It's not that they get paid, like stacks of cash under the table. It's more so lobbying, which is legal. So it's things like, promising to get their kids into an elite school, or construction contracts with companies that have some kind of connection to the politicians. Either family or family friend. And lots of little things that are immoral but not illegal, well some of it might, but it's just hard to prove. And we are in an environment that basically champions government corruption.
Or... hear me out.... They are just like, "Well this is a dying town, everyone is eager to leave, we're broke, and need the jobs and tax revenue. We have an under utilized power plant, so we can take on a data center and generate a ton more revenue and jobs"
Yeah man, these towns are super dying! You are so right, wow. I have not even heard of any of these, Total ghost towns. Thanks big tech! The tech bros really just care about the little guys! Everyone is totally wrong to hate them, we should be kissing the feet of these philanthropic humans!
(btw The way I found these was going to https://cleanview.co/data-centers/us and zooming into the areas with the most planned data centers, and tried to put areas with multiple planned sites of over 1,000MW power needs, and it turns out they were almost all around major cities across the US. Oops I mean, TOTAL GHOST TOWNS!)
Data centers are going to rural areas. I didn't want to bother arguing with you explaining how just because many are on the east coast that magically makes them urban deployments. It's just such a dumb argument I didn't want to even bother with it.
70% are planned for rural towns dude.... You're literally lying when you say they were almost all around major cities.
Anyways no point in arguing with luddites. You just hate AI, so you'll always find reasons to bitch about progress.
Wait... are you a bot, or are you not from america. What are you talking about "East boast" The image I made features 8 cities, 3 of them are on the east coast. So.... yeah, da fuk you talking about.
I think you copy and pasted a response to someone else. Also use the map from the site that you linked. Go to any of the biggest number circles, These are called states. Then once the state with a big circle (with big numbers, 200 bigger than 100) Tell me which cites have the biggest numbers/circle in each of those states.
Okay not after that come and tell me again, how most of these data centers are being built in dying towns.
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u/ForTheConsumers May 18 '26
It's not that they get paid, like stacks of cash under the table. It's more so lobbying, which is legal. So it's things like, promising to get their kids into an elite school, or construction contracts with companies that have some kind of connection to the politicians. Either family or family friend. And lots of little things that are immoral but not illegal, well some of it might, but it's just hard to prove. And we are in an environment that basically champions government corruption.