Ann Vaughan

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 902: The Pros, Cons, and Complications of Data Centers · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

But there are parts of the country that also have economic synergies, I guess you could say, with this type of an industry.

They have factories that can and are producing the equipment that goes inside.

They've got a workforce of electrical and mechanical and trades craft workers who have been underemployed for a long time.

And that starts to kind of work together.

There are several areas in the Rust Belt that the economic development authorities have either recruited data centers or were open to data centers coming

the workforce, especially like organized unions, are very in favor of it.

And then other residents who live in the midst of farmland are not in favor of it and don't want it.

And so there are some really hard trade-offs, you know, because we all need jobs and economic activity in our community.

And that is actually what ends up funding all of the infrastructure that makes the city livable.

Yeah.

That's who's against them.

It's these two, two different sides.

It's partially antagonism to big tech.

You know, they're spying on my life.

They,

are driving our young people the wrong direction.

It's partially property rights.

I will not have my property seized for a transmission line that sends power to Elon Musk's or Sam Altman's data center.

And it's their way of life.

Um, I will tell you that when you go to some of those communities though, people will acknowledge a mixed feeling because some of them have sold their, you don't even have to have sold a big piece of property inside the data center to possibly have your property value, um, you know, a potential, potential gain.

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