Genuinely I wish someone would put sugar into their concrete, like we need more direct protest of this shit

If you look at the city of Tehran, right now, they are talking of evacuating a city of 15 million souls because - no more water.

If reports are true, much of the us southwest is only a few years and one bad rain season away from the same fate.

Allowing these monstrosities to consume all your potable water just seems like madness.

And they are building 27 of these fucking things around my area with no oversight from the community. There was supposed to be meeting with the company building one in Coweta, it was going be a chance for the public to speak out. But company canceled the meeting.

City council approved this data center without and of the community input.

I watched the video included with the article. One of those poor, poor seniors was asked whether she was kept informed. She said no, saying she only gets updates from the internet and her Facebook.

I'm not the first to ever say it, but there's a clear lack of infrastructure when someone still turns to the very same company's platform for updates and barely knows what's going on. There's no respect for community here, no involvement of stakeholders, no thought to the people who live there. For what? A corporate installation that may be built on fuddy duddy accounting to keep up appearances for an AI Bubble?

Ya ok sure, but have you seen the funny AI videos of Michael Jackson stealing shit from the home depot?

Let’s attack these places en masse and burn them down.

Place sure is big. So big that I wouldn't be surprised if some stray long range bullets didn't end up coming down on the property every so often by pure chance. There's all these unsafe desert yokels out hunting and shooting all the time. Wouldn't that put a damper on operations. Workers and construction crews having to run for cover as bullets crack over head. Then having to evacuate, shut down and let the police comb the place top to bottom collecting bullet fragments.

Then when everything is back to normal what if it happened again? And again? and again? It's a wonder they could get any work done at all. And It'd be a heck a of a thing to protect against if the shots came from different places every time.

They'd about have to have a Groom lake-size security buffer around every single one of these places. Boy wouldn't that get expensive.

And don't get me started on the damage that incendiary/tracer or heavy steel penetration rounds would do to all those pipes, machinery and sensitive coolant systems.

Unrelated, but everyone should check out some of those lower cost 50 BMG rifles that are out now. Those sure are neat.

Read the headline and thought: that's going to be a red state. Clicked on it and confirmed.

Hey, if they want water so much, why don't we help them out?

Let's pour some buckets inside the servers to help them cool even better!

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The threat of trucks crashing into schools isn’t the only problem that the data center has brought. Local residents Joseph and Robin Williams told WWNO that they’ve noticed their tap water is frequently rust colored since Meta started building the data center, and they say their electricity frequently goes off for hours on end with no warning.

Wow you'd expect this in a third world country, not a place that should have standards 🙄 And is the richest in the world.

I'm projecting, as more corporations have more money than the local government and possibly the state, these small rural towns are going to get taken advantage of. The voices saying no will be ignored for the "prosperity" of the city or district. All while these data centers offer almost no long term jobs and abusing the city services like power and water.

It used to just be large developers for suburban sprawl and golf courses but AI is the new game in town.

Bottles and gasoline are relatively cheap.

Or you can sit there and take it. Those are your options.

Seems pretty standard for the south. Let companies come in and wreck the land up because they've promised jobs and profits. Then the companies leave and the residents are confused what happened. So they do the only thing they know how to do, wait for the next corporate benefactors to come in and promise profits and jobs.

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