SimCity veteran: data centers should be every city's dream, so why the backlash?
signulll · x · 2026-11-08
A lifelong SimCity player points out that data centers bring massive capital investment, huge tax revenue, minimal traffic and little pollution — in the game, you'd zone for as many as possible and build the richest city ever. Yet people fight tooth and nail to keep them out, which means the debate isn't really about the data centers at all.
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