Post #1712247

2026-04-27 00:08 UTC

This is a conservative region and these small town residents are coming to city council meetings like they're about to grab their lockboxes and start spiking old growth trees to save them from the chainsaws... [One by one, residents approached the stage and threw the glossy pamphlets about the Wildcat Ridge project into the garbage. “They think we are stupid and think we are pushovers,” said Judy Quinlan, 81, who added Archbald residents were “ready to stand in front of bulldozers” to halt the construction.] The AI companies too terrified to put their names on any of these "development" projects are fucked. People are militantly opposed to this bullshit and OpenAI, Oracle, et al were banking way too hard on just springing up data center monstrosities non-stop. This is going to be a constant living nightmare for these companies

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@AnarchoDoggo@kolektiva.social 2026-04-27 00:11

Completely fucking heartbreaking/ infuriating... [Joseph Pullman, who said his three-bedroom house is about 900 feet from the proposed Wildcat Ridge campus, wonders if he’ll be able to stay in his home if the project moves ahead. The 70-year-old retired mechanic, who is raising his 9-year-old granddaughter, recently paid off the house he has lived in for 38 years. Site plans show it might soon sit near 574 diesel generators designed to be a backup power source for the data centers. “I didn’t work 38 years to sit here and listen to a data center, 24/7, 365 days a year,” said Pullman, who added as his voice broke with emotion that he worries it’s too late to fend off the development.]

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