I live in Northern VA, the world capital of data centers and can co-sign this. they bring absolutely nothing other than our electric bills have literally doubled in the last 24 or so months

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dlubarov an hour ago | parent [-]

Instead of banning datacenters, why not just increase electricity rates for industrial customers?

If they build datacenters anyway, there should be plenty of extra funding for power infrastructure.

	▲	bdangubic 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		makes too much sense but of course they’ll move to Texas then and you’d again be labeled (like poor Maine here) as unfriendly to businesses and god knows what else