Post #1712248

2026-04-26 23:53 UTC

Absolutely fucking nobody wants these data centers in their backyard... https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/04/26/archbald-pennsylvania-data-centers/ "Developers plan to build six of the sprawling campuses in Archbald to power the demand for artificial intelligence, eventually covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Those campuses would include 51 data warehouses — each about the size of a Walmart Supercenter — including seven buildings encompassing more than a million square feet near Bachak’s home."

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@AnarchoDoggo@kolektiva.social 2026-04-27 00:08

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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