In Utah on Wednesday, State Senate President J. Stuart Adams—one of the most powerful Republicans in the state—lost his primary election after supporting a major data center development near the Great Salt Lake, in one of the clearest signs yet of the growing political risks tied to the industry.
Its worth noting that even if that data centre used closed loop cooling, generating all that power requires lots of water (like most generating stations, including coal and gas) or use combustion turbine generators that pollutes like crazy.