IMO it's probably better for everyone, including the environment, to concentrate these data centers in random out of the way places rather than trying to, say,

IMO it's probably better for everyone, including the environment, to concentrate these data centers in random out of the way places rather than trying to, say, further cram them into pieces of San Francisco or Seattle. People like to live by nature, and the nice places are already super impacted. These centers aren't going to make a meaningful difference vs your average industrial factory, solar farm, farm farm, etc. But spreading them out will mean less efficient cooling, transportation of goods and labor, less efficient routing, etc. and have climatic impacts. The industrialization of the countryside is also providing jobs in areas that would typically be extremely depressed or resort to resource extraction economies to survive.