Seriously, it can't be that hard to build a datacenter and not piss people off. The economics demanded scale so fast that the capitalists don't care enough to thoughtfully plan this stuff out.
This is America, anything you do pisses people off[0]. The problem is that the rest of us listen to them because it is easier to understand one person's complaint than the distributed pain of electricity being a penny per kwh more expensive.
[0]I've seen people whinging about building solar plants in the desert, windmills off shore, data centers in silicon valley...
[0]I've seen people whinging about building solar plants in the desert, windmills off shore, data centers in silicon valley...