Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction
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Two years of local fights over AI data centers in Pennsylvania show that power, water, and community tolerance are now as constraining as chips. If your roadmap assumes ‘just add more compute,’ you need a siting and permitting strategy—or a plan for efficiency and hybrid deployments—baked into capacity planning.
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