The thing is, data centers don't have to be so awful, but the billionaires DGAF about anyone else so they make them cheap, which means they don't produce their own electricity and they don't use cooling methods that are quieter and greener.

Basically the Epstein class is doing what they always do, they are minimizing their costs by being bad citizens and often paying off local politicians to do so. The thing is, the Republican party is a huge grift machine now. So they are happy to take corporate money to fuck over their own constituents.