Nobody Wants Data Centers in Their Backyard

After the Gallup poll was released, one prominent Twitter economist lamented that “people are mad about data centers, they’re mad about warehouses. Boy if neoliberalism hadn’t killed all the factories people would be mad about them too.”

But that smug comment ignores the additional political problem for data center advocates.

Put simply: their plans don’t seem to offer any explicit benefit to people living near them.