> I'm surprised that the rust belt hasn't seen more uptake

Oracle's doing something just outside the Milwaukee metro. I'd imagine there are others. Datacenter buildout is wildly unpopular around the Great Lakes, and that's not new. For Wisconsinites specifically, the whole thing has a whiff of Foxconn about it.

For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_Tec...