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re: Big Tech Is Buying Up America’s Land—and Home Builders Can’t Compete
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:37 pm to dalefla
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:37 pm to dalefla
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Zoning laws can control some of this at the city and county level, right?
At least from the article:
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Local zoning can make it easier and faster to build data centers than housing.
I can somewhat understand that, as local zoning probably requires (or should) pre home construction projects like retention ponds, drainage and roads to either be built, or funded for by the builder.
Data center doesn't need all what say...2,000 homes need. At the same time, though, how much electricity at a discount and how much water is each data center sucking up?
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Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:45 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
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Bill Gates has been buying rural land for years and years now. A large chunk in Louisiana
He's a fraction of the largest private acreage and property owner. Hold your hat:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions and millions of acres and buildings.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:48 pm to Shreve Perry
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions and millions of acres and buildings.
Shhh....we're not supposed to point that out.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:06 pm to ragincajun03
America is on the way to becoming an overpopulated shithole with cheap warehouses dotting what was once beautiful scenery.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:24 pm to dalefla
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Are they having the land rezoned for commercial versus residential or agricultural?
That was going to be my question...most cities have zoned residential and zoned commercial so it feels like something is missing here.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:25 pm to dalefla
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Are they having the land rezoned for commercial versus residential or agricultural? Zoning laws can control some of this at the city and county level, right?
A lot of rural areas dont have any zoning regs at all.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:45 pm to ragincajun03
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Been there, done that. The whole wild cattle thing was interesting. Little did the Feds know...it's impossible to find an impartial jury of 12 in that county, ESPECIALLY when Skeet is the defendant.
What ever happened? I saw the indictment but then never saw any news about it.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 6:52 pm to Jim Rockford
A developer wanting to build 500 homes doesn't sound that rural because of the infrastrure required to sustain.
Anyway, I was just curious.
Anyway, I was just curious.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 7:05 pm to ManBearTiger
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Once these data centers become obsolete they will be repurposed as massive crime-riddled projects similar to what we saw in the Karl Urban Dredd movie
Not too far off the mark. (most sci-fi is predictive programming anyway)
There are some theories afoot that many MANY of the sprawling so-called "AI Data Centers" aren't actually; they are future "projects" or detention centers for the "naughty and disobedient".
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:03 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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That was going to be my question...most cities have zoned residential and zoned commercial so it feels like something is missing here.
If you are spending $50 million just on land… $20k for some campaign contributions is real easy…
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:04 pm to ragincajun03
Where is all this money coming from? Who is funding all these projects?
Also why can’t these abandoned mall sites be used?
Also why can’t these abandoned mall sites be used?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:23 pm to NIH
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Good. We need to get AI going to displace woke white collar workers and woke Hollywood. This is how we win.
While it's satisfying to think of at first, in the end they'll just come for your house instead. "But my house is paid off" you say. Ask the people in Nashville that are about to lose their land because of a massive property tax increase how much that will save you.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:46 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Who is funding all these projects?
Do you have a 401k?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 10:43 pm to DesScorp
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While it's satisfying to think of at first, in the end they'll just come for your house instead. "But my house is paid off" you say. Ask the people in Nashville that are about to lose their land because of a massive property tax increase how much that will save you.
Exactly. I know it’s tinfoil hat time, and I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it really is the rich and elite walking all over everyone. They don’t care about this country, rather power, control and green…and I don’t mean nature. Nothing is sacred to them. The real civil war is about class, not race or nationality.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 4:29 am to ragincajun03
Wait until you see your electric bills down the road. I’ve been buying utility stocks for this reason.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 7:42 am to ragincajun03
why are we not building the data centers in the deserts of Nevada, arizona and texas? use solar to power as much as possible and mini nuclear reactors and build them outside of current metro areas.
what am i missing here?
what am i missing here?
Posted on 2/19/26 at 7:49 am to lsu777
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what am i missing here?
Cooling
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:20 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Cooling
ok then why are they building in the south? I mean i understand the radiant cooling is much better than the desert but if temps is a big issue and that is not off set by the solar then they need to be building in cooler climates
i understand much of this is driven by tax incentives but still doesnt make a ton of sense to be building by a major metro imo
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:09 am to lsu777
Good aquifer water, and closer to the consumer.
They can be cooled with closed loop cooling which will work basically anywhere on earth but its expensive. States allow these companies to use aquifer water to cool their shite which is cheap and easy to do but consumes massive amounts of ground water
They can be cooled with closed loop cooling which will work basically anywhere on earth but its expensive. States allow these companies to use aquifer water to cool their shite which is cheap and easy to do but consumes massive amounts of ground water
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:13 am to ragincajun03
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Are you trying to replace El Gaucho?
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