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Let’s be a huge burden to local utilities that prices skyrocket, make everyone else pay for the infrastructure cost, and then act surprised when people vote to
by itopaloglu83 1y ago
Let’s be a huge burden to local utilities that prices skyrocket, make everyone else pay for the infrastructure cost, and then act surprised when people vote to block us.
Yes, we do need the data centers, but people have a saying too.
- yostrovs 1y agoThis article claims that's not happening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/25/data-centers-electricity-prices-rise/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/10/2...
- rcxdude 1y agoThere is a fairly obvious conflict of interest with that article.
- Yeul 1y agoI don't mind Amazon using the water if they pay for it just like the rest of us. Unfortunately companies tend to negotiate special deals. And for what? How many local people actually get jobs in a date centre? A few security guards, cleaners and gardeners? I've seen these things they do everything remote and if that doesn't work they fly in a team.
- rangestransform 1y agoEven them paying for it shifts the demand curve and makes it expensive for everyone else in the short term, and local government will abuse bureaucracy to make damn sure “short term” is long
- egorfine 1y ago> Yes, we do need the data centers, but people have a saying too. Think of the airports. Do we need them? Absolutely. Do people have a say? Yes they do. And that's the problem: they will always say sure but not in my backyard. Obviously no one wants an airport nearby, that's understandable. So in the end expanding an airport (and thus economy) becomes basically impossible. But in case of airport there is at least a clear case to make. DataCenters? Not so much. Laymen are unable to make an educated decisions here hence they will always vote no.