Loud Neighbors

Boiling rivers. $500 power bills. Towns held hostage by a windowless building nobody asked for.

That's the headline version of the data center fight happening in your state right now - and it's not entirely wrong. It's also not the whole story.

Loud Neighbors pulls apart the biggest claims on both sides of America's fastest-growing land-use fight and checks them against the actual numbers: utility filings, legislative studies, and the public records from towns that said yes, said no, and are still deciding.

Inside, you'll find plain-English answers to the questions town halls actually argue about:

• Do data centers really raise your electric bill - and when is that claim true versus spin?
• How much water does a hyperscale facility actually use, compared to the golf course down the road?
• What do the "thousands of jobs" promises really deliver once construction ends?
• What happened in the three real towns that took three different paths - and what decided the outcome?

No jargon without a translation. No number without its source. Just the five questions worth asking before your town signs anything - and the tools to tell a genuine deal from a good pitch.