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Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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I'm going to go out on a limb here: Nobody is building data centers near wealthy neighborhoods.
Which is why the comparison is based on rate ...
Wouldn't the total number affect accuracy of the rate? I think one chart in the article showed something like 700 proposals for low income areas and 100-200 proposals for high income areas. As N approaches zero, the rate of resistance or cancellation is a lot more sensitive to smaller numbers of events.