[yusefnapora]

Presumably Suzie also serves the people in her community who want tanned skin but don't like the sun. A data center offers nothing of value to the community it's embedded in - neither jobs nor any useful product or service. All the benefits accrue to the owners, and the very real costs are paid by the people breathing in the fumes from the gas turbines, or paying an extra hundred bucks a month for power.

If you don't understand why people don't want them, you're probably trying not to. It's not that hard.

[esikich]

A data center offers software development/infrastructure where people know it or not. Just because they aren't the first order users doesn't mean it's not beneficial. How is a machine shop beneficial to 65 year old Janet?

[hdgvhicv]

Machine shop employs more local people per unit of resource. Far more.

[esikich]

Oh my god, no one measures this though. You'd have to be anti-bookstore if that's your metric.

[hdgvhicv]

By what metric?