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Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban

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by fastest963

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Datacenters bring millions in tax revenue (I oppose giving them tax breaks, that's a politician issue not an issue inherent to DCs) and are much less of a nuance than factories or warehouses. The increased cost of electricity is a concern but can be helped by an upfront investment, a bond for future grid maintenance, or separate utility infrastructure.
Are the datacenter concerns actually AI fears and they somehow think that stifling datacenter construction will save their jobs from AI? I understand the fear but if there's money to be made, datacenters will get built somewhere, and another municipality will reap the benefits.

by JuniperMesos

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Anti-data-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite media class (i.e. the kinds of people who write for Politico), who are scared of AI. I wish the US had better constitutional protections for people who want to build infrastructure in spite of short-sighted or malicious activist opposition.