I think it’s a topic that’s scary to many and this datacenter-to-be, or the local banker, just happens to be what they can easily protest.
Literally anything that they could build there other than a data center would have a greater negative impact on the environment and a far less positive economic impact.
I could build a concrete crushing plant there.
Pollution, ok, regular industry generates more. But property tax revenue? Why would DCs provide more property tax revenue?
It's funny that this is such a common takeaway from 2008. The bankers are bad because people lost their homes.
It's the right guilty party and the right victim but not the right crime.
The bad thing was bankers irresponsibly putting those people in homes in the first place. The people were always going to lose those homes because they couldn't afford them.