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    3 days ago

    I’m going to go out on a limb here: Nobody is building data centers near wealthy neighborhoods.

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        2 days ago

        And if the wealthy need to “resist” a data center, they have the power to do so quietly, successfully, and with little effort. Poor neighborhoods can make all the noise they want, to little or no effect.

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        Wouldn’t the total number affect accuracy of the rate? I think one chart in the article showed something like 700 proposals for low income areas and 100-200 proposals for high income areas. As N approaches zero, the rate of resistance or cancellation is a lot more sensitive to smaller numbers of events.

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          Looks like the total n c1,500 was for all known projects in the dataset. The quartiles were determined from within areas with known projects.

          So the Q4 range ( $133-250k median household), represents the 25% projects in the richest areas of areas that had projects in them. Hence n is 365/366 “projects” in each each group.

          If there are tracts with median hh incomes way above that, but no projects, then “resistance” rate is unknown or even undefined.