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>There are tons of examples now of data centers harming communities.

Are there tons like "there are tons of sand grains on the beach", or are there tons like "tons of people run a marathon every year"?

Because as far as I can tell, there are a small handful of adverse datacenter stories that get repeated over and over. What there definitely are "tons" of, are datacenters that people aren't even aware of being right in their backyard for years.

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I think it is worth noting that older data centers were not materially moving the electrical grid. That Utah data center is planning to use as much power as the entire state.

Regardless, it still comes down to: things are bad and unaffordable. The powers that be keep claiming that AI is about to take our jobs and end the world. Why wouldn't people be mad?

What’s the acceptable number of people harmed? We don’t really need to wait until it’s statistically significant to worry about it.

Statistically isn't it something like 1 death per $50k profit?

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