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“In other news, 50,000 people wearing ski masks manually disassemble a data center.”
In a better world, I’d be reading that headline.
Also "50,000 Lake Tahoans visit the houses of utilities CEOs in the night and thoroughly encourage them to review their policy shifts"
I wouldn't mind "community uses eminent domain to socialize a power utility." Then the data center can buy the power, at market rates, after the community's power needs are met.
This is the play. They are giving up $3.3B (?) in incentives to the get the data center, which will strain the power grid and cost citizens. Why not (bribery) invest that in the power grid directly so it can support both, and monetize on it. Almost nowhere has the power needed for these data centers, so advertising reliable power would be a big selling point. And you can charge them enough to recoup the investment over time, and the citizens they are supposed to represent would actually benefit.
Its going to be protected by the military. They are going to turn the residents into terrorists just because they want to survive.