Why would people move to jurisdictions that are building AI datacenters? It seems like people would move away from them.

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ianm218 an hour ago | parent [-]

People move towards places with growing economic opportunities.

New York heavily restricts construction and infrastructure projects of all kinds. The tech and finance elite will stay here but normal people who are trying to make a decent living in construction and similar trades will end up following opportunities.

NYC population is declining after all [1] largely because the city would rather treat housing as a scarce resource for them to divy up than something to increase the supply of.

[1]. https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/new-york-city-population...

	▲	bilbo0s 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		People move towards places with growing economic opportunities. I hope people aren't expecting data centers to provide "growing economic opportunities". That's not really what data centers are about. Data centers are infrastructure in the same way nuclear plants or canals are infrastructure. Water infrastructure carries the Colorado to Phoenix and other areas in the West. Unfortunately, this does little for people in Colorado. The idea is that the benefit of feeding water to people throughout the west is worth the cost of building and maintaining extensive water infrastructure. AI infrastructure should be thought of in the same manner. If you're going to have a requirement that data centers provide all these jobs in the places they're built, then data centers are never going to be able to get out from under the PR hammer. And most citizens are going to continue to be disappointed. Because they're thinking about it wrong.