This is very wrong, please stop spreading this misinfo. I’d be happy to see you leave this community, to be honest. This is not the place for your brand of trash dumping.

Data centers consume resources and do work regardless of local load: even if local users make 5+million requests per minute (which average web use patterns suggest will be much, much lower from average users), the bulk of a new data center + peering will be done in service of FAANG, not local users.

So no local profit from data center success except maybe a slightly more reliable streaming service.

But data centers don’t create local jobs, either, so local job market isnt improved either.

Datacentres are not only very often not required to pay for their infrastructure, by they often get massive tax breaks from communities that need the income.

And notice I’m leaving out water, since that is not a drawback on all datacentre types. I’m also leaving out gas-powered turbines some data centers have employed to power themselves, which is adisguating and abhorrent disregard for doing any kind of service to help slow human-induced climate change.

So:

• no local jobs
• profit leaves area
• don’t contribute to the community in taxes

So tell us again why datacentres are “moral panic”?

Alternatively, as I mentioned, feel free to leave this community, and not to return.