Are those same voters going to roundly reject steel mills or semiconductor fabs, which have a similar land/water/electricity footprint?

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stetrain 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How do the jobs and local economic benefit compare between a steel mill, a semiconductor fab, and a datacenter?

Are companies proposing steel mills and semiconductor fabs directly adjacent to existing residential neighborhoods?

Will those developments pay for the required infrastructure expansions, or get special deals to waive those costs in return for building in that community?

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gregates 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mostly yes. Everyone would also prefer that steel mills semiconductor fabs get built somewhere else, where they personally don't have to deal with any of the externalities.

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fdsjgfklsfd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But these voters don't know about that. They only care about what social media memes told them to care about.

	▲	gregates 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know why people voted for this. Probably something to do with all the big tech CEOs visibly paying bribes and tribute to the corrupt and massively unpopular president. I doubt the anti-data-center backlash is as extreme without that. But also just NIMBY. No one likes to live near industry. To get this big a backlash, you need a variety of reasons to oppose that appeal to a broad coalition of voters. Inevitably some of those reasons will be silly (a lot of people talked themselves into voting for a 2nd term for Trump, after all!).

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matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those will likely create lots of jobs. Local industry is good.