>>“- There must be community benefits agreements negotiated transparently with the local community

- Any new datacenters being built cannot raise utility rates

- Some of the revenue generated by the datacenter must be set aside to improve power reliability

- Datacenters must not touch our waterways at all

- Datacenters must be built using union labor”

Deal. This sounds like a great list. I would add, “no property tax breaks”.

Just get the state to pass this as a law and set appropriate enforcement mechanisms and then just let data centers go ham if they meet this criteria?

No more “per community meetings” and municipal haggling (see: corrupting) local governments. Buy the land build the data centers. The municipality can figure out the exact benefits that works for that community from the giant tax coffers.

This seems imminently fair to me.