Its a double edged sword. yes, it stifles renewable energy innovation, but those rules are usually put in place in a more general sense, and you would really want them in place if next door was suddenly announced to be a landfill, or chemical plant, or a chicken farm, or an xAI datacenter....

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ntonozzi 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The UK is begging for people to build datacenters: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-...

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hdgvhicv 4 hours ago | parent [-]

National governments maybe. Local ones aren’t, and it’s those that fill with nimbys and maintain the majority of control over planning

	▲	nxobject 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Everyone wants the datacenter somewhere in their country for sovereignty... just not next to them. Quelle surprise. At this point you may as well build supermarkets on top of them just to sell 'em to people.