Two things can be true. The data centers can be driving up electricity costs, causing pollution, planning issues, and computer hardware shortages _and_ people can be finding the tools useful.
Data centers should at least be autonomous for energy generation and cooling systems, in the current utilities landscape in US the energy company dictates price mostly by demand and Big Tech will always have enough money to pay, the water company will have to clean more freshwater and in dry season will never cut off the datacenter: these are (summing that with no convenience whatsoever for nearby towns, few to no people in those communities will work for the datacenter. Maybe they pay good taxes to towns but it isn't a given either) in my opinion very solid elements to view a datacenter as a menace.