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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Keeping them out of residential areas and limiting their impact on municipal utilities seems prudent.

Trying to evade regulations by hiding it in a subdivision isnt cool.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, and Monterey Park was 100% right for what they did. Any developer thinking they can "hide" a data center worth building in a suburb is insane.