Ann Vaughan

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

And so...

is a natural kind of back and forth that is happening right now and it is concerning that you know there's there's a lot of money on the pro development side and um so you know that's where i'm i'm trying to kind of watch and see you know how is this uh happening there's a you know

Maybe the voice is not as loud, but there are voices within tech companies, within even guys who have been in the field developing data centers who say, look, we need to get to a place.

Communities have a lot of leverage now to ask for more.

They've now realized like, hey, we're kind of a unicorn here.

We've got a big pot of, you know...

available power or water or what have you.

And maybe our community is open to doing business with you, but we don't want to give tax incentives like we used to.

More leverage, yeah.

We used to give these certain breaks to low margin industrial users that we're trying to afford

to build a big car plant.

It's a really different community, you know, of potential users of the land that are coming in now.

And not only that, they do have technologies that can actually improve the community.

So not only can they give money for a new firehouse or fix the, you know, give money for schools, they could use

high-performance computing and help the community figure out... And they are doing this.

There are good partnerships happening with water where they're saying, if we come in, let us spend tens of millions of dollars in your community to help shore up your leaky water system.

And in exchange, that will help us replenish more water than we're actually using at our data center.

So there are things like that.

There's a...

There's a guy who was kind of known as the sort of conscience of the data center industry, Christian Bellotti.

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