Look Garry has suffered from deep LLM-psychosis, but he's right here. The fight against data centers is mostly fear-mongering from foreign disinformation aimed at stunting the American economy. The way to solve this is NOT blocking data centers, it's making sure your local bylaws: * Require specific caps on noise pollution including at set hours * Require their to not be external light pollution * Require an assessment of cooling systems to show the center is using re-circulated/re-claimed water with zero chemical change in output, and 100% of input flows back out. * Require electrical offsets like solar. * Consider requiring that the company has to meet a minimum reinvestment in public goods regionally. 99% of data centers meet this requirements. The 1% that don't should absolutely be axed. The other 99% bring good paying jobs all across America. Mid-western factory towns don't need to build a smog producing factory to have good paying blue collar jobs. 99% of data centers can run quietly, do not waste water, do not need to emit a ton of light, and don't have an impact on local electrical costs. We solve this with responsible policy that keeps us protecting our cities while being innovation forward. Not by going to either extreme.