Why the Data Center Construction Boom Is Hitting a Wall

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https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-the-data-center-construction-boom-is-hitting-a-wall/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Doing stuff is hard.

Let's just forfeit the AI Race to the Chi-coms, and go on banning more stuff, so the Chi-coms can dominate more sectors of the global economy.

[Cyber Liberty]

Excerpt from article:

No, instead today we turn to data centers, which have bizarrely turned into the fiercest environmental issue in the country and a hot talking point in the 2026 midterms; the New York Times asks if the opposition to data centers represents “the fastest opinion shift in American politics.”

A recent chat with a friend illuminated the gargantuan physical challenges facing the data center boom. The political fights are getting all the attention, but the massive nationwide construction spree is rapidly running into other difficult laws — the laws of supply and demand. Read on.
The Non-Red Tape Reasons Data Centers Are Hard to Build

It’s not just when you use an artificial intelligence like ChatGPT or Claude; everything you do on the internet involves a data center in some form. When you purchase something on the internet, the seller’s website, payment processing, inventory, and order database all run on servers housed in data centers. Usually, a transaction involves multiple data centers — the retailer’s, the payment processors, and cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft’s Azure.
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Every telehealth meeting with your doctor involves video streams being routed through data center infrastructure, along with patient records, scheduling, and billing systems. Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, etc. all rely on data centers to handle call routing, recording, and account management, even if some of the audio/video processing happens on your device. Even the newsletter you’re reading right now, unless you’re viewing it saved locally, was served to your computer, phone, or tablet from a server in a data center.
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Arguing against data centers is like arguing against the existence of the internet itself. We’re not putting that genie back into that bottle.

[DefiantMassRINO]

For states that welcome and accomodate datacenters, those data centers can be anchors for growing Information Technology and other knowledge-based industries in their states.

New York, California, Massachusetts, Illinois, and North Carolina (?) are too expensive in terms of regulations, money, lack of energy, and time to locate new AI datacenters in those states.

This is an opportunity for a North Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virgina or other fossil-fuel-rich state to grow, diversify, and modernize their economies.

Every instance of "No" is an opportunity for those who say "Yes".

California and Massachsuetts are vulnerable to losing technology and other sectors because of their anti-growth public policies.  The textile industry left New England for the South.  The financial industry left New England for the South.  The tech sector has been migrating from New England to the South.  There's no reason that other states couldn't poach compute-demanding sectors like Bio-Med and Pharamceuticals.

The Yankees will be left to count their trust fund money while the workers go to where the living is easy and the opportunities are plentiful.  The Yankees will still want illegal alien foreigners to work as the hired help around their mansions.

[Cyber Liberty]

For states that welcome and accomodate datacenters, those data centers can be anchors for growing Information Technology and other knowledge-based industries in their states.

New York, California, Massachusetts, Illinois, and North Carolina (?) are too expensive in terms of regulations, money, lack of energy, and time to locate new AI datacenters in those states.

This is an opportunity for a North Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virgina or other fossil-fuel-rich state to grow, diversify, and modernize their economies.

Every instance of "No" is an opportunity for those who say "Yes".

California and Massachsuetts are vulnerable to losing technology and other sectors because of their anti-growth public policies.  The textile industry left New England for the South.  The financial industry left New England for the South.  The tech sector has been migrating from New England to the South.  There's no reason that other states couldn't poach compute-demanding sectors like Bio-Med and Pharamceuticals.

The Yankees will be left to count their trust fund money while the workers go to where the living is easy and the opportunities are plentiful.  The Yankees will still want illegal alien foreigners to work as the hired help around their mansions.

Massachusetts was, at one time, a rival of Silicon Valley for high tech development.  I have a Cousin who relocated there for a Research job.