GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
If they didn’t screw up locals power and water prices, they wouldn’t have so much popular blowback. Noise complaints have been a thing about crappy data centers for a long time. Two, employment is just a short surge to build and fit them out. Data centers aren’t employing people long term like non-automated manufacturing hubs. You’re not getting a hundreds of thousands member strong data center workers of America union to champion new builds. I haven’t come across a city where damn near everyone I meet works in relation to a data center. At least not yet. I do find that for damn near every sort of manufacturing/warehouse giant employers
If they didn’t screw up locals power and water prices, they wouldn’t have so much popular blowback. Noise complaints have been a thing about crappy data centers for a long time. Two, employment is just a short surge to build and fit them out. Data centers aren’t employing people long term like non-automated manufacturing hubs. You’re not getting a hundreds of thousands member strong data center workers of America union to champion new builds. I haven’t come across a city where damn near everyone I meet works in relation to a data center. At least not yet. I do find that for damn near every sort of manufacturing/warehouse giant employers