@jason @Jason

6h ago

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The shopping mall closed 24 years ago and was leveled. A data center developer offers to build but gets blocked—leaving the struggling community without jobs, a tax base and the ability to negotiate other concessions. This NPR story compares it to the civil rights struggle and MLK. Yes, data centers are the equivalent of the civil rights movement 🤦 My lord, we’ve lost the script, and China is laughing at us while they catch up and conceivably bear us to superintelligence. Best advice: ask them to downsize the Data Center to half the space, require closed-loop water systems and have them build a giant trade school adjacent to the data center, offering free engineering and construction training to local community residents.