That it contaminates the drinking water is directly false.
That it causes causes intolerable noise for neighbors can be true, but is incredibly rare. There is literally no reason to build a datacenter anywhere near a residential area and any local authority that allows it close enough to cause an issue are idiots… but I have read an article where it happened at least once in the US.
That it increases the cost of utilities is likely true, especially in states with shitty overloaded electricity grids in the first place.
Generally you want to build data centers close to the end users (or at least not overseas), and generally you care about the legal jurisdiction the data is in. So American companies are very much going to prefer building data-centers in the US, in the same way EU companies prefers (and is sometimes mandated) to use European data centers.
Thanks for the clarification! As for building overseas or not, what I should have said was “don’t they have datacentres overseas for their users outside the US?”
I figured they’d already have datacentres here in Japan or at least somewhere in Asia to distribute the load or whatever.
That it contaminates the drinking water is directly false.
That it causes causes intolerable noise for neighbors can be true, but is incredibly rare. There is literally no reason to build a datacenter anywhere near a residential area and any local authority that allows it close enough to cause an issue are idiots… but I have read an article where it happened at least once in the US.
That it increases the cost of utilities is likely true, especially in states with shitty overloaded electricity grids in the first place.
Generally you want to build data centers close to the end users (or at least not overseas), and generally you care about the legal jurisdiction the data is in. So American companies are very much going to prefer building data-centers in the US, in the same way EU companies prefers (and is sometimes mandated) to use European data centers.
Thanks for the clarification! As for building overseas or not, what I should have said was “don’t they have datacentres overseas for their users outside the US?”
I figured they’d already have datacentres here in Japan or at least somewhere in Asia to distribute the load or whatever.