Boulder City more woke than Clark County

Along with the water and electricity and noise and tax breaks and teensy job creation and butt ugliness of the facilities themselves, people also hate data centers because they're in service to amoral billionaire bros who believe mere humans pale in significance when compared to towering techy-techy magnificence. If entire professions and occupations are eliminated, leaving untold millions of said humans in penury, misery, and despair, the masters of the universe who made it all possible can be relied on to mutter something about breaking a few eggs.

Another reason people — or at least some people — hate data centers is there's no denying that part of the rationalization underlying the boom consists of rainbows and fairy dust, i.e., there’s no hyperscaling without hype. There’s a good chance that for all the muss and fuss and ecological carnage, a lot these things are destined to be giant rotting husks anchoring ghost towns of the not so distant future. And of course stranded costs incurred by regulated utilities will be passed along to … all the people who lost their jobs, I guess.

And that concludes today's version of old man shakes fist at sky.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Boulder City likes to lean in to the Small Town, USA thing, which means it doesn't always adhere to the putting-developers-first zeitgeist that rules Southern Nevada in general. And so... Boulder City said we don't want you. Fine, answered the data center company, if you're going to be all wokey woke we'll just take our data center a few feet in a different direction and build it on BLM land and Boulder City will lose some yummy tax money. To which Boulder City says yeah we're going to see if we can block your McDatacenter on that federal spot too. I'm paraphrasing. Probably. Jeniffer Solis reports: Developer withdraws Boulder City data center, signals move to federal land

In contrast to Boulder City’s occasional growth-skepticism, historically, the Clark County Commission's unofficial motto (and default setting) has been "the customer is always right" — so long as the customer is a deep-pocketed developer of virtually anything that involves a sizable chunk of real estate. Leilah Ortega reports: Clark County commissioners hear push for data center moratorium but take no action

Dozens of safety measures have been recommended, some short-term, some long-term, all costing money. Clark officials eye traffic safety proposals as crashes near schools spike

Whoa what a mess. This is great look at the lay o' the land vis-a-vis Platner's plummet, via the Current's friends on the ground at the Maine Morning Star: Who will replace Graham Platner and how will Maine’s Democrats decide?

Good Luck