What a load of shit. I have relatives in Ashburn VA, the data center capital of the world, and none of these negative effects are anything but NIMBY bullshit.

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autoexec 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I'm going to believe the many many documented cases of these problems in VA alone over your non-example

https://www.businessinsider.com/living-next-to-data-centers-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/data-centers-northern-virgin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opinion/data-centers-ai-a...

https://virginiamercury.com/2026/02/19/legislature-considers...

https://www.wdbj7.com/2026/02/04/virginia-lawmakers-look-add...

https://news.vcu.edu/article/northern-virginia-data-center-a...

	▲	terminalshort 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OK, so datacenters are turning it into an unliveable shithole... > Loudon counts itself among the fastest-growing counties in America with a population over 100,000. Homeowners have watched the median sales price rise more than 70% over the past decade. Well, there you go, right from one of your ragebait journalism articles. People who are bitter and hate their lives are always looking for something to blame for it, and the most popular thing to blame is the new thing that is in the news. And the click whores that some people call "journalists" will be right there to meet the demand. But it's all bullshit as the massive rise in home values in the area reveals the truth.