"The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting data center," he said. Willie Nelson has published an open letter saying communities need to fight against data centres and their environmental destruction. “The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter).” In Ireland, data centres consume 23 percent of the nation’s metered electricity, according to a report from the Central Statistics Office. He formed Farm Aid alongside John Mellencamp and Neil Young in 1985.