Not sure it’ll be much more than a statement for Seattle proper. The datacenters are already a few hundred miles away in the center of Washington state. If they want to build more (and they do) they will be out there.
I want more infrastructure in Canada, but the location choice is still weird. It might be a good thing if this law will incentivize companies to take that into account.
It’s not feasible to build a data center in the metro, but you can go 20-30 miles out and they’re in the process of being built, including one in my hometown. I hate that I’m stuck rooting for an economic crash in order to stop all this, because we know definitively that our elected representatives don’t represent us.
Not sure it’ll be much more than a statement for Seattle proper. The datacenters are already a few hundred miles away in the center of Washington state. If they want to build more (and they do) they will be out there.
From what I’ve heard, Vancouver is in a similar boat as Seattle and we’re seeing proposals for two datacenters in the middle of the city.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-ai-data-centre-plan-vancouver-kamloops-9.7195426
I want more infrastructure in Canada, but the location choice is still weird. It might be a good thing if this law will incentivize companies to take that into account.
Yeah, that’s how it is here in Kansas City.
It’s not feasible to build a data center in the metro, but you can go 20-30 miles out and they’re in the process of being built, including one in my hometown. I hate that I’m stuck rooting for an economic crash in order to stop all this, because we know definitively that our elected representatives don’t represent us.