> There are no meaningful regulations in building them

If a municipality doesn’t have emissions, noise, water use, etc regulations, that’s a serious failure in governance.

We don’t need nor want the word “data center” in regulations anymore than we need the word “abattoir.”

The names of the things we build change all the time. Their impact on their communities don’t.

We need to regulate impact, not the name or type of business.

If we did, nobody would know or care about data centers and they wouldn’t be affecting their communities, because they’d be operating under established impact regulations.