Or, if energy/space isn't of huge concern to you: a lot of foundries with quality, and just dump anything that's not legendary into the lava.

Well, I guess we'll have a small mod that reenables it for those interested; and the standard game can be the guide on gameplay balance.

In fact, since they have some rule based system (if bioenegineering or security, route to degraded model) it would be almost trivial to add 'user has filed feedback' to it.

Not saying this is what happens, but just that it's not as insane as it sounds.

The debate is completely based on emotion and anger right now, so sharing information will only give the emotional/angry folks more mud to throw with. The majority of people has no clue about how to put things like energy use and water use in perspective, and they're also not interested in doing that. Because they have decided to green-wash their AI-fears as environmental fears... which is a big fat joke because datacenters aren't significant polluters or consumers compared to almost all other industries.

Look, I get it, many people are afraid of the societal impacts of AI, or distrust it in another way. But let's be honest and focus on _that_ instead of naively acting as if our anti-datacenter sentiment comes from environmental concerns (the last few decades have shown we don't GAF about the environment).

It was especially nice during a bike trip along the Rhine, I listened to a lot of the history of the industrial area and its cities.