It isn't hard to understand why so many communities oppose data centers - they take over vast tracts of land that could be used for developments, farmland, or public recreation, consume huge quantities of water, and use as much electricity as 100K+ households, thus driving up energy prices for everybody else. The data centers don't generate job in the local community (except perhaps temporary construction work while the centers are being built), because they'll be staffed with people brought in from the outside.
And for what? So Silicon Valley oligarchs can run cryptocurrency speculation scams? Of course there will be opposition, including violent opposition, from communities who were never consulted. The best thing Ron DeSantis every did for Florida was to say NO to data centers. Let the Silicon Valley oligarchs build them in their own Califoria vicinity.
Right now, just across the bridge in WV, a ginormous one is set to destroy the already struggling hillbillies.
Again, FAI.