Public opinion is tilting against data centers as more hyperscale facilities crop up to house the computing power for artificial intelligence.
On the other hand, the executive secretary of the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council is all for them. After all, construction workers are the ones building and wiring the data centers.
Construction tradesmen and women filled the room at a Cleveland City Council hearing this week on legislation temporarily pausing new data centers. And trades council leader Dave Wondolowski rejected Cuyahoga County’s new guidelines for handling data center developments…