<story><title>Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pushback</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/facebook-owner-meta-suspends-zeewolde-netherlands-data-center-due-to-political-pushback/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrsuprawsm</author><text>If Meta were to build enough new, carbon neutral, and green energy facilities to supply triple the energy costs of their facility and sell the remainder to the grid, I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone would have much of a problem with the facility.&lt;p&gt;As it stands, the data centre will use up much of the green energy that NL has created over the past few years, purely for Facebook to... sell more ads. That&amp;#x27;s not palatable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misja111</author><text>The suspension of Meta&amp;#x27;s data center had very little to do with the fact that it was for Facebook. The main reason is that NL has several of those data centers already and has become aware that they need huge amounts of energy and give very few jobs for it in return.
Especially the current time of energy shortage has made those data centers unpopular.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to political pushback</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/facebook-owner-meta-suspends-zeewolde-netherlands-data-center-due-to-political-pushback/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrsuprawsm</author><text>If Meta were to build enough new, carbon neutral, and green energy facilities to supply triple the energy costs of their facility and sell the remainder to the grid, I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone would have much of a problem with the facility.&lt;p&gt;As it stands, the data centre will use up much of the green energy that NL has created over the past few years, purely for Facebook to... sell more ads. That&amp;#x27;s not palatable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>&amp;gt; As it stands, the data centre will use up much of the green energy that NL has created over the past few years, purely for Facebook to... sell more ads. That&amp;#x27;s not palatable.&lt;p&gt;Why do people so strongly critique Facebook for selling ads but not businesses from buying them?&lt;p&gt;For instance [0]&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The story of Ramon van Meer. He runs a company that sells ramps that help wiener dogs get up and down off the couch. For years, his company reached its niche audience through targeted Facebook ads. Then Apple changed the privacy settings on the iPhone, and suddenly those Facebook ads stopped working.&lt;p&gt;Why don&amp;#x27;t small &amp;amp; medium business owners like Ramon get critiqued for feeding the beast?&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;1087425495&amp;#x2F;tech-giants-and-tiny-dogs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;1087425495&amp;#x2F;tech-giants-and-ti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>