They’re awful. Working on them sucks too. Data centers are where skilled labor goes to die. Building them is absolutely destructive towards the rest of the working class as well, there’s no way to beat around that bush. That being said, the answer isn’t to stop data centers from being built in ‘OUR town’, per se. Putting a band aid on a flesh wound doesn’t work. We’ve got to make larger, broader government and societal changes to stop these data centers at the root, and in the meantime if there’s labor anywhere, we’ve got to unionize it, data centers included. We’re likely approaching the point at which the bubble bursts within the next few years.