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It's FUD. There's literally more than a dozen different ways to produce hydrogen.
Yes, right now, the cheapest options are some of the "dirtier" ones, however the cost to produce zero emission hydrogen is coming down rapidly and fossil fuel produced hydrogen is going up in price.
The two are expected to cross over in the next few years and green hydrogen, typically using solar power to split seawater, will be the cheapest way to produce hydrogen and nobody in their right mind would get it from any of the more expensive sources.
Right now there is nobody in the world doing large scale zero emission hydrogen production. However a bunch of massive hydrogen production plants are being built right now and clean hydrogen is expected to become widely available starting next year. Several of the plants opening in the next couple of years will produce hundreds of tons of hydrogen per day. With zero emissions.
Keep in mind this is a trial of a fuel-cell powered data center. They're just testing the technology to see how well it works, and if it works well, by the time they actually start deploying it widely they will be using hydrogen that has zero carbon emissions.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/oil-and-gas/our-insights/the-clean-hydrogen-opportunity-for-hydrocarbon-rich-countries
This is basically how all green energy ideas start. Wind and solar power went through the same thing. What we're seeing are people who dismiss new ideas, either because they're climate change deniers or because they're outdated and don't want to see change they don't understand.