These things you list and more have a lot of power even if there's a slight chance of them being true. The average person doesn't see any benefit to a data cent

These things you list and more have a lot of power even if there's a slight chance of them being true. The average person doesn't see any benefit to a data center near them, so they're unwilling to even risk a single drawback. The best case as they see it is that a new data center will result in no net gain for themselves.