It's incredible how much traction the completely fabricated anti-data center propaganda has gotten, given it is false in all dimensions (uses hardly any water, decreases local energy bills, don't make noise).

The interest groups opposing them will do anything, including harming economic growth, jobs, great products, and life-saving research — as long as it kneecaps their rivals.

A datacenter was built a couple hundred feet from my apartment complex around 2013-2014. Absolutely none of your comment would have even remotely held true at the time, and my family moved away as a direct result.

Assuming positive intent, what’s different nowadays that makes it all different? It would actually make me pretty happy to hear about the incredible leaps and bounds that’ve been taken.

our energy bills went up 30% YOY and we are nowhere near a data center. It’s easy to see why people don’t like this

> It's incredible how much traction the completely fabricated anti-data center propaganda has gotten

Agreed - here in Australia one of the big TV networks was heavily advertising a story last week about the big bad data centres coming to suburbia. You can be critical of Australia's local governments all you want, but at least in the big cities, no one is going without water or power for any appreciable amount of time due to data centres or anything else.

Who are the interest groups you’re referring to?

I have been sending more letters to the editor and politicians than ever before.

A senator down south has been repeating the noise concern trolling from the USA, but wont even go to his local DC <3 minutes from his office to have a listen. I saw someone defend the noise complaints by saying "Oh but we are getting one of those gas turbine ones" and when I looked at the project it was being built really far away from habitation to take advantage/mutually invest in Gas and Renewable power nearby. (The gas being used as a method to fill a pumped hydro project). Both power sources were approved before the DC.

You just cant win. The stupid is the product.

It really is just a case of opportunistic politicians feeding the mob.

Similar to the trajectory of nuclear power which lost public approval for reasons that are not entirely rational.