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But it’s not a drop in the bucket… They try to claim it is, by comparing their usage from 2-4 years ago, which has exponentially increased over the last 18 months, to national or global usage, but they completely gloss over;

A single Meta data center in Newton County, Georgia, for instance, now uses about 10 percent of the entire county’s water supply

This is a shit article, from what’s clear to be a shit author Kyle Orland, Ars’ Senior Gaming Editor.

As an american, at this point in time: Idiocracy.

Any use? Always! Exercising your brain will never be a bad investment!

But which language really depends on why you want to learn and what you want to do with it, though! Coming at it from a ‘languages with an abundance of learning resources’ perspective (sorry not exhaustive):

• You want to program devices; LEDs, microcontrollers, sensors, etc? Python!

• You want to make a pretty website? JavaScript with the React framework!

• You want to prototype out a monolithicly big web app quickly? Ruby on Rails!

• You want to make infographics? R!

• You want to start a career in Software Engineering? JavaScript with Node, Go, Rust, or C# with dot-net framework, and many more*. Also, abort, don’t do this, AI is decimating the job seeking field right now.

So, it really depends on what YOU want to do with it. As others have hinted, a programming language is often just ‘syntactic sugar’ to accomplish the same programming concepts. Most all the modern languages can do the same things, just using different function-names/words/syntax. So as a learner, just frankly ignore all the “{X} is best at {Y}” arguments, including those above, and instead: concentrate on the concepts (like loops, recursion, associations, type control, etc, etc, etc.) over the specific language, first. Good luck OP!