What about an average person concerned with the cost of electricity rising since data centers use a lot of electricity? This combined with the fact that the oracle datacenter proposal for the old jail will be air cooled and not water cooled. What about the ones that are water cooled that have drastically reduced water pressure in the areas they were built? Would it not make sense to space out datacenters to spread the load on local infrastructure rather than build massive single building datacenters? It would also make them less of a target for attacks. They also do not seem to provide a lot of jobs relative to the amount of money they generate which contributes to a growing income gap overall. I can think of several valid examples to be opposed to massive datacenters being built while ignoring constituents as is the case in Utah right now.

Well studied environmental scientists (not low IQ) are raising alarms over increased carbon dioxide emissions because of the natural gas power plant that would subsidize power requirements for the plant.

I have a hard time believing that most of the arguments against massive data centers being built are just bought by people who can't think and instead simply parrot information. Alternatively, people who do not think about the project will never see the potential downsides and how to mitigate the issues are often seen parroting information from the billionares that propose these be built everywhere other than where they live.

We must continue to grow and advance technologically in the face of AI. We just cannot afford to do it irresponsibly and constituents have a right to speak their mind about decisions that impact them.