“Certainly, the U.S. public has no such sympathy. Three in four Americans now say they would oppose a data center near them. Something like $260 billion worth of projects have been canceled this year alone, mainly in the face of local backlash.”

…year or two, I've had several people on Volts to talk about data centers, directly or indirectly. Most of them have made some version of the case that data centers can be good for the grid and for the climate if they're done right. Some of you have interpreted this choice of guests as an unduly sympathetic attitude toward data centers and written with varying degrees of politeness to tell me so. Certainly, the U.S. public has no such sympathy. Three in four Americans now say they would oppose a data center near them. Something like $260 billion worth of projects have been canceled this year alone, mainly in the face of local backlash. So, in the name of this podcast's populist credibility, it's time to hear the case against data centers. As it happens, I know a guy. Ketan Joshi spent years in the Australian wind industry fending off bogus health scares about turbines. These days, he's a freelance writer and analyst producing the most thorough critiques I've seen of big tech's climate claims, taking aim at everything from…