Data Centers: Yea or Nay?

I am only just beginning to study this subject, and don't know much about it yet, but I am finding out one thing for sure. The community governments that have been planning these things have been doing it without preparing the public at all. A friend of mine in Emporia, Kansas said, "They have done all of this without letting the community know what they were doing. It is a little scary." I'll say it's a little scary. It's a lot scary. A comment I saw on one of these posts about data centers expressed the same reaction I was having to this: they are doing this with no citizen engagement. It's more than scary to me. That is why I am glad I found that data centers have caught the attention of Erin Brockovich. Brockovich is best known for spearheading a historic $333 million lawsuit in 1993 against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) for contaminating the drinking water in Hinkley, California and featured in the Academy Award–winning 2000 biographical film "Erin Brockovich," starring Julia Roberts. You can report an issue by going to this site and click on "report an issue" in the upper right-hand corner of the site. The AI Overview tells me that, "Roughly 30% to 50% of planned U.S. data centers are facing severe delays or cancellations. The primary bottlenecks are power grid limitations and a major shortage of specialized electrical equipment, alongside growing bipartisan community and environmental pushback." And I think that is a good thing. I am frankly incredulous that these things are being pushed so hard and in such a way that people are angry and feel that the powers that be have been doing it behind the backs of the citizens. What immediately comes to my mind is why they need literally thousands of acres of land to put these things up? Don't we still need farmland in this country? Living in Kansas, this strikes me as a very questionable endeavor. In the past couple of days, I have heard complaints about water supply running out, utility bills going up sky high and even more scary possibilities such as privacy concerns, fear that these are just another way for Big Brother to be watching us. Perhaps, with some more communication on the part of the engineers of these things, the public can calm down and everything will fall into place the way I am sure the powerful are hoping will happen, but I am seriously disturbed by this news. I believe the people should have been hearing more about these plans of theirs much sooner than this. I hope they not only delay but cancel many more of these data centers. I am not even sure it's such a great idea to be pursuing "Artificial Intelligence" with such fervor anyway. Some of the important people, Bill Gates, for example, said that AI would eventually "replace humans for most things." Now, why in the world is this such a priority? However, he did say that "specific fields that will remain largely immune to AI due to their reliance on uniquely human judgment, deep reasoning, and creativity, specifically (1) coders and software developers, (2) biologists, and (3) energy experts. One breath of hope: Notably, education was not among these three jobs that AI would not replace. So, I see this super scientific guru envisaging a world where robots will replace people in sales and service occupations, medicine and labor and every form of work other than those three fields? I think I have finally fully understood what is meant by the expression "mad scientist." How about we put all this on hold for a few decades? https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/