@Scot1963 - and then there's the increasing community backlash against the current, full size data centers. Just google "data centers around the great lakes" for recent articles on that. Basically, the slew of data centers already built and being built in that area are straining both the grid and the water supply to major cities (like Chicago and Toronto) and even more drastically affecting the small rural farming communities that ring the Great Lakes. The area is a major food bowl, so... Food grown or data center? Hmm...

Smaller centers localized to businesses actively using them - and as is apparently being discussed, with the data center owners supplying their own power one way or another - might prove a workable compromise.