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The obvious ones are noise (well documented for crypto, not 100% on data center but wouldn't be shocked.) and electricity rates going up for everyone because the data center hogs the juice. Less obvious is the lack of jobs it would bring. Construction would be nice but once its operational? Dozenish jobs or something paltry like that.
Several data canters have been built in smaller communities in Sweden, who with the promise of jobs granted the DC operator low electricity bills and other advantages.
The jobs never really materialized, which as an IT guy makes perfect sense.
Once the DC is built and integrated in the infrastructure of the operator, 98% of all tasks can be done remotely.
You don't really need to go into the DC and touch the servers all that often.
Indeed, in a cloud datacenter you just mark a given server as having failed and once a large enough number has, a work order is generated to replace them in a batch.
Amazon’s datacenter list leaked a while back, it’s a lot larger than you’d think and it was also very interesting how many of them are marked as totally unmanned.