While it offers short-term profits, building a data center in the North Loop comes at an opportunity cost. Data center oppositionI won’t pretend to be a data center expert, and I don’t want to know what an A-100 GPU is. The real problem isn’t data centers in general, but rather this specific data center in this specific spot. The six-story Borealis apartment building in Minneapolis’ North Loop neighborhood is an example of how much residential properties contribute to the city’s tax base. This is why Minneapolis’ North Loop neighborhood is the opposite of where you’d want to locate a data center.