> To me all parties involved seemed pretty reasonable, the previous administration was favourable to the project, but got subsequently voted out of office. Now

> To me all parties involved seemed pretty reasonable, the previous administration was favourable to the project, but got subsequently voted out of office. Now they just want time to make sure that they didn't get voted out because of that project. Facebook seems to understand. I'm assuming your comment is in good faith, and you're not from Facebook's PR team. I don't think you're aware of the history of the case. Local opposition to the project is nothing new - starting with how Facebook hiding its identity with the locals. The full list of reasons is much more than I can comfortably type, I'd recommend reading this wired article instead - https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-dutch-data-center/ https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-dutch-data-center/