Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties

freecodeio

only politicians are delusional enough to think people will support datacenters in their county

_doctor_love

People aren't "Republicans" or "Democrats" or whatever. They're people. Of course "Republican support" collapses in communities once you start asking people what they want. [EDIT: damn. y'all in the comments. whoosh ]

andsoitis

One solution is to put them in space, leaving more room and resources for humans and wildlife.

arjie

Find this quite funny overall. In the end Loudoun and Santa Clara get cheap power and lower property taxes than otherwise because they host so many datacenters. It’s pretty good that local policy leads to such good outcomes for people. Huge fan of this structure. The policy-outcome feedback loop should be tight. People rapidly adapt when that happens. Fortunately site selection is still possible and construction teams are still well occupied. America’s fortunate to enter a period with such clean industry. Dropping the ball here would have been so foolish.

jmuguy

Depends on the datacenter. If SpaceX etc weren't intent on cutting corners with illegal natural gas generators and trying to trick locals there wouldn't be any push back. Its not like we started building these things in the last couple of years. I've been to plenty of data centers that no one even knew were data centers because they weren't the size of Manhattan and spewing out tons of noise pollution.

tbojanin

what are the pros and cons of having a data center in your county? and does it actually change residents day to day lives in any noticeable way?

SLHamlet

BTW this data is drawn from a US map of the entire US data center built-out, county by county: https://pressaudit.org/blog/datacenters

downrightmike

Data centers are only going up near populations because the DCs want the community to pay for all the infrastructure upgrades and higher rates. If the DCs had to go it alone, wait who are we kidding? They never even thought of that path, it's all about how to push the costs on to locals. They want all the freebies they can get. They bring nothing to the table

legitster

The title is extremely misleading. Local support collapses almost identically regardless of party affiliation. This is more indicative of the general NIMBY effect.

stronglikedan

The article seems to be confusing Republicans with people in GOP counties. Republicans are politicians, and just like Democrats, they're only in it for the special interest groups that bribe them, while being completely out of touch with their constituents.