My grandfather had a large church build next to him and their construction practices led to a bunch of sediment getting dumped in his pond. This was also semi rural Georgia. He fought and got some sort of settlement, I don’t know the specifics but he was able to fix the problem. But it took years of time, his dining room table was always covered in documents and plans about it. They wanted to make it out to be some sort of racial thing (old white man doesn’t like black church moving in). Even though he got that settlement it was a bunch of pain he had to go through.
I hope this woman gets justice. She’s against an even bigger foe. Meta makes such an absolutely ming boggling amount of money, they could easily make this right for this woman, but every SVP is worried about how their numbers are gonna look and if they pay some woman out it will probably cost them some promotion. All because of a flawed rewards structure.
Make it right, Zucc.
For her problem, it sounds more like her pump is sitting too low in the well.
In general though, data centers should all be banned from using evaporative cooling. Yeah it can be cheaper, but it causes too many issues when you start using it at scale.
What’s the issue with it?
It uses up fresh water
What’s the other option?
Recycling the cooling water in a closed system. Which they totally can do, and works as well if not better, but it costs more money to set up, y’see.
Well sounds like something the local government should be regulating instead of you know… Providing endless state aid for these developments. Local plebs forgo tax revenue, their eletric bill spikes to subsidize electric for these parasites, water is poluted.
With a government like this who needs enemies
The local government sees $$$ (or gets out-and-out bribed) and so they sign off on it. After all, why should they care if some plebeians have their electric bill go up?
To be fair, several local governments have shot these down. One in Arizona just voted 7-0 to not let one in. But they’re so sneaky and so free with money a lot of governments just let them slide in without residents even knowing.
Then move. Honestly, America is fucking huge. If youre renting, just move. Leave whatever shit hole you currently live in that being destroyed by companies or shitty politics. Let these places die. Be they small towns, or entire states. Take your tax money, and go to a new home.
Wrong comment young bro. People may not have the assets to move. This could be their childhood neighborhood, and they can’t move and all of a sudden Meta bribed the local leadership to build a fucking huge data center and then the locals are F’ed
Yeah good luck even selling your house (if you own one) in that area. Bet you’re home value tanked.
Damn… HoA couldn’t protect that housing value smh
While I don’t agree with that comments framing. It has a kernel of truth within it.
Meta ain’t moving that’s just america 101. So there is only one other way for a peasant to fix this issue. And if you are too poor to fix it, nobody cares. Your government literally provided meta with tax incentives and maybe even helped them procure the land.
Nobody gives a fuck if some loser plebs lose their way of life. A small price to pay for obtaining an income producing asset.
So there is only one other way to a peasant to fix this issue.
They… they could…
They could set the building on fire.
They don’t call it the class war for nothing.
But they have all that water that’s still good for dousing fires even if its not drinkable. 😩
“If youre renting, just move” is what I said.
Aint not a fucking thing holding you a to place you dont own. You can move anywhere in the US, which, last time I checked, was fucking massive. Theres no excuse for not leaving a state that treats you like shit, or a local company thats moved in and is fucking everything up. Need I remind you all about Dupont posining the fucking world for 30+ years? And all the locals were getting cancers and other fucked up things, because they were dumping C8 into the water.
You can all stay if you like, but moaning about something and expecting others to take action, is just dumb.
“But, but, but I grew up here!”
So fucking what? You wanna get sick there? You wanna die there? If you can move, you should move. Simple as that.
How many of them voted for this though?
When have you ever in your life had direct voting power over a corporate construction project?
The great part about being in a democracy is that if it’s working correctly you almost always lose.
If it’s anything like our city, they literally come in and try and get it through under complete NDA such that the city officials aren’t allowed to discuss who they are doing the project for. And they had obviously co-opted the city manager somehow—he fought valiantly to get it passed in the face of the entire city council and mayor. Plus, a third party does all the brokering to act as a further shield from knowing who the ultimate client is. We got wind of it here in time and just stopped Project Blue for AWS here in Tucson by all showing up at all the meetings (the idea of a massive data center that uses like 2k acre feet of water a year in a desert in a drought is hilariously terrible and dystopian).
Also, I should add that the actual result of us stopping them in Tucson is that they will now try and get it passed in either unincorporated Pima County or in a smaller satellite city somewhere around us. So it remains to be seen if they still manage to ram this extreme water and power usage through in spite of the wishes of the residents or not…
(And I should also add, this is a pretty heavily Democrat-leaning space—about the only one in AZ. Republicans hardly even try and run here some years.)
Victim blaming.
