In most communities these days you’d have better luck proposing to build a toxic waste processing facility than a data center.
Until the company behind the data center sues the small town, who can’t afford the fight, and are forced to roll over. That seems to be what happened in Michigan.
https://ferc.gov/ https://nofrackedgasinmass.com/massachusetts-pipelines/
After how many years of making it through the court system? Because 5 years of delay all but guarantees that the potential builder is no longer interested.
Of course building datacenters is absolutely not what eminent domain is for, but rules don't apply anymore, so they'll probably do it anyway until the supreme court stops them.