The mining datacenters beat the AI datacenters to the punch on that, actually:

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/bitcoin-mining-noise-driv...

Since they don't need a lot of bandwidth they prefer to build out in the middle of nowhere. Ai data centers and data centers In general can't do that cheaply because they need higher bandwidth so they need to be closer to fiber optic lines which are often close to communities