RE: LeoThread 2025-10-16 00-49

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Google withdrew a $1B data-center proposal after facing a likely loss in an Indianapolis city council vote. Microsoft also canceled a similar Wisconsin project following community pushback.

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Are these isolated incidents or the start of a broader trend?

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers

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If those figures are accurate, it should be expected that more local communities will push back to stop data-center buildouts in their regions when projects spike electricity prices so dramatically.

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A possible solution is for hyperscalers to use robust free cashflow to fund local solar+storage deployments or cover residents' electricity bills—reducing local power costs to zero and building goodwill.

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Otherwise, more communities are likely to oppose data centers, complicating the AI infrastructure expansion that needs to happen

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