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re: Fat black lady stops $5B AI data center in her hood. $13.7M in tax revenue gone

Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:44 am to
Posted by Azkiger
Member since Nov 2016
29383 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:44 am to
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Data centers are boondoggles. Change my mind.


What's your experience with AI?
Posted by ClientNumber9
Member since Feb 2009
10302 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:48 am to
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Data centers are boondoggles. Change my mind.


You're a fool. Everyone suddenly hates data centers but you know what they DO love? All the AI in their lives. How do you think this massive thirst for data space is created? Funny thing is, people like you bitch about slow internet and AI lag times but bitch about data centers. Turn in your cell phone, then you might have a case.
Posted by G I Jeaux
off duty
Member since Aug 2009
2567 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:54 am to
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let's make it worse with the constant hum of a data center.



You will hear nothing unless you go inside. the only sound is the cooling fans in each rack. The fans are about 4 inches by 4 inches. There are 2 per rack.
Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
14251 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:54 am to
Yet Prince George's county (her county, huge majority black) decries the fact that businesses are not coming and there are many grocery 'deserts.' Is it any wonder?!?! Actions do indeed have consequences.
Posted by El Segundo Guy
1-866-DHS-2-ICE
Member since Aug 2014
11892 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:58 am to
I'd be pissed as hell if I lived in a town getting a data center. I don't give a frick about AI. I don't use it, have never used it and never will.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
185999 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 9:58 am to
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Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States.

PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million.

Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp.

In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono?

More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.




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Posted by conservativewifeymom
Mid Atlantic
Member since Oct 2012
14251 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:01 am to
What do you expect for stupid?!?! It is nothing but low IQ losers like this who are 'leading' their communities into ruin.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
185999 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:01 am to
Data centers aren't nearly as concerning as solar farms and/or carbon capture

CC is concerning mostly because we truly have no idea what happens to those sites long-term.

Solar farms are self-explanatory. They're ugly, decrease property values, are inefficient, kill wildlife, and the only reason companies build them is to get the tax credits. Without the tax credits, they would never get built because they do not actually make money without subsidies.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
51108 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:01 am to
But defund the police and spend triple the amount on social services.

Bananas & rice for everyone!
Posted by WWII Collector
Member since Oct 2018
9613 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:03 am to
Is she making a famous White Power sign?

OMG.. This project was stopped because of White Supremacy.

This post was edited on 11/10/26 at 10:07 am
Posted by partsman103
Member since Sep 2008
8930 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:23 am to
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The same people who signed on to stop this will complain about underfunded social programs in their hood


BOOM gif
Posted by BobBoucher
Member since Jan 2008
18957 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:23 am to
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However, they argue the trade-off protects local electricity rates, water resources, and air quality.


Low IQ voters being misinformed by China.

They generate their own power and contribute to the grid lowering costs. And water systems are closed not requiring a constant large scale source.
Posted by Bamafig
Member since Nov 2018
7332 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:29 am to
She fought to preserve the beauty of Urban Blight. It’s a stinky dirty diaper, but it’s mine!!
Posted by BlackAdam
Member since Jan 2016
7376 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:29 am to
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Data centers are boondoggles. Change my mind.


I tend to agree. The footprints are massive, and they employ relatively few people.

Almost any other industrial application would take less land, require less power, and employ more people. And... by the time many of them are online, we will be launching them into space anyway.

I get that the capex is impressive, and local governments like the PILOT payments they are getting up front, but long term I think they leave a lot to be desired.
Posted by El Segundo Guy
1-866-DHS-2-ICE
Member since Aug 2014
11892 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:34 am to
At this point, I dont give a damn about what China does. We've got bigger issues right now than China.

And I'd bet the people of Muskogee, OK up the road a few hours from me, don't give a shite about Chinese propaganda. The people near Project Scissortail are having their property devalued to peanuts because of the big data center being built there.

You can talk about tax base from data centers all you like, but when you devalue someone's biggest investment, they get fighting mad.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
18318 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:38 am to
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let's make it worse with the constant hum of a data center.



You will hear nothing unless you go inside. the only sound is the cooling fans in each rack. The fans are about 4 inches by 4 inches. There are 2 per rack.

Neighbors bitch about grid strain. DC operators build on site generation capacity. Neighbors then bitch about generator noise.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
144019 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:44 am to
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The same people who signed on to stop this will complain about underfunded social programs in their hood


Food deserts
Posted by Sleepy_Tiger
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Aug 2021
12912 posts
Posted on 11/10/26 at 11:13 am to
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Data centers are boondoggles. Change my mind.
You lazy frick, why dont you give us facts to support your statment and change our minds.
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