Turns out people aren’t thrilled about paying higher electricity bills so billionaires can build enormous server farms next door. The industry spent years calling every objection irrational fear of progress. Apparently voters have discovered a more effective feedback form: the ballot.
Would be better if they had to pay a ongoing payment to everyone in earshot as a repreation for the noise and the people can vote on its rate. Also they should have to pay residential rates for energy use, no deals. And the utility company must publish the useage and how much the payments were.
Why make it cheap and easy, it should be expansive and hard to do.
Haven’t they just been paying people to move instead?
Remember, it’s not just about land or resource use. It’s also about what all that compute is being used for.
Harwood, North Dakota
But it was a “no” vote, for adding existing review steps. Having seen our ballot initiatives I really wonder if they thought they were voting no to the data center. Perhaps Trump’s DOJ should investigate “voter confusion” here.
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But what about cute guys?
I’m curious if Utah voted in a ban or moratorium on that Elder Box County hyper scale data center.
