Good for them that they won’t take tax breaks or pillage the local community electric coffers.. good, that’s lovely. As a sort of “absolute lowest bar to clear and it’s disgusting it even needs to be said much less that they expect praise for it” sort of thing.
What about the noise? What about the infrastructure upgrades and maintenance (roads, water infrastructure, etc.) and services (fire, police, EMS, etc.). What about water use? What about the massive eyesore these buildings literally always are? What about construction disruptions, and pollution/environmental damage? What’s being removed to make space for this waste of resources? Is the land desirable for the community itself? If it’s trash buildings, can the community repurpose the land itself into a marketplace or third space or something actually beneficial? If it’s raw nature, that’s a huge cost, development potential aside.
We don’t need ai, not even a tiny itty bitty little bit, so it’s all well and good that those two things won’t impact people, but what about the rest of it? The dozens and dozens of externalized costs they don’t mention. It’s not like these places are employing a thousand people or anything, so the tradeoff to the locals for all the other stuff this data center almost certainly won’t be paying a fair share for is not worth it at all.