The problem is that it isn't ours to decide in many countries. Billionaires control everything, or at the very least have a 10 ton thumb on the scale and have a monopoly on violence.

Look at the US, vehement opposition to almost all datacenters over the entire country, the entire voterbase tells their politicians on every level that they all don't want them. What happens? The politicians completely ignore the population and the people that voted for them, use the people's tax money to build the billionaire surveillance complexes that will literally suck all of the water out of the ground and cause blackouts and create maybe 10 jobs.

We see that here is Europe more and more too, especially with anything having to do with banks. We data centers popping up everywhere and half of new automation engineer jobs are for data center pop ups here in Belgium with 0 option to even publicly dissent, much less vote against them.