The data center backlash is a road to nowhere.
For decades, the US refused to build things — manufacturing, refining - because they were "dirty." So other countries built them instead, and we imported the output.
Did that make the world any cleaner? Obviously not. It just let us feel virtuous because the it was out of sight, even though we consumed everything it produced.
It made the United States dependent on adversaries for critical supply chains. Now we're doing it again with compute infrastructure.
The federal government needs to step in and avoid this disaster.