No disagree. I think all enterprises that come with community borne costs (noise, heat, energy use, road use, construction & infrastructure, state incentives) and benefits (tax revenue, jobs) should have some level of accounting. It would be wrong to say the negs always outweigh the positives, thats not the point here. The point is that a bunch of cost in DC relating to power and cooling wind up having impact on the community at large.

I've been told in other (non US) economies, decisions to site hyperscaler DCs has had downstream impacts on power costs and longterm power planning. The infra to make a lot of power appear at a site, means the same capex and inputs cannot be used to supply power to towns and villages. There's a social opportunity loss in hosting the DC because the power supply doesn't magicly make more transformers and wires and syncons appear on the market: Prices for these things are going up because of a worldwide shortage.

Its like the power version of worldwide RAM pricing.