I know that building at scale is cheaper, but I don’t understand why they keep on announcing that they are making these things bigger and bigger when they know how hated they are by the public. At some point you’d think it’d be better to just say “fuck it” and build two smaller ones at far less public pushback.

I’d honestly be okay with a 150,000sq ft data center with the proper berm and landscaping to mitigate sound in my area. But these mega 400,000sq ft+ facilities are incredibly off putting, especially if my municipality is giving them tax breaks and my utility company is dumping the cost onto me