Most claims in this debate are partly true. The useful question is what each one leaves out.

Below are claims we hear regularly, from people on every side of this. For each one we say what is accurate about it before we say what the record adds. Where a claim is simply correct, we say that too.

Claims we hear

Below are claims we hear regularly, from people on every side of this. For each one we say what is accurate about it before we say what the record adds. Where a claim is simply correct, we say that too.

"We all use data centers every day. Opposing them is hypocritical."

What is accurate

Placeholder. Yes — everyday internet use depends on data centers, and that demand is real… etc.

What the record adds

Placeholder. The question at issue is not whether data centers should exist but which kind is proposed, at what scale, under what review, and who bears the costs.

See: what data centers are

"This is a race with China. Delay means losing it."

What is accurate

Placeholder. What is genuinely true about international competition in this area.

What the record adds

Placeholder. What the argument does and does not establish about any particular siting or review decision.

Source: [document]

"These projects will bring good permanent jobs."

What is accurate

Placeholder.

What the record adds

Placeholder. Figures in the developers' own filings where they exist.

Source: [document]

"Residents voted against zoning, so they chose this."

What is accurate

Placeholder.

What the record adds

Placeholder. The actual statutory mechanism, etc.

See: law and process

"Opposition here is being organized from outside the state."

What is accurate

Placeholder.

What the record adds

Placeholder.

Source: [document]

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