alt Hacker NewsThe reason these data centers are getting built in place people don’t want them is because the towns are broke.
The city councils know it, but the residents don’t.
The entire point of the last 10 years of Strong Towns was talking about municipal finance, infrastructure costs, and the insolvency of the American suburban town.
Bullshit. The proposed data center in Utah is projected to use more electricity that what the entire state already uses, on an area larger than Manhattan.
The entire state of Utah is not broke. Box Elder County is largely a rural community but it is also not broke.