I agree with what you're saying, and I agree that there's a need to cut the use of polluting power-sources to run data-centres, but I really, really dislike the way it's being put across here.

Hyperbolic, emotionally charged phrasing like ``dirty CO2 spurting coal power plants'' makes it far, far too easy for people to dismiss the author of the piece as some sort of tree-hugging hippie wingnut with an agenda. What was wrong with keeping it simple with something like, ``coal-fired power plants''?