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by marcyb5st 1 hour ago
And especially terrible for the communities that have to live with gas turbines or other local power generators as neighbors. Noise and air pollution constantly [1].

But fuck them, they are poor people so we don't care about them /s .

Additionally, people against data centers are accused of being paid by China [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-mus... [2] https://fortune.com/2026/06/10/kevin-oleary-trump-administra...

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It wasn't long ago that every city had a coal power station right in the center of it. Things aren't nearly as bad as you suggest.
you can't put an ADU, yet, you can put in 200MW generating capacity.