The data centers in the US are going up at such a speed that there is little to no public feedback allowed on any proposals. Once built the data center only provides a single digit number of jobs while raising the price of electricity in the region (typically by a very significant increase) and creating a low level audio hum that is below human hearing but still causes physiological effects.

The end result is American data centers ignore the public, cost them more money, provides no benefit, and physically hurts the community while operational. Most European data centers have to contend with build codes and councils, paying specific attention to community impact. Not in America. They just go up and make everything else cost more.

There's a fight against them up here in Canada, but the US really is trying to speed run the heat death of the world

Its just a more developed problem in the U. S. Because the industry is bigger and further along. Its coming everywhere (barring a pop).

Control the media.
Suppress any mention of new datacenters.
No backlash.

"Hash backlash" is a great tagline for people disliking datacenters. Too bad they're not actually doing any cryptography lol