All these wild plans are pretty funny given hyperscalers won't even build "in the middle of nowhere" in the US but rather they put their sites in the edge of exist industrial areas with the aim to repurpose every bit of industrial infrastructure plus aiming to get all the incentives these small town (corruptly imo) offer industries for relocation.

I mean, the US could have a rational process of building new energy infrastructure (which should be only solar, wind and nuclear imo) but the actual process is opportunistic and haphazard. So it's not strange to see the NIMBYs biting them. It's like "well if you hadn't been a d*k, this might not be happening to you..."