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it is a case of socialize the losses, privatize the gains.

regarding tax payers, the biggest sins of new data centers seem to be: * driving power bills parabolic due to no mandated investment in power generation or delivery grid * consuming water from the city system far beyond normal usage; water bills go up for normal people * pollution; xAI in memphis illegally uses gas turbines with no pollution controls; air is very dirty around their data center; data centers apparently are noisy in places

legislation is needed to force costs currently being borne by normal people back on to the data centers reaping all of the profit.