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They are taking an old rental storage site and turning it into a data center. If low income housing was built there would be anger. If luxury rentals were built there would be anger. Etc.

These are all shitty jobs.

Okay, how about a small factory? Nope, same issues with noise, pollution, water, electricity.

i'm pretty sure there would be anger if a filthy smelter was erected over there to add to the environment joys like lead and arsenic, too. maga might say "bringin' jerbs back to 'murica" but bleh.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

The water use misinformation

yes i've already pointed that out, and yes, the selection between cooling efficiency and energy efficiency doesn't get the attention it should. closed loop systems reduce (bigly) use but that doesn't mean that water consumption is no longer an issue from place to place. the term itself is misleading. you don't set one of these and forget about it until the water is black and gross like fire sprinkler systems.

generally more complicated than "it's a water guzzler" vs "no water demand," anno domini 2026. then there's the question of where and how they flush it when they do. what's in it? is it treated before being released into the environment?

What can we put there to produce jobs? Good jobs of course.

pay people enough to live and strengthen the social safety net so people don't need to work three jobs and work into their 80s. stop housing from being used to generate wall street bucks. address the companies holding onto properties and not even developing them just to control prices! instead of the billionaire space race, put that money back into nasa. spend here, instead of sequestering. there's lots of ideas to go around. countries with less resources can manage a far saner way of life.

seriously this is like "what will the waitresses do if we removed tipping from american culture."

"if you don't let us have this shady factory and dump poison into your air, soil and waterways, there will be no jobs," is deeply flawed imo.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-04-16 14:29:26)

i imagine a number of americans largely indifferent ("oh you're exaggerating") to stuff going up elsewhere in the country would be quite angry about a datacenter, oil pipeline, coal power, or a stinky factory being placed in their town's backyard! but you said we needed the jobs! haha

higher assessments mean higher property taxes and housing costs and utility rates. close enough proximity to a datacenter can even hurt your property value! getting that new sidewalk on a 5 year timeframe instead of 20 (besides the promise possibly not even being the reality) suddenly seems less appealing.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

higher assessments mean higher property taxes and housing costs and utility rates. close enough proximity to a datacenter can even hurt your property value! getting that new sidewalk on a 5 year timeframe instead of 20 (besides the promise possibly not even being the reality) suddenly seems less appealing.

Having a sidewalk in 5 years instead of 20 prevents someone from breaking their leg on a bad sidewalk during year 11. These are genuine quality of life concerns.

Newbie is like: data centers can cause property values to go down. Terrible. They can make property values go up. Terrible.

Pick a lane.

You never answered what a small city can do with a former storage unit lot since factories, Amazon warehouse, and data centers are all off the table. High paying LGBT coffee shops?

you're just mad because you use chatgpt to manage your sidegirls