Yea, I think I fundamentally agree with everyone responding to me. This whole situation sucks. I just hope that people keep the hate on data centers and not on eminent domain (which wasn’t even used here). If this was needed because of unexpected energy consumption from a new low income housing development or a new free community college, would people still be upset? I hope not.
I know this is the fuck ai community, so we all know what’s up, but I hate seeing eminent domain be viewed as the bad guy. Ideally community improvements affect no one negatively, but sometimes they do. If they were not compensated fairly that is a problem, but at the end of the day the article is “community needed more power and these people suffered for it.” I really hope it’s stoking anti data center sentiment and not anti government sentiment, though obviously fuck the government for not doing anything to stop the data center.
I do understand why they didn’t include what they were paid, but if they were paid fairly then I don’t know what else they wanted from the power company. If they want an apology from someone it should be from their reps who are letting these tech companies ruin our country. Though I’m sure the power company is also garbage.
Appreciate your response regardless. Again, totally agree that the AI data centers should not exist, especially not where power is limited and it’ll affect the community.
Yea, I think I fundamentally agree with everyone responding to me. This whole situation sucks. I just hope that people keep the hate on data centers and not on eminent domain (which wasn’t even used here). If this was needed because of unexpected energy consumption from a new low income housing development or a new free community college, would people still be upset? I hope not.
I know this is the fuck ai community, so we all know what’s up, but I hate seeing eminent domain be viewed as the bad guy. Ideally community improvements affect no one negatively, but sometimes they do. If they were not compensated fairly that is a problem, but at the end of the day the article is “community needed more power and these people suffered for it.” I really hope it’s stoking anti data center sentiment and not anti government sentiment, though obviously fuck the government for not doing anything to stop the data center.
I do understand why they didn’t include what they were paid, but if they were paid fairly then I don’t know what else they wanted from the power company. If they want an apology from someone it should be from their reps who are letting these tech companies ruin our country. Though I’m sure the power company is also garbage.
Appreciate your response regardless. Again, totally agree that the AI data centers should not exist, especially not where power is limited and it’ll affect the community.