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		themihai on April 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's controversial groundwater withdrawal spar... The government could change the economics with a tax on cooling down the servers with water so I believe the morality can beat pure economics.

URSpider94 on April 23, 2017 [–]

Even in this case, the business is operating on an economic basis. The state has just adjusted the costs to demand a different economic outcome.

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