Comment by carefree-bob

People are worried about their power and water costs rising.

I think this is a legit worry. The fact of the matter is that local governments often don't care about their constituencies and sell them out in order to boost tax revenue of new business moving in, and this creates a race to the bottom.

I would love a situation in which datacenters also paid for their own power upgrades and infrastructure so that locals did not experience high bills. That would be the best case scenario.

But barring that, banning the data center seems like a legit second base case scenario.