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before we get subsumed in glonzo talk I would recommend reading the article. the back room deal started in april 2024. I don't remember data centers being on the tops of peoples mind then like it is now. and most of the locals cited are supportive of the data centers (some have certainly been hurt)

Sometimes killing Glonzo just sends him to the jurisdiction with the least sociopolitical power

this is the really depressing part of it, i suspect most of the opposition is ambivalent to data centers being built in the black south and driven by turbines powered by used motor oil

200,000 sqft building that employs 8 people with masters degrees. Love this for Louisiana

In many cases, they’re just going to build behind-the-meter generation and batteries, instead of funding grid upgrades

You know that their power usage is just one of a whole laundry list of problems these things bring to an area, right? Just one of a LONG list. Cooperating in a negotiated way in building these things that, IMO, haven't even proven their right to exist to begin with? Is being beggars to our demise.

Tale as old as time? Interstates plowed through black neighborhoods because they didn't have political power to resist like white neighbors Blue collar workers unionized, so companies offshored to China. And when those workers gained some power, they moved to new poorest in Bangladesh and Vietnam.

And in Canada's right-wing province of Alberta, although it's not poor.