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There's a local council in my community that is gunning for an AI data center in my county. People are livid, but I don't think it's going to be enough to stop the construction. It's shady as fuck with hidden shareholders that nobody will reveal.
I'm open to any and all suggestions on how to prevent this data center from being built. Peaceful ideas or otherwise.
When they come up with it on their own, and push it relentlessly despite obvious and enormous resistance from the citizens, you know they been paid off handsomely.
they likely paid off the politicians before hand, remember janet mills in maine, she basically allowed one to be built and vetoed any measure to block it.
If you can't come up with ideas in the "otherwise" category, you probably aren't very serious.
If they don't respect the law or the will of the people when they put the god forsaken thing up, why are we beholden to the law and the will of the shareholders when we insist that doing it in spite of us is a Bad Idea?
exactly. either the law applies only to The Poors, or it applies to everyone.
if the law applies to everyone, then it needs to be applied.
if you can't apply the law, maybe apply something else.
Silly take. Almost nothing will stop it long term if they want it, illegal or not. And thinking of ideas that potentially could, that a single person could genuinely pull off, is not simple, no matter how serious you are.