Water consumption and localized atmospheric heating have been cited elsewhere as drawbacks. There have been some articles citing noise/vibration pollution (subsonic?) but I'm not completely convinced on that front. Personally, I would add electric grid load to the list.

In the worst case, if your local municipality sides with business over the little guy, that means potential brownouts and water shortages for you.

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HDThoreaun 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

Farming consumes more water than datacenters. Infrasound is pseudoscience. The biggest issue imo is that they use a ton of electricity and this country has forgotten how to expand electricity supply so prices go up. The solution to that is to create more electricity though, not ban datacenters

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nemomarx 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

Make the companies constructing a DC pay a bond or whatever for the new power plant, and don't give them tax subsidies. Easy enough?

	▲	grocery_stores 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The companies building data centers have made it clear they're willing to pay to build out the grid. The problem isn't money, it's bureaucracy.