Environment & Energy

Imagine bulldozing block upon block in an urban area. Meta famously compared the size of one of their proposed data centers to the island of Manhattan.

Naturally, they had no plans to build it in Manhattan, but can you imagine buying up all of that land? Demolishing all of those buildings?
(They’ve since announced an addition to this behemoth, which is roughly twice the size of "Central Park.")

You’d probably need to start with eminent domain, involving countless court proceedings…

Much easier to go out into the rural areas and take farmland or forest.