The new study from Data Center Watch found that key projects were blocked or delayed in Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia and South Dakota, among other states. The researchers tracked “active opposition efforts” in 17 states, with 53 different groups taking action against 30 projects. Those opposition groups were successful in blocking or delaying two out of every three projects they protested, the report said, “underscoring the growing impact of organized local resistance.”
“Opposition is cross-partisan and geographically mixed,” the researchers wrote. “Blue and red states alike are tightening rules or rethinking incentives; legislators in places like Virginia, Minnesota, and South Dakota are scrutinizing subsidies, grid impacts, and local authority, often cutting across traditional party lines.”
NotAnotherEmpire on
They create very few permanent jobs and raise electricity rates unless they actually cover their own costs, which they don’t usually propose, funny enough.
ImWrong_OnTheNet on
Sure, it’s a very “NIMBY” stance. Broadly, data centers will be useful to improve blah blah blah, so that’s good. However, it will raise power costs and be detrimental to the local environment and its inhabitants. I am staunchly on the side of not fucking up my water supply so bezos can research better ways to take my money
Clean-Selection-1442 on
I’m not categorically against building out data centers. But they need to be public infrastructure, not private. Computing power is going to be a key strategic resource going forward, and these tech companies want us to build it for them. Fuck that. They can pay rent to use them, and the people can actually get a return on their tax dollars.
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The new study from Data Center Watch found that key projects were blocked or delayed in Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia and South Dakota, among other states. The researchers tracked “active opposition efforts” in 17 states, with 53 different groups taking action against 30 projects. Those opposition groups were successful in blocking or delaying two out of every three projects they protested, the report said, “underscoring the growing impact of organized local resistance.”
“Opposition is cross-partisan and geographically mixed,” the researchers wrote. “Blue and red states alike are tightening rules or rethinking incentives; legislators in places like Virginia, Minnesota, and South Dakota are scrutinizing subsidies, grid impacts, and local authority, often cutting across traditional party lines.”
They create very few permanent jobs and raise electricity rates unless they actually cover their own costs, which they don’t usually propose, funny enough.
Sure, it’s a very “NIMBY” stance. Broadly, data centers will be useful to improve blah blah blah, so that’s good. However, it will raise power costs and be detrimental to the local environment and its inhabitants. I am staunchly on the side of not fucking up my water supply so bezos can research better ways to take my money
I’m not categorically against building out data centers. But they need to be public infrastructure, not private. Computing power is going to be a key strategic resource going forward, and these tech companies want us to build it for them. Fuck that. They can pay rent to use them, and the people can actually get a return on their tax dollars.