What’s the situation with data centers in your area?

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Adorable_Dust3799@reddit

I'm high desert outside of san diego and they're pushing one here. High fire risk, low water availability, power isn't especially stable or reliable and it's hot af. Sorry idaho, you're looking like a much better aalternative

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MetalEnthusiast83@reddit

There’s some regular data centers around that have been here for decades that nobody cares about. Not aware of any AI centers in the area. I’m in southern CT.

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Sadimal@reddit

There is a major AI data center in Hartford but they focus more on research and workforce training. They're also upgrading the data center in Trumbull for higher capacity AI applications.

They're also building on in Kenilworth.

Lamont and his administration are very pro data centers.

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PeanutterButter101@reddit

We mainly have them in Loudoun County but they're also peppered throughout the rest of the region. They're a big part of our economy.

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Subvet98@reddit

There are a few in my state. I find the DC uproar interesting. We have 5k data centers in the country. Most built before AI was a thing. But now people care about it.

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sean8877@reddit

Data centers for AI use a lot more resources than traditional data centers, that's what the uproar is about:

https://www.engadget.com/why-do-ai-data-centers-use-so-many-resources-171500010.html

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zeik55@reddit

Many being built in WI

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MountainTomato9292@reddit

There’s a huge xAi center here, and when they proposed it Elon said he was also going to build a wastewater treatment plant so they could use that for cooling instead of using our good drinking water from the aquifer. But surprising no one, the lying piece of shit turned out to be a lying piece of shit, so now they are just proposing more data centers and my utility bills over the last 6 months have ranged from $450-$850 a month.

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Justmakethemoney@reddit

The county board just approved one despite huge community pushback. There’s a couple more bureaucratic steps they have to go through before actually starting construction, so hopefully they dont get approval.

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ITrCool@reddit

None in my area that I know of. For us it’s warehouses and distribution centers popping up everywhere.

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MrLongWalk@reddit

It’s a total non-starter, thankfully

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wieldymouse@reddit

Data centers should be required to use sustainable energy.

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GeckoCowboy@reddit

I’m in New Hampshire, one was recently proposed and faced major push back, and the proposal was cancelled.

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PineapplePza766@reddit

Same here in nc too the bad part is where they are wanting to put them the cities are already encroaching on local rural communities/ their water supplies and we’ve been in a drought so local organizations have big influence over the rural communities telling big cities like Charlotte to fuck off

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Foxy_locksy1704@reddit

Same exact thing here in Colorado. We just had one where the city government and the residents were against it because we also are experiencing a major drought we had very little snow this year and we depend on our spring run off from the mountains to supply our water and the water in our rivers that impact not just our state but some of our neighboring states.

People said nope we need to conserve water, if we aren’t allowed to water our grass because of drought there shouldn’t be a data center using what little resources we do have right now.

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Kingsolomanhere@reddit

My part of Indiana voted no no no.

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Sprucecaboose2@reddit

My city just approved one in spite of pretty heavy local resistance. It'll be a great time...

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InterestingMindset@reddit

Farmers are fighting to keep their land and I hope they do. Food very important and people living in a home also important.

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bigedthebad@reddit

Small town in the Texas panhandle. They are building a data center 30 miles away and our town is flooded with RVs. As far as I know, this has not been a problem. In fact, they have been tearing down some old dilapidated houses to make room for more RVs.

I'm wondering what happens when the building is finished and those jobs go away.

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ThingFuture9079@reddit

There was one that's going to be built in a neighborhood about 30 minutes outside of Akron and a lot of residents had a protest about it. There was a lso a group that had places throughout the state where you could sign a petition to ban data centers.

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Reaganson@reddit

AOL started in the County where I raised my family. It was mostly farm or dairy land back then, but the development of homes in the east part was underway, what with the population growing and homes needed. But at the same time, data centers were being built. Most internet travel of the country passes through this area now, and data centers, housing, and the support infrastructure for people developed rapidly since the 80s, and almost all of the Eastern part of the county has been developed.

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balthisar@reddit

Ignorant people keep objecting to them. No, they’re not going to drain the Great Lakes. Look, all land use has negatives, but at least, don’t make up stupid facts, and capitalism will let these things fail on their own when the bubble bursts.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

Sane people keep objecting to them.

Ignorant people keep promoting them.

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rrsafety@reddit

There will definitely have and have-nots. Localities that welcome data centers that bring their own energy and power stations will do exceedingly well compared to those communities who rejected outright.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

Localities that reject data centers will do far, far better than ones blighted with the menace of data centers.

They destroy green space, don't provide any meaningful amount of jobs, and create noise pollution, and that's before you get to issues of water and power consumption.

There's no reason, whatsoever, for communities to allow data centers on their land. The push for them is entirely tech bros paying bribes to politicians to cram it through over public objections.

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scipio0421@reddit

Oklahoma here. We had the city council approve one in my city directly against residents' express wishes.

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NoNeedForAName@reddit

They're getting some talk in Tennessee, for sure. The TVA just instructed local water companies to start working on plans to basically make sure that the increased water consumption is fully paid for by the data centers rather than being passed along to regular consumers in the form of rate hikes, etc.

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Huge_Monk8722@reddit

No data center signs everywhere.

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PitchBlackBones@reddit

Missouri appears to be drowning in proposed data centers. Given how the government is intentionally overriding the will of the people, this doesn’t surprise me whatsoever.

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MajesticBread9147@reddit

The county next to mine has more datacenters than anywhere else in the world, and they are building datacenters in nearby counties where land has been otherwise unused. They've been building them here long before anybody was talking about datacenters.

They pay a good amount of local taxes, which makes the property taxes lower on individuals, but that only really benefits landowners.

The biggest complaint is generally aesthetics. The local impact is pretty much the same as a factory; a few dozen people watching over lots of machines.

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o93mink@reddit

If you live in an apartment, you pay your landlord’s property taxes through your rent. Lower property taxes -> lower rent

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aightrampitup@reddit

One already underway, although it's in an industrial park. Might be the only one around here, there's a moratorium on new data centers in my county for the foreseeable future.

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Fuckspez42@reddit

I live in northern Virginia, and we’re absolutely lousy with them here. There are roads you can travel down where you’d swear you were in Soviet Russia: just endless big, flat, drab, windowless buildings as far as the eye can see.

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Bucket_Of_Magic@reddit

A lot of people are against it, but I have seen articles that the CEO of nvidia wants to start installing individual nodes. Next to peoples houses like an AC unit, and they'll pay you per month for it like 250$, including subsidizing your electric bill. So it looks to be going that route potentially.

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Silly_Personality_73@reddit

Over 40 data centers in Hillsboro Oregon and more coming. Some families have recently been kicked out of nearly brand-new homes to make way for them.

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Corporate_M0nster@reddit

We got railroaded into them and now it’s a little too late. Cut tax breaks on new ones but our electric bills have already doubled and that’s after allowing our electric monopoly to go crazy with price hikes for infrastructure upgrades that never happened.

We just love supporting unprofitable businesses apparently.

3-4 years ago my bill was max $150 now I’m using less electric and I’m usually in the $300–$350 range. There’s only so much I can cut out to keep the bill down unless I want to keep my house at 90 degrees and throw out the fridge.

At this point there’s outrage. Property taxes are sky high, we’re paying their operational costs and our state government is sitting on their hands.

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Dynablade_Savior@reddit

One was proposed and shot down in a suburb of the city I live in

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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess-@reddit

There’s talk of building one near me, people are mainly against it, and it hasn’t happened so far. I hope it doesn’t.

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UpbeatPhilosophySJ@reddit

We have the most in the entire country in our area (Santa Clara) nobody notices or cares.

Definitely some strange astroturf event in the last month to scare those in the Midwest and South to vote for certain people.

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Silently-Snarking@reddit

My state was able to lobby against it and get the proposal for one withdrawn!!

I don’t see northern New England taking well to them