21st Century NIMBY ~ ALL THINGS DATA CENTER
Not in My Back Yard
This library is intended to support fact-based discussions about the data center and hyperscaler market. In lay terms, it includes examples from communities around the world on what is possible with respect to design and architecture, technologies for powering and cooling, mitigation of unwanted byproducts, protecting human+environmental health, and ways communities and landowners, state agencies and legislative bodies can establish regional policies that protect the interests of all stakeholders.
Some of it is specifically focuses on Central Texas, a region challenged by an acute water crisis and rapid growth requiring power grid planning that need not include managing overwhelming data center demands.
That doesn't mean it's only for a CTX audience.
It means that a global audience considering CTX locations for their enterprises need to check their financial privilege at the door and make sure their bid to join the community serves the current and future wellbeing of its residents.