Maybe politicians should start adhering to the will of constituents?
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Camwi4 days ago
+919
Seriously. I know of a community in Wisconsin that voted against a data center, and they went forward with it anyways.
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Wizchine4 days ago
+531
Bribes... those developers have lots of money for bribes.
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nzdastardly4 days ago
+217
Billionaires are bad for democracy. We have somehow allowed a class 1000x richer than what the average person thinks of as 'rich' to emerge and are now surprised that democracy is eroding.
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FlyingStealthPotato4 days ago
+87
I saw a method of tracking wealth inequality as the top 0.00001% has as much accrued wealth as 4% the country’s income per year during the Gilded age. That figure is 12+% now. We have (by one method of tracking), 3x the wealth disparity as we did during the period we consider the worst wealth disparity in our history.
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nzdastardly4 days ago
+26
That tracks. People don't understand how much a billion is. We need to reinstate laws that incentivize reinvestment in industry/employees and eliminate stock buybacks and shareholder service. The free market is a terrific concept, but without at least basic redistribution of the gains and regulation of who wins, it consumes itself. My biggest fear is that the current oligarchs go to far and spark a communist style uprising or government.
Edit: Noticed i cut off "reinvestment in industry/employees" to just "reinvest". It used to be true that wealth generated jobs because it used to make fiscal/tax sense to put your fortune into factories/employee benefits/other expenses that could be borrowed against to be rich instead of just stock options and pretend stuff.
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FlyingStealthPotato4 days ago
+8
Me? I don’t care one way or the other. The problem with most governments throughout history is that they espouse one idea while practicing another or practicing that idea imperfectly. I decided long ago that it’s not the system that’s the problem, it’s the problem that people who thirst for money, power, and control are always attracted the the positions that control those things. It’s further the problem that the rest of the masses typically don’t want to be bothered with the levers of control and power (we can debate the reasons, but I think that is accurate, notice I didn’t include money here). I think any mutually obviously “fair” system, actually implemented in practice, works. We’ve just not really seen much of that happen in history.
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Ooh-A-Shiny-Penny4 days ago
+10
It's actually disgusting thinking about it that way. I have an extremely lucrative job, can afford basically anything I would ever want, save for some extremely expensive luxuries. Most would think I'm extremely wealthy and yet...multiply my annual salary by 100x and It's not even anywhere near $1 billion. That much money gives singular individuals too much power, and yet we let people have HUNDREDS of BILLIONS
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Sir-xer213 days ago
+3
>Most would think I'm extremely wealthy and yet
I mean, you objectively are.
I get your point, but like, to the vast majority of the world, you have an unimaginable amount of wealth if you're making 8 figures a year.
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nzdastardly4 days ago
+3
Yeah it's not great
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lafolieisgood4 days ago
+122
Was it a data center or Foxconn who used eminent domain to get rid of a bunch of peoples houses and then decided they changed their mind? I think that was Wisconsin also.
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LiveNet27234 days ago
+118
It was Foxcon, AKA the [Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_Technology_Park) . When Foxcon failed to build the promised display panel manufacturing plant there was a pivot to data centers.
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TingleyStorm4 days ago
+19
Both. Port Washington residents were extremely opposed to a data center moving in, it only had about a 15% approval.
The city approved it anyways.
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Camwi4 days ago
+4
It was definitely a data center. Trying to find the original article, but there are now so many articles about so many data centers that it's become impossible to find.
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MarkPles4 days ago
+27
You might be thinking of my town in Wisconsin where the mayor said we would be able to vote on it, then probably got a fat paycheck from Oracle and told us to eat shit we're getting it anyway.
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The-Sonne4 days ago
+24
That's the whole problem
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dformed4 days ago
+33
The votes of a community mean less than nothing to these companies.
My city voted to prevent Walmart coming in. Walmart broke ground anyway. We got them to agree not to put in a Super center... Which they put in anyway. The city extracted several promises from Safeway when they were coming in, they broke every single one of them.
As far as big business is concerned local regulations don't exist.
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GoodOmens4 days ago
+54
Well you see that community is dumb and didn't get sent to the fancy presentation the data center executives put on during the all inclusive trip paid for by those same data center executives. Had they gone on that really nice trip and watched that presentation they'd understand.
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techieman334 days ago
+10
Look into all the shit Flock has done. Denver city council said no. So they got the mayor to sign a contract that was just a couple thousand dollars under the max he could sign without council approval. They’ve hired city council members to work for them. And there are countless others I’m sure. As long as there are no real consequences for buying politicians then they’ll just keep getting more and more aggressive about doing it.
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bunky_done_gun4 days ago
+5
Port Washington, right? It's ok to say the name of the city and call out the slimey cretin they have the misfortune to have as a mayor.
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rooftopgoblin4 days ago
+5
there was one in illinois had enough people for 5 hours of public comments and still voted unanimously for data centers. If peoples voice doesn't get heard a fraction of people are going to start looking for alternative solutions and we will see more of stuff like this
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metalflygon084 days ago
+3
Pretty sure the same thing is happening in various parts of the St. Louis area.
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cheesemagnifier3 days ago
+3
Ari Aster predicted all of this with his movie Eddington. Crazy times we live in.
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dalek_9994 days ago
+46
We're fighting a potential data center by me right now. The community has come out overwhelmingly against this - hundreds of people at township meetings, we've given away 600+ yard signs, and we've got a petition that has over 500 signatures already. For our little community, that is a pretty huge showing. And yet…our Township Board continues to insist that this would be a great thing for our community…
What the person in this article did is obviously not the way to go about it, but I can tell you as someone in the midst of that kind of battle right now - passions are high in communities like this, and people are starting to get angry. This happening does not surprise me.
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GreenPoint154 days ago
+76
So no one in Indiana wants this here 😂. If they do start construction on one I have the keys to every kind of heavy equipment they bring on site.
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pontiacfirebird924 days ago
+53
Why would they? Up until now they've never had to. As long as they bash liberals, Democrats, minorities, immigrants, and atheists they've been able to get away with whatever they wanted for a very long time. The people haven't held them accountable before. So now they can't.
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Big_Joosh3 days ago
+5
Okay so you’re advocating and condoning political violence? Got it.
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Disastrous_Front_5984 days ago
+34
So if the constituents disagree with each other, who should politicians follow- the one who shoot first?
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plan_that4 days ago
+2
For someone in local government, local councillors only have power within the scope of processes and legislation.
Hypothetically; if the only item that was available for them to vote on was the colour of the building it would be of no relevance whether they’re against the use of the building.
That’s a point that is missed about every week and educating both the community and the councillors doesn’t work anymore in the age of bs.
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ChariotOfFire4 days ago
+5
Would you still say this if you agreed with the politician? For example, most Americans oppose trans women playing sports with cis women. If a politician wants to let trans women play with cis women, would you support shooting at their house?
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Sterling_____Archer4 days ago
+5
The food (or electrical supply) has to be interrupted in order for people to get angry enough to revolt. Until then, folks won’t do anything.
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AaronBasedGodgers4 days ago
+6
They do. And by their constituents I mean the millionares and billionares who fund them.
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mdlinc4 days ago
+3
What kind of fuckery are you trying to pull?!!
/s
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coldrolledpotmetal3 days ago
+2
The will of constituents isn’t whoever shoots first
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Toxaplume0454 days ago
+872
When people feel like they aren't heard they start doing drastic shit. Data centers are overwhelmingly disliked by communities across the country and politicians keep approving them because of the money even despite opposition from their constituents. Meanwhile, the centers destroy the environment and increase the utility bills for everyone else.
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Krewtan4 days ago
+383
I was telling people on Facebook their utility bills would go up when they were implemented in my area. People laughed and said we have the lowest rates in the country.
Now everyone is like why has my electricity doubled since last year?
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rubywpnmaster4 days ago
+233
Oh man but think of all the jobs! All 5-15 of them.
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Krewtan4 days ago
+92
Yeah and the property values plummeting around them. The local paper is very friendly towards them and boasted about a small settlement they are offering landowners/homeowners in the vicinity. It didn't mention the fact that they give up their right to sue in the future.
It'll all give out when the AI crash finally comes. Cant prop this up for too long, there's going to be winners and losers in the best cast scenario. The investments made can't all pay off.
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Ok_Illustrator72324 days ago
+9
Can you really give up your right to sue in America?
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Balmong74 days ago
+16
In exchange for money? Yeah.
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Ok_Illustrator72324 days ago
+3
Very interesting, I'm a law student and in my country it's impossible to waive away a future right.
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Balmong74 days ago
+3
It’s all about the contract they signed. Basically saying “this money is us paying you to accept whatever is happening and you can’t change your mind later.”
It’s also like how a lot of contracts are like “you can’t sue unless you go through mediation for x timespan first”
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SassyKittyMeow4 days ago
+20
I bet there’s a lot of AI/CS/Networking experts with years of post-secondary education lining up in those communities for those jobs! /s
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rubywpnmaster4 days ago
+16
Oh boy have I got news for you if you think any of those people live at the datacenters. Okay you’ll find networking guys there occasionally but more realistic is for them to have hands on site to do any physical work while they work from a nice quiet office. Programmers and AI experts in my experience know f*** all when it comes to data center operations and have no desire to be there.
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trisanachandler4 days ago
+10
Nope, people like that are working remotely.
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rubywpnmaster4 days ago
+4
At best the AI guy calls screaming at you that the H100 isn’t detecting and he needs you to verify before making you call the vendor
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DoublePostedBroski4 days ago
+16
I laughed when the article said the guy was touting how the data center would “bring jobs to the community.”
Like, what, 2 jobs?
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Pete-PDX4 days ago
+14
the janitor and HVAC guy
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heyhayyhay4 days ago
+2
Electricity has doubled here, no data centers. People are getting their panties in a twist because they hear rumors about data centers.
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skatastic574 days ago
+2
What city/state/utility?
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ToiletPunisher194 days ago
+81
The city of Joliet just f****** did this shit despite damn near the entire town being heavily opposed to this. It’s crazy what a $10,000 bribe can buy you.
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Heisenberglund4 days ago
+9
So did festus mo.
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dabisnit4 days ago
+13
Sand Spings, OK. Now the citizens are trying to recall the city council. Don’t know if they get enough votes for it
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EnderWiggin074 days ago
+23
What money even? They're lightly staffed, most of the money spent goes to Nvidia and Asian chip fabs, and they get reduced electric rates that raise the average cost for regular users. This is a legitimate bipartisan issue where everybody who actually lives somewhere is against them regardless of party, and politicians support them regardless of power
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Toxaplume0454 days ago
+13
Bribes/kickbacks.
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DolphinsBreath4 days ago
+43
Even the Trump’s boot licking, FoxNews watching, right wingers I work with hate data centers.
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SomewhereNo83784 days ago
+41
there definitely is a bipartisan hatrid growing around them and AI companies.
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TiberiusCornelius4 days ago
+25
The vast majority of people I know regardless of political persuasion hate this shit. It's only the people who stand to get richer off the backs of it who want it.
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Toxaplume0454 days ago
+6
I noticed a lot of them were on board at the start but they changed tunes damn near immediately when their bills started going up and areas around the centers basically destroyed while no jobs were actually created since theu have specialty teams that travel build these then largely are maintained remotely.
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DolphinsBreath4 days ago
+7
And if they are living their slightly rural dream and on a well for drinking water they understand the threat coming from that much water consumption.
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DoublePostedBroski4 days ago
+6
Yeah but officials need those sweet sweet kickbacks
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Actual__Wizard4 days ago
+17
Yep, and the sudden approval of a bunch of data centers is causing the prices in the PC components market to "go out of control."
Ram that I paid $300 for is now $2,000... There's some really weird stuff going on and it should not have been approved.
The reality is: These companies are designing data centers for algorithms that are going to be antiquated before the data center is completed... There's massive optimizations that could be applied, that simply are not being applied, that would reduce their hardware requirements significantly... Then, there's a massive surge in new tech coming to market anyways... So, how do they even know they're buying the right stuff for their data centers?
I just don't understand the urgency... So, new tech came out that's not proven yet, so it's time for everybody to pile into buying data centers? Uh? What?
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CrashB1114 days ago
+10
It's because "AI" is a massive bubble and it's going to burst like the Housing market in 2008 the instant the craze slows down.
So people are working like madmen to keep that crazy train going as long as they can.
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Actual__Wizard4 days ago
+3
I think they mega massively over hyped it way too early... Even if it wasn't early and it rocked, it was still too much hype.
I honestly think in 2030 we're going to have ultra sick AI tech... But it's 2026 and we have, uh, problems... Yeah, we have problems... There's more than a few big problems...
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Thagyr4 days ago
+5
From what I understand it's the hype that's keeping it alive. It's all investors feeding the system, while companies invest in each other. The actual stable profit has yet to turn up.
They aren't expecting to make profit until 2030 in some cases. It's little wonder they are trying to shove it into anything and everything in an attempt to hook consumers. But personally I can't see it, since the pushback to AI has been consistant and damning.
It's no wonder Microsoft wants us to stop calling it 'slop'. They are gambling on it.
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Actual__Wizard4 days ago
+3
I just don't understand, specifically with Microsoft, how they didn't understand that their product just isn't worth ramming into stuff.
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Thagyr4 days ago
+3
It's competition and trying to join the sudden boom, and for better or worse AI is a massive shift in technology. It'd be a case if they didn't jump on it, somebody else would have (and already has).
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Actual__Wizard4 days ago
+2
That's the problem though. It's not really the big shift people think it is. We had automation tools forever, they're just harder to use. All LLMs did, was create versions of those tools that don't work right.
Certainly coding assistants is a big deal for some people, but I knew the truth about the fairy tales the whole time. Obviously now that the Anthropic source leaked out, there's no magic there. It's just a giant piece of complex software that talks to a big giant data model.
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Ishindri4 days ago
+2
C-levels are high on the idea of being able to fire people and replace them with computers. That's what's driving it, and that's why they continue to pursue it even though the technology does not work and will never work the way they want. Because they want to get rid of all their human employees and pocket the money.
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Fallouttgrrl4 days ago
+3
"my re-election isn't going to be won by the poor"
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hucareshokiesrul4 days ago
+7
At least where I am, politicians like data centers (and casinos) because they bring in tax revenue. And people don't want data centers or casinos. But they also don't want tax increases. Or service cuts. And they want housing prices to go down, but they don't want anybody to build housing. And a bunch of other things but not the stuff that makes those things possible.
It's a lot of this basically https://frinkiac.com/meme/S12E17/191191.jpg?b64lines=IEkgd2FudCBldmVyeXRoaW5nIGluIG9uZQogYmFnLgoKCgogWWVzLCBtYSdhbS4KCgogQnV0IEkKIGRvbid0IHdhbnQgdGhlIGJhZyB0byBiZQogaGVhdnku
So they're in kind of a tough spot and lots of people are going to be pissed off either way.
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Toxaplume0454 days ago
+16
There's no tax revenue and there's no jobs. I've watched hearings and been at local hearings about data centers. What they do is tell the politicians that they'll create a ton of high paying jobs with the construction and running of the center in exchange for approval to build it and a decade long gigantic tax reprieve and utility assistance, and then offer "generous" campaign donations for them to just ignore that it's a lie.
Then when the centers get built, they hire minimal amounts of local folks to break ground, bring in specialized travel teams owned by the parent company to build it, then run the centers largely remotely except for a skeleton crew of staff needed for physical maintenance.
Then the taxpayers end up on the hook for the environmental damage, utility costs since those costs and increased energy usage get passed onto everyone else, and there's no jobs or tax revenue created.
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hucareshokiesrul4 days ago
+5
There aren't a lot of jobs but there is (or at least can be) tax revenue, though. One county in my state gets almost 40% of its revenue from data centers. Another, in a rural area, gets 25%.
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thatnameagain4 days ago
+1
People need to stop forgetting about elections as the time to be heard
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Volgner4 days ago
+1
I don't like your first sentence because some people could have serious illegitimate reasons not to be heard.
Example 1: January 6.
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LaylaLost4 days ago
+88
Eddington predicted this
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Newone12554 days ago
+53
So did Ted Kaczynski
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Any_Juggernaut_97993 days ago
+5
they hated him because he spoke the truth. shame about the bomb stuff tho
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LilPonyBoy694 days ago
+16
Best movie of the year and wasn't even nominated
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Juunlar4 days ago
+2110
A republican who constantly heralded the importance of the second amendment and its use against a government that doesn't adhere to the will of the people is somehow surprised that a citizen would shoot at the home of a government official who didn't adhere to the will of the people.
No opinion by me. Just laying it out
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Treima4 days ago
+551
He's actually a [Democrat](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/indianapolis-city-council-home-shot-at-data-centers)
Let's not pretend politicians in both parties are not incredibly happy to get in bed with big tech.
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sorestgore4 days ago
+21
See I don't like this at all. The second highest upvoted comment is the one you're replying to and it's incorrect?
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laffer14 days ago
+6
Democrats and republicans are taking kickbacks from big tech for age verification laws in pcs. Lots of money to be had for them. Not to mention it’s also in project 2025 so dems will support it with enough cash.
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LorderNile4 days ago
+234
At the end of the day, it just feels like republicans are there to make things worse quickly, and democrats are there to pretend things can improve and keep the people quiet.
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FlagrentBugbear4 days ago
+61
During the 41 days of a congressional democratic supermajoirty we got Obama care/ACA if we had one more senator we would have gotten the public option instead.
It really seems to me that people like you love to make shit up to make sure shit never gets better.
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1QAte44 days ago
+29
I am professionally involved with politics at a state level. The amount of people who are negative and cynical about politics is like 100 to 1 to people who actually get involved.
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syynapt1k4 days ago
+29
We also got a significant amount of [meaningful legislation during Biden's term](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046). Democrats have lots of problems and are far from ideal, but they are nowhere near as destructive as Republicans - who have no interest in actually governing.
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DG_FANATIC4 days ago
+34
You nailed it with that comment imo.
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eldersveld4 days ago
+9
And both have an expiration date. Oracle execs just got death threats after their bloodbath of layoffs. The United Healthcare CEO got taken out. Etc. People have had enough and many of them are also armed
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Vegetable-Error-20684 days ago
+5
Yep. Democrats are the shield of the oligarchy, and Republicans are the sword.
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Downtown_Skill4 days ago
+5
You know, it's a nice quip.
But do you think democrats and Republicans would be this divided amongst themselves if they were all bought by the same people.
I'm talking division within the parties not just division between them.
Are both parties manipulated by the same people? Sure.
But this oversimplification of portraying the Democrats and Republicans as both bought and paid for is the exact kind of misunderstanding that allows people to tolerate when actual corruption is thrown in their faces..... like recently.
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WillitsThrockmorton3 days ago
+6
16 hours and /u/Juunlar still hasn't corrected his 2000+ upvoted top comment.
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ChariotOfFire4 days ago
+21
It's very on brand that the top comment is a blatant falsehood that can be checked with a quick Google search
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twentyafterfour3 days ago
+2
It should have been obvious he was a democrat when he didn't fold under immense pressure from outside interests (local folks) trying to stop him from doing something good for his constituents (a california data center company).
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lostroadrunner224 days ago
+1
Money, sex, and drugs know no party affiliation.
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AccountOfMyDarkside4 days ago
+111
I wish you wrote the headlines. You'd have been an excellent writer for Cliff's notes. Or Cliff himself, maybe.
Sorry. This happens sometimes when I agree with someone on the internet after I've hit my pen.
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DankVectorz4 days ago
+38
Except the guy is a Democrat, not a Republican
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drinkduffdry4 days ago
+32
Put down the pen, literally and figuratively.
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Dio-lated14 days ago
+8
Tis mighter than the sword
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ChicagoAuPair4 days ago
+8
Genius of the res-to-ration...
Aid our own re-sus-ci-tation.
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mouse65024 days ago
+2
Got lost in his own museum, eh?
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Wizchine4 days ago
+182
That colon in the title is sneaky: I thought a "No Data Centers" councilor's home was attacked. But apparently the attacker is the "No Data Centers" person.
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hakenwithbacon4 days ago
+21
I thought it was "No, Data Centers!"
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klitchell4 days ago
+61
This is a mouthful “Indianapolis City-County Councilor “
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LikeALiamOnATree4 days ago
+37
Sounds like he was visited by the Rural Juror
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pontiacfirebird924 days ago
+105
The problem is this guy can take steps to ensure the data center gets built, then take the wad of money they give him and skip town forever. He can flee the country if he wants and live comfortably while his constituents suffer.
Same thing happened in Southaven, MS when, against the will of the citizens, the permits for the polluting and noisy turbines for their data center got approval (they had been running without permits since it was constructed and nobody did anything about it). Several city councilmen suddenly retired after that.
These data centers are going up in Republican areas because they know the governments there are captured and the people in those areas have voted away their voice and their power (in order to own the libs or attack whatever demographic they are holding a grudge against at that moment). So any fellow Republican opposition falls on the same deaf ears that don't listen to liberal or Democratic voices.
That's the problem with voting away your voice and your power in your government. You don't get those rights back when it's convenient for you. They stay gone. When the bad shit starts to happen to you the people you elected to attack the "out-group" will turn on you as well.
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TiberiusCornelius4 days ago
+18
> The problem is this guy can take steps to ensure the data center gets built, then take the wad of money they give him and skip town forever.
And even if he doesn't skip town he has the power to decide where these things get built and can conveniently prevent it from impacting his personal quality of life. In a small town it's one thing but Indianapolis isn't really small geographically. He can conveniently approve a permit or pass a new zoning ordinance that lets these things go up with abandon somewhere that ruins things for an entire neighborhood and yet won't come within noise or sightline of his house, and I'm sure any sweet kickbacks will help with his electric bills.
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izzymaestro4 days ago
+12
Nothing really different from the history of growth in America starting with Manhattan. Always conveniently placing their industrial and traffic zones in black and minority areas.
People are finally pissed that the Epstein class is doing the same to white people who once considered themselves middle class.
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txroller4 days ago
+15
🖕 The sheep keep voting in the wolves. Take my humble upvote for a post better written then mine
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Alternative_Dot77694 days ago
+17
Get them scared enough of brown and trans people, and they’ll let you do whatever you want to them.
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artbystorms4 days ago
+26
Maybe if politicians started listening to their voters then their voters wouldn't want to shoot them. Politicians should be afraid of the people, not the other way around.
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Silent_Trade2714 days ago
+24
I don’t get it. The company pushing for the data center offered them a god-awful deal. The jobs that they promised are *not* going to go to people in that city. The effect on the environment will be permanent. And the data center will not be a good local neighbor. The data center companies promise to throw so many million dollars into the city is nice and all, but that money will disappear very quickly, and the long-term damage from the data center will stay forever. This guy is actually a fool.
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braxin234 days ago
+15
He probably got some under table bribes for saying yes and thinks he can move away from his shitty little town.
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arxaion4 days ago
+29
Crazy - you mean going directly against the best interests of all your constituents and outright ignoring those that put you in office for the sake of making a buck is a bad idea?
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Zardotab4 days ago
+5
What if a robot did it?
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SupaTheBaked4 days ago
+36
Yeah he should probably listen to his constituents
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PraxicalExperience4 days ago
+11
Politicians really need to start fearing their constituencies when they keep ignoring their wishes again.
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pleachchapel4 days ago
+57
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Contradictions in society reach a certain point at which the greed of the ruling class directly creates the conditions of their own undoing. History bears this out over & over again.
Between the current sellout shit-show (one family owns like 70% of media), an Iran war showing us to be Israel's lapdogs, & an Epstein list completely free of a SINGLE arrest (also deeply tied to items #1 & #2), the ruling class is begging you to do something—& they shouldn't get surprised when someone does.
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crapbag294 days ago
+11
This is how we know AI is not good for America. They want it so badly.
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winpickles4life4 days ago
+12
Why didn’t they just shoot the cooling system?
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GoblinObscura4 days ago
+17
Left or right literally no on want data centers anywhere near them and our representatives need to understand that.
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Temporary_Maybe114 days ago
+3
[ Removed by Listnook ]
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AnimeWarTune4 days ago
+7
this is only the beginning
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DetectiveRiggs4 days ago
+8
Doesn't look like anything to me.
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VagabondReligion4 days ago
+10
My tiny violin is broken from so much use.
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capitalistsanta4 days ago
+4
The response of "this will not deter me" to your house getting shot up, and a note being left on your front door reading "No Data Centers" is not the correct response here.
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Designer-Fix-28614 days ago
+8
This is the biggest mistake AI companies are making: putting infrastructure in red states and counties where land is c****. Sure, the land is c**** — but be prepared for people to hate on the things making rich people richer, and poor people’s quality of life worse. Couple that with locals who f****** hate “big tech” and “lib elites”. True or not, it’s a recipe for risk.
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Shitboxfan694 days ago
+4
The you have the question of if its long term or not. AI is still new and it seems a lot of these centers are built around where it could go, not where it is.
What happens if/when these AI companies go bust because it's an oversaturated market built on speculation? Are the companies going to go bankrupt and leave the counties giving them these sweetheart deals with the clean up?
These data center companies don't give a shit. They'll plow up fertile land and build noisy polluting facilities in people's backyard, the execs will get their fast cash, and when it crashes it'll be up to the county tax payers to clean up but it'll never return to how it was.
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tehCharo4 days ago
+7
If rednecks are the downfall of AI and data centers, they're okay in my book.
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cecilivan4 days ago
+5
Well, I haven't forgotten the Battle of Blair Mountain. 🫡
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Raaamble4 days ago
+1
You would think that, but some politician or influencer will say that disliking data centers is “woke”. That’ll be enough for them to make up their mind.
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MysteryCheese733 days ago
+4
Maybe he’ll reconsider listening to his constituents
These data centers all need to be burned down
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DoublePostedBroski4 days ago
+3
You get what you vote for
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XIII_THIRTEEN4 days ago
+4
Political violence should never be condoned... but what exactly would you expect to happen when you try to build noisy pollution machines where people live?
So sick of politicians ignoring the will of the people that elected them in the first place.
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Kindly-Guidance7144 days ago
+26
Noisy pollution machines that got tax rebates by the states they are built in while simultaneously raising local water and electricity prices to unseen levels.
These things are far worse than people actually realize.
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Lantzypantzz4 days ago
+16
Our country was founded on political violence. The constitution, some could say, endorses and even promotes political violence when such politicians are tyrannical and don't listen to the will of the people
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Shitboxfan694 days ago
+6
Our constitution is literally a list of things that got in their way while committing political violence.
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All_Hail_Hynotoad4 days ago
+2
I have absolutely no sympathy for this guy
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xsubo3 days ago
+2
Vote your moronic politician out
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Four_in_binary4 days ago
+2
You gotta do what you have to
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Borisof0074 days ago
+2
Is this another situation where he shot up his own house and put a note under his mat to try and play the victim? Wouldn't be the first time
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LostOne5144 days ago
+2
If it weren't for him having a son I wouldn't feel bad at all. It's wrong to do fire upon the home yes, but I would have zero sympathy. He's screwing everyone in that town despite the people's demands....
But keeps the kids out of it man. They've done nothing wrong.
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Andy_LaVolpe4 days ago
+1
When politicians go against the will of the people, democracy stops working.
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OLPopsAdelphia4 days ago
+1
Well, is he now anti data center?
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sleeptightburner3 days ago
+1
Wouldn’t shock me to find out this was sponsored by the data center lobbyists in order to taint the anti-data center movement.
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cribsaw3 days ago
+1
What are people supposed to do when their government completely ignores their safety and welfare? What do people in power expect them to do?
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