Probably a very isolated case... usually most of these things attract more infrastructure, more water, more electricity, and so on... so this looks like just a "mishap" rather than actual reality.
At least in NZ, this is NOT AT ALL a reality, much the opposite.
The government of NZ might still care a bit about its citizens. The government in the US does not.
It's more of a localised thing than most of us know, even if it has a national impact.
That's a contradictory statement, would you care to elaborate?
I mean, datacenters actually have good impacts on the lands developed around them, but they eventually have a national impact (jobs, more infra, etc).
The case of the US, is probably an isolated fact. Even if the US does not care.