Bubble wailers zero sum games
The datacenter companies don't ask for anything from the locals. Don't need local workers, don't need local customers. They just want cheap real estate.
When a company wants to put a datacenter in your community, it's like saying, this is the most worthless place we could find. This thing could go anywhere, and this is somewhere, so we want to put it here.
At least anti-vaxxers (usually) just don't want to take vaccines themselves, not deny them to everyone else. These activists deny data centers to the rest of us and just decide to "don't believe" any inconvenient facts. Easy to do when the costs and benefits of that non-belief are externalized to the rest of us. And, don't tell me that it's just NIMBY. The first article talks about an activist that travels from town to town, trying to block data centers everywhere. It's ideological and discriminatory against the tech industry specifically: "while the quality of life concerns around [data centers] — that they are loud and annoying and ugly and consume resources — are very similar to other industrial projects,...opposition is so much more severe and widespread, even beyond the communities where the data centers are being built." Data centers are held to a discriminatory standard not applied to other industrial uses. Prejudice! CRIME!
