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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ok, but they give sources and get into the numbers, and out of all the articles on the first page of seach results about the comparison that I looked at it seemed like the best source. The point isn't that almonds are worse than data centers, I just don't think the specific claim that almonds use less water than data centers is true and so I am refuting it. I didn't find any sources that tried to support that claim, but I'd read them if you know of any.