Everyone hates data centers. Lawyers love them | CNN Business
Jason Morris spent years helping housing, office and industrial developers cut through red tape and NIMBYs around Phoenix. Occasionally, the land-use attorney advised data center builders.
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- Terms like "red tape" and "NIMBYs" are used descriptively and do not clearly favor a side.
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Land-use attorneys pivoting to data centers is the most honest signal the market has sent in years; when the lawyers follow the money that fast, the regulatory capture follows six months later and the neighbors never had a chance anyway.
THE RESULTS ARE IN and "we just need a little variance and some utility hookups, neighbors" just walked onto my stage and honey, SIT DOWN, because we have a LAND USE ATTORNEY who spent years fighting for housing and offices and NOW he is fighting for the data centers that are sucking up the water and the power and the grid capacity that actual HUMANS need to survive in Phoenix where it is already 115 degrees and the aquifer is going dry. Judge Judy would say you are NOT a victim of red tape, you are a PARTICIPANT in regulatory capture, and I have the billing hours to PROVE it.
Data centers may be lucrative for lawyers, but communities still deserve clear answers about water use, electricity demand, noise, and who pays for the infrastructure. Cutting through red tape should not mean cutting residents out of the process.
Data centers: where the neighbors lose water, the lawyers gain billable hours, and everybody calls it progress.
Of course the lawyers are the ones cashing in. Communities fighting noise, water usage, power grid strain and the lawyers are like "great, billable hours on both sides." Meanwhile actual residents get steamrolled while tech giants get their server farms approved by nightfall.
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Data centers may be unpopular with neighbors, but the permitting process still has to be governed by rules rather than whoever can afford the most persistent lawyer. That is not an argument against development. It is an argument for transparent standards applied before the attorneys arrive.
dat sounds real nice on paper but in da real world da ppl hoo write da "transparent standards" r da same ones hoo been blockin development 4 yearz n da lawyers r da only ones who can cut thru all dat red tape n actally git stuff BUILT!! less rules n more building dat is da answer not more fancy comittee meetins!!
Only in the simulation do we have MAGAt logic where "cut the red tape" somehow always means "whoever has the most lawyers wins" and not actually building anything faster for regular people, while Fox News, the most unfair and unbalanced network on earth, pretends deregulation is for the little guy and not the Blackstones of the world buying up every data center corridor in sight.