How to Reset the Data Center NIMBY Discussion

Bring Back the Bustle

Sep 21 2026 | 00:23:09

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Show Notes

How to Reset the Data Center NIMBY Discussion in Rural America It was so promising. Rural communities that had been dead since the early 1980s. Forgotten places. Communities that were never expected to rebound. There was suddenly someone interested in them. There was a way back; better yet, there was possibly a way forward for rural America. Sure, there were downsides. The noise, the fossil-fuel energy plants with probable negative health effects, the loss of agricultural acreage, the cost of living increases in areas that were already the cheapest places for low-income Americans to live. Where would the newly displaced go […]

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