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skybriantoday at 6:26 PM0 repliesview on HN

If stopped before construction, the organizations funding the data centers still have the investment funds and can build in a different location or, worst case, give the money back to investors.

Assuming demand keeps up, owners of already-existing data centers continue to get windfall profits.

It would be like what happens when housing prices go up due to lack of supply.