alt Hacker NewsI would have agreed with you a couple years ago... but not in the last year or so? People complaining about change and construction near them is a real factor. We can't even build houses during a housing crisis because of NIMBY nonsense and a wildly bloated set of rules for what and where you can build stuff.
See that detail of "near them"? Yeah it's a crucial one.
For some reason data center companies keep wanting to build data centers near existing utilities, near existing roads and transport infrastructure, and near existing electrical utilities.
Not in the middle of a desert. Or the antarctic. Or decommissioned oil fields.