The new industrial revolution is already here
Drive an hour outside almost any American city right now, and you will find a town that is quietly being remade. Property values are climbing in places they have no business climbing. Old neighbours are selling and moving on. A vast, low building with no windows is erected on what was once a family farm.
These are data centres. They are a driving force in the economy of the future, but we have yet to evaluate the goods they purport to provide.
When the Catholic mind evaluates anything like this, it reaches first for the principle of the common good. The common good is a good that is genuinely shared and benefits the whole society. It is distinct from the greater good, in which individuals are made to sacrifice for benefits they themselves never enjoy.
That distinction is critical when evaluating these centres…
thank you for writing about this- it is very concerning
I have to create an account, they say, to read that article. I would rather not.