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Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard (www.motherjones.com)
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[โ€“] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's a phenomenon called NIMBY and it's not specific to data centers.

[โ€“] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 14 points 8 hours ago

The distinction is that NIMBYs only object to the infrastructure when it's in their back yard. I think the majority of people object to these data centers anywhere, but only have voting power to directly oppose them in their back yards, so that's where their effort is spent. I haven't seen anyone say "I definitely want another massive datacenter to go up, just not here."