Data center proponents generally argue that the facilities will provide jobs and sustain the American lead in the global AI race. Opponents, meanwhile, urge that the infrastructure projects are associated with dangerous pollution, spiking energy costs, and loss of natural land. And then, of course, there’s the noise.
“We don’t need a data center in a community, let alone two hyperscale data centers in a community of less than a population of 12,000 people,”
Or the fact that there’s a serious affordable housing shortage and public infrastructure is falling apart, and addressing those things would mean construction jobs.
But no. You don’t get to have a house. You get to live in a slum next to a screaming data center.