An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers - Inside Climate News
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Despite overwhelming public opposition, officials in Bessemer voted to recommend changes to city zoning ordinances to allow the massive development. Its operation could strain the state’s water and power supplies and leave an already imperiled fish species at risk of extinction.
  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Sure, new data centers are a necessary evil that have to be built somewhere, but ……

    What’s in it for the town?

    • are they claiming jobs? Like 12?
    • are they claiming a new water system for everyone? At whose cost?
    • will this benefit the community in some way?
    • is there excess power that needs to be used?

    Sure they should be somewhere but how about somewhere with the infrastructure to support it? Somewhere already developed?