Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban(politico.com) |
Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban(politico.com) |
Are the datacenter concerns actually AI fears and they somehow think that stifling datacenter construction will save their jobs from AI? I understand the fear but if there's money to be made, datacenters will get built somewhere, and another municipality will reap the benefits.
Source?
But the real lesson of YIMBYism is the ability to think that local residents politically agitating against something they think constitutes a local negative externality, might need to get told to go to hell for the benefit of the rest of society, even if they're right about the thing being a negative externality for them.
In my California neighborhood right now, there are people complaining to our local city council representative about a certain planned housing development, that they think is a negative externality for them for various reasons. The city council person is interested in responding to the concerns of his constituents, and is also telling them that California state law limits what local governments can do to prevent these kinds of developments.
I am wholeheartedly in favor of that California law, much to the chagrin of my anti-housing neighbors. I would wholeheartedly be in favor of an analogous Texas law that tells anti-data-center local interests that their concerns are stupid, and they shouldn't have the power to prevent a corporation from constructing a data center near them, so that the rest of society can continue to benefit from using computer systems housed in data centers.
I laughed out loud at the suggestion that rural Texans are reading Politico, or any other “elite media” for that matter. I say this as someone who has lived in TX for decades.
ETA: to be fair, I'm not saying that what you describe never happens, but no way is this an example of it.
random llc will sell itself to an MBA who, once integrated,willdo nothing but strongarm politicians to zero.
good luck with the grift economy. these AI bros in sheeps clothing.
A) An electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside
B) No electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside
The main difference is that when people complain about the negative health effects of 5G cell phone radios, the Politico-writer class makes fun of them for being conspiracy theorists instead of arguing that the existence of these people is one of several good reasons to get rid of 5G cell phone towers.
Not that excuses your astronomical lack of decorum.
Y’all do vaguely understand how government works, right? Planning and zoning is a core function. This is hardly rocket science, except, I suppose, when your vibe-code shit start-up depends on building data centers in other folks’ backyards.
If an area is zoned for industrial and someone wants to build a datacenter there without variances I don't see why anyone should be able to say no. Same thing for building condos or single-family homes in areas zoned for those. There's almost always variances though which is why there is even an opportunity to say no.