DT #694 The Data Center Debate: Opportunity, Opposition, and Community Impact
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DT #694 The Data Center Debate: Opportunity, Opposition, and Community Impact

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202629 min
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  • Business & money

Why does everyone hate data centers? In this episode of Develop This!, Dennis Fraise talks with Chris Lloyd of McGuireWoods Consulting LLC to explore the growing debate surrounding data centers and what they mean for communities. The conversation examines why public opinion around data centers has shifted, from excitement over investment and economic growth to concerns about power, water, noise, land use, and long-term community impact. Chris and Dennis discuss the economic benefits data centers can bring, including tax revenue, infrastructure investment, and new opportunities for communities. They also take a closer look...

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Welcome to Develop This, the number one podcast for economic and community development professionals with your host, Dennis Frasie. Today's Develop This episode is in partnership with the Site Selectors Guild. Welcome back to another edition of Develop This podcast is Dennis and I'm doing a new

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series that I call, Why Does Everyone Hate Data Centers? seems to be on everybody's minds right now. And in order to do that, I've been inviting a cross-section of experts and people that are involved in data centers

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in this field to join me. And today I'm really happy to have a good friend of the show and one of my personal favorite people, Chris Lloyd with McGuire Woods Consulting, back to the show.

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