“Excessive local focus”

The United States is already hosting Almost half Among the world’s databases – about 5400 – due to tremendous accumulation in recent years.

Data centers are built by large consumer brands including Amazon, Google and Meta as well Searching for public lands For potential development.

Many regions jumped to the opportunity to host such development and look to create job opportunities and economic growth.

The data center industry contributed 4.7 million jobs 727 billion US dollars To the GDP in 2023, according to a report issued by the Data Center, an industrial group.

Other societies were not very excited.

Bin Incib, director of the program in the Labor Alliance in Indiana, said that their fears range from traffic and pollution to water use and high energy rates.

He said: “One of the things that the local population finds frustrated is how (developers) work through secrecy, waiting for even the last second to notify that building the data center is under development.”

He said that this prompted societies to search for others who have had similar experiences.

Inskeepe said that his alliance tracks 40 proposals for the data center in Indiana, where six were withdrawn on the basis of local objections.

Windy Regel, who lives in Chesterton, northern Indiana, last year led an attempt to stop developing a large data center in a former golf course in its 500 -homes.

“You never think that the commercial golf stadium will become a heavy industry,” she said.

She said that the developer withdrew his request, but he moved to the experience of other close societies, each of which was also a killer.

She said the key is a “excessive” concentration.

“The big goal is to come to the meetings. Send an email to your point of view, go out and put out signs of annihilation, and talk to neighbors and people who will make this decision.”

New tools

There are also legal and legislative changes to provide new tools to process local concerns.

In June, Oregon has made data centers a separate energy user category, based on fears that the cost of new electricity requirements by these operations will be carried by the population.

Previously, these costs were “spreading like peanut butter” among all users, which is a logical strategy when power needs almost increased together.

While the demand for residential customers in Oregon has increased by 3.5 percent since 2016, the demand from industrial customers, including databases, It increased by 95 percent In the past five years only.

Jenx said that the state’s electricity rates have risen by about 50 percent in the past five years, and last year a record number of residential customers was separated from the lack of payment.

Origon state law raises Similar bills In Pennsylvania and other countries.

Vida Carroll, who lives in Prince William rural district, in Virginia, said the world’s largest concentration of data centers in the world, the residents are watching more development.

She said: “There are societies throughout the country that are going through studies similar to what Virginia is going through.”

She said that the procedures of the population in North Virginia were affected by the elections, prompting some of the proposed data center operations to reduce the size.

In August, they registered a Legal victory She said that more than 2,100 acres is a proposal for the Data Center of 2100 acres, as the construction of its transport line and the possibility of high electricity rates for the population relates to years.

“Were we able to solve this problem? No,” Carroll said. “But I am optimistic about the change that citizens were able to obtain.”

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