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I freely admit I may be biased by how Finland is, but I just don't see that happening to any meaningful extent. Perhaps this is due to planning differences or simply population distribution, but at least over here the union of "old industrial area", "not enough space nearby for expansion" and "cheap enough lot to make building a datacenter from scratch attractive in the first place" is roughly a null set. Any such old industrial areas near (more than a few individual) residential homes that would be at all attractive to datacenter operators are already economically unattractive due to either being valued higher for residential expansion or having abundant vacant land in other nearby sites.
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