Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban

JuniperMesos•about 3 hours ago

Anti-data-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite media class (i.e. the kinds of people who write for Politico), who are scared of AI. I wish the US had better constitutional protections for people who want to build infrastructure in spite of short-sighted or malicious activist opposition.

aggakake•about 3 hours ago

I'm getting a shill vibe from the shill accusation.

usefulcat•about 2 hours ago

Is it really that difficult to believe that these residents—many of whom are living out in the country by choice—really just don’t want this kind of development near them? And that they have taken action of their own volition?

I laughed out loud at the suggestion that rural Texans are reading Politico, or any other “elite media” for that matter. I say this as someone who has lived in TX for decades.

ETA: to be fair, I'm not saying that what you describe never happens, but no way is this an example of it.

JuniperMesos•32 minutes ago

Yeah, there probably are some rural people who just reflexively oppose any kind of construction, NIMBYs are everywhere. The psyop is Politico writing an article in support of them, instead of comparing what they're doing to redlining or some other historic phenomenon that the Politico writers see as racist against nonwhites.

petee•about 2 hours ago

And you're 100% ok if it were being built immediately outside your window, right?

JuniperMesos•35 minutes ago

Yes. In fact I assume there are multiple data centers built in the same urban area I live in, perhaps not very far from me.

amazingamazing•about 1 hour ago

I would personally, why not (generally curious why there is opposition. Things such as the whole electric infrastructure costs being passed on to consumers is not inherent to a data center build, just a failure in policy).

iloveoof•about 1 hour ago

This is like saying that you should oppose electricity or factories if you don’t want them in your backyard.

king_geedorah•about 1 hour ago

If given the choice, which would you prefer?

A) An electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside

B) No electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside

add-sub-mul-div•about 3 hours ago

This is incredible. On the range from zero to multiple layers of irony it's a great read regardless of where it lands.

fakedang•about 2 hours ago

Data-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite techbro class (i.e. the kinds of people who write comments like these), who are scared of the middle class. I wish the US had better constitutional protections for people who want to protect their quality of life and their jobs in spite of short-sighted or malicious billionaire opposition.

Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban

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