驳斥数据中心占用农田论：Andy Masley 的观点
Quoting Andy Masley
Andy Masley 驳斥了关于数据中心建设导致农田耗尽的论点。他指出，2000年至2024年间，美国农民自愿出售的农田总面积相当于科罗拉多州，是2028年数据中心预计占地总面积的77倍，但剩余土地的粮食产量却创新高，未影响粮食供应。然而，当劳登县一位农民仅以十倍农业价值出售几英亩普通草场给数据中心运营商时，却引发了过度担忧。Masley 认为，这种对数据中心用地的担忧是夸大其词的。
Simon Willison’s Weblog
4th May 2026
[...] Between 2000 and 2024, farmers sold in total a Colorado-sized chunk of land all on their own, 77 times all land on data center property in 2028, and grew more food than ever on what was left. None of this caused any problems for US food access.
And then, in the middle of all this, a farmer in Loudoun County sells a few acres of mediocre hay field to a hyperscaler for ten times its agricultural value, and the response is that we’re running out of farmland.
— Andy Masley, pushing back against the "land use" argument against data center construction
4th May 2026
来源：Simon Willison 博客 · simonwillison.net