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Why Communities Fight Data Centers

Every data center fight looks like it's about noise, or water, or traffic. It's rarely actually about any of those things.

This episode gets into what community opposition is really responding to, and introduces VWPP, the four-factor test for whether a project has earned its social permission before the hearing even starts.

Dirt to Data is hosted by Suhail Tayyeb.

12 Questions to Ask Before You Advance a Data Center Site: ⁠⁠https://fromdirttodata.com/the-12-questions

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