All they need is space and connections for power and water. They should not block access to good soil formed by decades, or centuries, of favorable environmental conditions.

Build them in 10-year flood zones. All that hardware will be outmoded by the time the next flood hits anyway.

There's lots of available land in Hanford, Washington.

They can power up with tides or geothermal.
Ask an existing data center how to do it!

The farmer. Causing them to go bankrupt. The right complains about "good" farmland going to solar farms while supporting the energy guzzling AI centers to developers for their weapons and surveillance of American people.

I sure hope people start looking deeply at their priorities.

Pillar 4: Make the United States the Artificial Intelligence Capital of the World

“As we rapidly advance into this new age of AI, it is important that the United States lead the world in this field. Those looking to invest in and develop AI should be able to do so in the U.S., while we work to ensure data centers and related facilities can be powered and operated in a clean manner with American-made energy. Under President Trump’s leadership, I have no doubt that we will become the AI capital of the world,” said Administrator Zeldin.

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-lee-zeldin-announces-epas-powering-great-american-comeback