alt Hacker News> I hear and understand those, but why isn't it a regulation or requirements issue?
It's a waste of time and money for each town and county to come up with those requirements. If your community puts any limits on the datacenter builder they'll just build it somewhere else, so you might as well save the effort and just say they can't do it.
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ratelimitsteve • yesterday at 6:38 PM
>they'll just build it somewhere else
what seems to be happening in practice is that the companies building these data centers will just take you to court over the limits being illegal and make that fight cost more than the town's entire annual budget, thus inducing the town to give up.
the US is a republic of states. By design it wastes time and money to allow disagreement, variety, and self-determination of states.
> they'll just build it somewhere else
Why should we have rights to say they cannot do it somewhere else? It's not a moral issue, it's a tragedy of commons issue or unpriced externality issue.