Quite the contrary. I’m actually more familiar with hyperscalers than the average person for a number of reasons that aren’t worth getting into.

Fair to say there’s a lot of misinformation about data centers, that I think in many ways is driven by people’s fear of AI. It also doesn’t help that data centers have opened a lot of eyes to how poor our utility infrastructure is and how corrupt many local governments are.

A lot of the concerns people seem to have about datacenters is largely solved by local governments creating and enforcing sensible building codes, tax policy, and utility regulation. The uncomfortable truth, however, is that the citizens themselves hold the greatest responsibility for not being engaged in their communities, educating themselves and holding their elected officials accountable.