(
Not
In
My
Back
Yard) Whenever a manufacturing plant, warehouse or other facility is planned for construction in a location that is objectionable to the surrounding local inhabitants, "not in my backward" (NIMBY) becomes the rallying cry. NIMBYism refers to that condition. Contrast with
YIMBY.
AI Datacenters
The current NIMBY howl is about the construction of datacenters for AI processing. They require enormous amounts of electricity and water, not to mention the huge amount of space they take up. For example, Elon Musk's datacenter is expected to take up a hundred million square feet (see
Terafab). See
AI datacenter.