They just take people for fools! Those "Happy" residents might feel differently once the water and electricity bill hits.
A single hyperscale data center can draw as much power as 100,000 homes and up to 5 million gallons of water a day, all to deliver about 47 permanent jobs to the sleepy town that hosts it.
Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns, because they create so many jobs and bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses and stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years and put a data center there, there are gonna be a whole bunch of happy residents."