r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 29 '26
Artificial Intelligence US residents furious at plan to seize and destroy their homes for AI data centers
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/residents-furious-plan-seize-destroy-125418836.html3.0k
u/MechaNutzilla Jul 29 '26
will somebody think of the homeless language models!?
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u/blow-down Jul 29 '26
I think some of these data centers are also being using for Bitcoin mining. Which is just as disgusting.
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u/OldNternetWizard43 Jul 29 '26
They're the infrastructure needed to fight robot wars
So they're for human trafficking operations
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u/Complete-Reply-9145 Jul 29 '26
The need the compute power for all the ai cameras like flock and axon
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u/DesireeThymes Jul 29 '26
The parallels between the AI companies and Israel is uncanny.
Both looking to forcibly remove people from their homes to build their structures
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u/PassiveMenis88M Jul 29 '26
Look at who's funding and running these companies.
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u/SamTheLab_213 Jul 29 '26
Right, you need to know all about the tech bro sociopaths who are running these companies. After you hear about what Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Elon, Fuckerberg and the rest of them have planned, you will be afraid. Very afraid. These people think democracy is a problem and should be stopped immediately. To do this, they need AI to replace workers and make everyone unemployed. Unemployed people go homeless and once people are homeless, they will be in survival mode and forget about high aspirations like democracy.
It's all a strategy to quell the angry masses who might have a revolution once Trump starts doing hardcore shit. They only need to lay off middle class workers to collapse our society. If the middle class go broke, it's curtains for the entire service economy and manufacturing. It's not the poor who buy things and go out to eat and pay for Starbucks- only the middle class have that sort of disposable income.
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 Jul 30 '26
Here's an interesting little tidbit for their mission. The hamburger in the top right is faint, but it's there to click on the menu. Lot's of jarring and horrific information on their squad goals.
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u/SoupOfThe90z Jul 30 '26
You think when we start to fight back, it’ll be too late?
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness7207 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
Israel is also probably the greatest state sponsor of spycraft at this point technology wise.
Plus, they had Epstein.
Edit: to appease the grammar Nazis
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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 Jul 29 '26
And I say it is past time we common folk who care should be doing whatever we can to push back against the likes of the Epstein class, (foreign and domestic, private and institutional,) as well as its death cult of sycophants who seek to enforce their manipulations and control over us. They all should be abandoned to rot, while we go for something better that actually looks out for people.
However, if there's any hope in ever achieving such, we need real supportive community-based foundations for alternatives that provide relative safety, which many common folk can fall back on, to commit to any effective action, be they short or long term.
Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in getting it started ASAP.
If you don’t live in the US, yet you know others who are and want to do something, please share the information. My fellow country folk leave the closest to the main root of this global cancer, so we're going to need as many on board and informed as possible, if we commoners hope to achieve anything in the US
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u/Future-Raisin3781 Jul 29 '26
I was just wondering about this yesterday. It seems like such an obvious opportunity for grift, but I don't know how feasible it is, or to what extent it's happening.
But I assume the worst.
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u/BlatantConservative Jul 29 '26
You'd probably be able to detect it on the "sudden Bitcoin inflation" side of things. But Bitcoin is hard coded capped at 21 million coins. I think mathematically it would make more sense for them to be mining other crypto.
There has been a general crypto inflation phenomenon since early 2025 I think
I dunno I need an economist
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u/not_a_moogle Jul 29 '26
A lot of other crypto doesnt use miners anymore they, they moved to proof of stake. Thats why etherium has stayed low.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jul 29 '26
There are less than a million left to mine and it will take many times more electricity to mine them than the previous 20 million.
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u/RogerMexicosBalls Jul 29 '26
And mass surveillance and tracking anyone and everyone to keep any potential "threats" in sight at all times.
👮♂️ Watch your mouth, citizen, someone might cut off your tongue 👮♂️
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u/SamTheLab_213 Jul 29 '26
A number of Youtubers have videos about outsmarting Flock cameras. I commend these people for their creativity in problem solving. Just know the law in your area, because in Florida some of what's suggested is illegal:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqeKxCJfGg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-u5mFqjeso
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MQLlMbS-Y
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNrmeuU3csg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEllWdK4l_A
And if all else fails there is this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_K8elnlBLw26
u/Wonderful-Medium7777 Jul 29 '26
They’re surveillance centres…collating, monitoring , tracking and processing everyone’s personal data online and offline (IRL) to profile us ready for the social credit score system ( like China) and CBDC’s. There will be no privacy, no autonomy and we’ll be denied or approved access to “live” by an automated system.
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u/jarail Jul 29 '26
Naw, it's more that bitcoin mining isn't really worth it so they're converting those to AI data centers. So it's mixed but that's more because AI is displacing bitcoin miners.
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u/Cut_Lanky Jul 29 '26
I read that the Philadelphia police are monitoring social media for comments just like this, and for memes that are critical of AI/ data centers generally, calling it "terrorism monitoring" 🙄
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u/iontucky Jul 29 '26
I wouldn't be surprised, but more likely it's to store the videos from Flock cameras and use AI to analyze it. There's a reason why they are being built in every part of the country even in places where it would seem like a bad location.
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u/CasimirGabriev Jul 29 '26
You are right but these folks arent honest. They dont wanna glorify shit, they wanna get richer than God
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u/DesireeThymes Jul 29 '26
It's more simple than that.
This is a very rational decision... for the rich.
The number one driver behind AI is reducing labor costs
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u/Rocktopod Jul 29 '26
I would guess that's actually number 2 after the potential for analyzing surveillance data.
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u/jimothee Jul 29 '26
I agree with you. Thought the kicker is that anything that'll also benefit corporations is basically getting greenlit by this admin regardless of whether it's going to be disastrous or not. I'd also add that surveillance also benefits corporations by way of consumer marketing profiles.
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u/CapoExplains Jul 29 '26
Yeah well, welcome to fascist oligarchy. No reasonable person is in support of this, to which the government says "Fuck you, we are you rulers and you have no say."
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u/Libertechian Jul 29 '26
My father lost a welding shop to eminate domain in the 90s because a Target store would "bring in more tax revenue." Abuse of a system meant for roads and schools isn't anything new, just a new high spender coming to town
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u/TheRatingsAgency Jul 29 '26
Yea except we’re giving them tax deferments for decades.
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u/Cecil_McCrackshell Jul 29 '26
Even in HCOL California, commercial real estate entities can afford to keep giant shopping centers and industrial parks vacant for decades using tax loopholes that make more sense to them financially because God-forbid they'd be forced to offer lower, affordable rent to a new tenant and supposedly lower the value of their dormant assets.
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u/ConfessSomeMeow Jul 29 '26
They're paying 1% of the 1970s value of the land in perpetuity because a shell corporation owner never has to sell - it never has to move for a new job, never sends its children to college, never retires, and never dies.
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u/HewSpam Jul 30 '26
They don’t really feel they need to keep pretending you live in a democracy at this point
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u/jumpy_monkey Jul 29 '26
Years ago when they were planning on widening the I-5 freeway just south of Los Angeles they used eminent domain to buy an adjacent tract of about 200 homes.
For reasons though it took about twenty years to complete the project and for the first ten or so it was a literal ghost town everyone could admire as they drove by before the houses were razed.
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u/Quirky-Marsupial-420 Jul 29 '26
I thought eminent domain could only be used for things like roads, power grid, etc.
Had no idea it could be used to take your private property and turn it into someone else's private property.
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u/Questhi Jul 29 '26
See Kelo v New London Conn…supreme court said government can take private property from one person and give it to a richer owner who will build a higher value asset cause the higher tax revenue will benefit the community.
Made sense since property values were always rising , but right after that decision the housing market collapsed in 2008. The town of New London Conn. ended up losing $70 million on the deal cause Pfizer who wanted the land pulled out. Justice Stevens said it was the one decision he regretted.
Now towns essentially can engage in land speculation. You’re always assuming the property values will rise or the new business who you give the land too will be successful. It’s gambling with tax dollars.
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u/Quirky-Marsupial-420 Jul 29 '26
That’s incredibly fucked.
Like it’s still fucked if it’s for a road or power grid, but at least I kinda get it.
Mega fucked if they take your private property to give it to someone else because it’ll make the locality more tax dollars.
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u/escalicha Jul 29 '26
Calling this ‘AI infrastructure’ makes it sound way more abstract than it is. If 80% of that line is for data centers, the companies benefiting from it should be paying enough that homeowners can actually choose to move—not hiding behind eminent domain.
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u/24-Hour-Hate Jul 29 '26
If it is for data centres, they shouldn’t be allowed to appeal to eminent domain at all. Eminent domain should be reserved for necessary public infrastructure (and as a last resort), not for private companies in any respect. These data centres should be forced to purchase property. And if people won’t sell or want more money, well, tough.
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u/BigXthaPugg Jul 29 '26
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Supreme Court already ruled in Kelo v. City of New London in 2005, that eminent domain can be used for private corporations if it “creates jobs, increases tax revenue, or improves economically distressed areas”. Not that I think data centers will do any of that, and I also vehemently disagree with that ruling. But that’s where things stand currently
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u/24-Hour-Hate Jul 29 '26
That's insane.
Data centres do none of that.
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u/JuDGe3690 Jul 29 '26
Oh, it gets better: In Kelo, the property in question was going to be part of a large Pfizer campus, but ended up never being built, so the little old lady lost her house of sentimental value (even if paid "market price" for it) and none of the economic benefits materialized.
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u/Witty_Ad_898 Jul 29 '26
Before he was the darling of the alt-right and libertarians, Donald Trump was known for these abuses of eminent domain for his failed projects.
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u/Witty_Ad_898 Jul 29 '26
That was one of Donald Trump’s real estate strategies. He would get local governments to use eminent domain for his resorts and casinos, many of which failed or never even finished construction.
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u/JSC843 Jul 29 '26
Tbf they do some of that, like creating a whopping 5 long-term jobs and a paying a fraction of what residents do for property/energy taxes. BS, yes, but it is what could allow them to follow that precedent.
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u/-rwsr-xr-x Jul 29 '26
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Supreme Court already ruled in Kelo v. City of New London in 2005, that eminent domain can be used for private corporations if it “creates jobs, increases tax revenue, or improves economically distressed areas”.
Fun fact: 21 years later after that ruling, that same property sits empty, abandoned, without a single bit of the original home structure on it at all. They tore her house down on principle, and did nothing with the property. Nothing.
They fought for the right to force eminent domain to be the default, not because they wanted that specific property.
Look up 8 East Street, New London on Google Maps and go to Street View.
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u/BigXthaPugg Jul 29 '26
Yep. I actually lived in the Groton and New London when I was in the navy. It’s just a big ass field over there
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u/cubitoaequet Jul 29 '26
Dred Scott tier decision.
The final cost to the city and state for the purchase and bulldozing of the formerly privately held property was $78 million.[43] The promised 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues had not materialized, and nearly 2 decades passed before serious development on the site began.
Also a crazy rare instance of Thomas/Scalia being on the right side of things.
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u/Aldiirk Jul 29 '26
Also a crazy rare instance of Thomas/Scalia being on the right side of things.
Back when conservatives used to be the party of individual rights and small (-ish) government.
That decision was pretty much the perfect case of the conservatives (Scalia, O'Conner, Thomas, & Rehnquist) being correct, while the liberal majority (Stevens, Kennedy, Ginsberg, Souter, & Breyer) were horribly wrong. Thomas even wrote:
"Allowing the government to take property solely for public purposes is bad enough, but extending the concept of public purpose to encompass any economically beneficial goal guarantees that these losses will fall disproportionately on poor communities. Those communities are not only systematically less likely to put their lands to the highest and best social use, but are also the least politically powerful."
Afterwards, it created an interesting coalition of progressives and conservatives seeking to overturn the decision, although that coalition collapsed in 2015 when a certain orange clown led the conservatives into fascism.
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u/danocogreen Jul 29 '26
So the tax breaks for these centers negates the increased tax revenue part at a minimum. The creates is short term on the construction and has low to minimal employment on the creates jobs. An agreement could be made that these eminent domain would actually make the area more distressed since these are designed to be built in the middle of no where. So all 3 points would fail on that reasoning…
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u/Scoth42 Jul 29 '26
They choose eminent domain because there will always be those one or two people who refuse to move for any amount. Maybe they're elderly and want to finish out their days there. Maybe they or their ancestors built the house and it matters more than money. Maybe there's not really anywhere else nearby that would be viable even if they were overpaid for their house because of taxes or their commute or something. Maybe they have residency limitations because of child custody agreements or other things. Plus moving is just a pain in the ass and people like their homes.
So companies just go straight to emminent domain to head that off. And if they can save money by low balling people all the better for them.
Personally I feel like ED should be legally restricted to provably necessary public works projects and improvements that are intended for improvement and don't enrich or benefit private companies directly. There might be some exceptions for things like airport expansions that I get can be necessary but they should be the exception and subject to lots of planning. Like I remember the St. Louis airport expansion that was literal decades of work and they still screwed it up, leaving vast swaths of empty land for years.
Definitely should not be allowed just because a company wants to build something that will enrich them and politicians/locales/etc get a big cut of the action. Doubly so when they're kicking out the very people who might arguably benefit from the locale having increased revenue, the project has measurable and very real environmental impacts to the local area, and it'll make nearby people's life worse.
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u/GingerBeard_andWeird Jul 29 '26
Those one or two people have every fucking right to stay there and don’t need any kind of valid justification and these privately owned data centers should fuck all the way off into the god damn sun
There is no fucking conceivable reason that ANY private enterprise should be allowed to leverage eminent domain. At all. Ever. They are private commercial entities. They can fuck right off and go buy land elsewhere from someone that wants to sell.
I don’t get to punch someone in the face and rob them because I really really really want their shit and I totally promise to do better things with their valuable then they were gonna do with it. No one gets to decide that.
If this is how it’s gonna be wielded then it should be fucking abolished entirely.
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u/Scoth42 Jul 29 '26
Yep, I agree. And it's not even a new problem. I remember a good 30 years ago now my church had a bit of land adjacent to the parking lot that we mostly used as a baseball field. It was just barely big enough for that really, and was closer to a dirt field with a backstop and some bases arranged.
The property butted up to the local high school and they wanted to buy the land for the ballfield to expand their practice space. A couple years of negotiations didn't really go anywhere because they kept lowballing us and refused to even consider alternatives.
Eventually we got the letter that they were taking it by eminent domain and still only offering us a fraction of what it was worth. After some more court negotiations they increased the offer a bit and included a promise that we could still access and use it when not in use by the school. It wasn't but a few months later that a fence went up around it.
At least it was a school and could be argued it was for the public good but the land was worth way more than they got for it, which is still a problem with ED.
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u/emulable Jul 29 '26
the companies benefiting from it should be paying enough that homeowners can actually choose to move
That's not enough. People should just be able to choose not to move. Maybe some things shouldn't be for sale to data centers. Maybe there are some things that are more important than a big bank account full of imaginary money they're always inflating that takes people's real property.
And it doesn't address the pollution problem, or the water table problem, or any other problems besides getting rid of locals. Most of whom don't own their homes. It's a B2B transaction and the tenants are forced out of their homes, ultimately at gunpoint if sheriffs get involved.
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u/Turkino Jul 29 '26
Remember a lot of this bs is due to local politicians. That's your city government, your county zoning board etc.
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u/GormHub Jul 29 '26
Yup, our county just passed a 2 year ban on data centers. Our county executive is trying to get around that with rezoning, abusing her power to still get paid for selling us out. This is someone who took over for the corrupt county executive who became our fucking senator on the basis of what she looked like.
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u/heftybagman Jul 29 '26
Eminent domain for private for profit companies is legal on the us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
They can take your house from you and do nothing at all with it and you can’t say shit about it. All the private company has to do is convince the state that they intend to provide jobs. Whether or not they ever succeed in providing those jobs doesn’t matter at all.
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u/mechapoitier Jul 29 '26
Like we didn’t have enough awful stuff to worry about. Eminent domain used to be for relatively unavoidable things with the most benefit, like roads. I don’t think eminent domain for data centers that can be more than 2 miles long was on anybody’s bingo card for this dystopia.
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u/harp011 Jul 29 '26
To be fair, eminent domain has a really really long history of being used in exactly this way, and in even more intentionally malicious ways to disrupt black communities in the US. None of this is new, it’s just new towhite folks
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u/marketrent Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Excerpts from article by Joe Wilkins, citing Fortune:
As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers, some civic leaders are no longer asking.
According to new reporting by Fortune, the state of Georgia's for-profit utility company, Georgia Power, is looking to demolish and pave over some 30 homes — and 330 parcels of land — that currently block the route of a 1,000 mile transmission line.
When it goes live, the line will distribute nearly 10,000 megawatts of energy from a newly constructed power plant, "approximately 80 percent of which is expected to power data centers," according to a fact sheet provided by the Georgia Public Service Commission (the rest will presumably be split between local businesses, homes, and other customers.)
Backed by the state, Georgia Power is now working on paying landowners to move, or else face the seizure of their property by eminent domain.
As one can imagine, the predominantly rural homeowners affected aren't exactly thrilled at the idea of clearing out to make space for more infrastructure to power AI.
"We don't have a choice in this. They are going to be expanding power lines," the woman, Ansley Brown, said in one video posted on Instagram. "Why? For the data centers. All of this is for the data centers."
Speaking to Fortune, a spokesperson for Georgia congressman and former White House Political Director under Donald Trump Brian Jack — whose district encompasses many of the properties in Georgia Power's crosshairs — said the lawmaker's office has "received multiple requests for help and support from constituents."
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u/WabbitCZEN Jul 29 '26
Speaking to Fortune, a spokesperson for Georgia congressman and former White House Political Director under Donald Trump Brian Jack — whose district encompasses many of the properties in Georgia Power's crosshairs — said the lawmaker's office has "received multiple requests for help and support from constituents."
All of which have been ignored, I'm sure.
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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 Jul 29 '26
Cities aren't building data centers, it's private companies building data centers and cities can either choose to try to block them or not.
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u/Frequent_Ad_9901 Jul 29 '26
The problem is hardly anyone votes in local elections. Maybe they vote based on a name they've heard or a letter next to said name.
So its really easy for corporations to buy local politicians.
The solution is obvious but difficult. Vote up and down the ballot. And support local news so that you can be informed. That's not a small task though.
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u/bfodder Jul 29 '26
I don't know about where you live, but it is nearly impossible to find any info on some of these candidates in my town.
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u/Jumoke1331 Jul 29 '26
Billionaires are a cancer upon society, their data centres are merely a symptom.
I'd say long past time to start considering what the equivalent remedy to chemotherapy should be.
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u/Mountain_Cry1605 Jul 29 '26
Time to eat them. Prepare your barbeques and ranch sauce.
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u/GhostsofGojira Jul 29 '26
Sounds like somebody needs a build another death dozer and flatten some of these data centers
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u/microwavepetcarrier Jul 29 '26
Maybe this time it won't be some total dickhead and instead an actual hero.
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u/Organic_Pick3616 Jul 29 '26
The Chinese are installing solar panels everywhere to fund their data centers, but the US has a president who is against renewable energy. AI electricity usage in China costs a fraction of what it does in the US.
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u/SeeingEyeDug Jul 29 '26
Why would Biden make us move out of our homes, they keep asking themselves.
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u/Uncle-Cake Jul 29 '26
On a related note, I just learned a park in my area, which has a huge lake, used to be the location of an entire village, with homes and businesses, as recently as the 1960's. The state seized the land and forced the entire village out, and then flooded it. All because some state rep wanted a lake and he wanted it THERE.
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u/Jeez-essFC Jul 29 '26
I didn't think eminent domain could be used for private builds?
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u/MASSochists Jul 29 '26
Sure can SCOTUS allowed it in CT to make a shopping center. That quickly closed down after it was construction, after forcing family out of their childhood homes.
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u/-rwsr-xr-x Jul 29 '26
That quickly closed down after it was construction, after forcing family out of their childhood homes.
If you're talking about Kelo, that property still remains empty and abandoned 21 years after the ruling. Zoom in and go to Street View and pan around. There's nothing there but an empty lot. It's been that way for a long, long time.
They built nothing.
They tore her house down on principle, and left it empty and abandoned for over two decades.
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u/Puglady25 Jul 29 '26
Good lord, somebody should take a picture and put it on a SCOTUS protest sign. This is what they fight for.
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u/MASSochists Jul 29 '26
Yeah my fault I forgot they never even finished the construction. I just remember being outraged by it.
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u/esprit_de_croissants Jul 29 '26
SCOTUS Case Kelo v New London. 2005.
It was a horrible decision that anybody who was paying attention had to know would end up here.
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u/DiskSalt4643 Jul 29 '26
Courts have allowed states and municipalities incredible leeway to decide what is for the public good.
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u/witchspoon Jul 29 '26
Should NOT be able to use eminent domain for something that isn’t a public service. Data centers are NOT public, nor are they an actual service.
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u/Embarrassed_Radio596 Jul 29 '26
Arm up, say no, and enforce it.
This is your home, they have no right, even if the law says they do.
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u/mph1204 Jul 29 '26
“violence isn’t the answer” is the biggest scam in the history of humanity. the people telling you that lie are the ones who commit the most violence in order to oppress those who would rather avoid it.
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u/Embarrassed_Radio596 Jul 29 '26
Violence isn't the PREFERRED answer.
But if backed into the corner, protect yourself and others.
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u/Hawgdestroyerxtreme Jul 29 '26
They intentionally target small, underprivileged areas for this reason. POC neighborhoods that have owned their homes for 100 years. Elderly people.
They aren't going to take a subdivision of enraged 30-40 year old owners, because they know the pushback would be brutal.
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u/ralstan Jul 29 '26
I was hired on a project. They replaced me (oh thank Jesus) and put another more zealous person in charge of it. He eminent domain'd the property much to the anger of the populus. BUT then oil prices crashed out a margin called was made and they could not do the project. So for 5 years the property they yeeted them from lay'd fallow. One time I was glad I got fired. My prediction is a lot of this will occur as borrowing for AI comes due.
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u/gamerqc Jul 29 '26
It's coming to Canada too. Let's sacrifice nature for AI, I don't see how that won't bite us back in a couple of years! Truly geniuses at the top. But who cares, right? You're just an enemy of the state if you complain too much.
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u/Dzugavili Jul 29 '26
You can't have a debt-bearing data center sitting cold, so your business model demands you lower access costs. So, is there actually a shortage of AI compute due to legitimate demand, or is this part of a bid to juice supply and keep costs low?
Given the short half-life on computing hardware -- 10 years from now, much of this state-of-the-art hardware will be donated to a local highschool as it is no longer economically viable to run -- they really need to engrain AI fast.
We're in an experimental/early adoption phase with AI, many businesses are experimenting with AI workflows, and in many applications, they aren't particularly cost effective: the machine still requires oversight and the actual business activity still needs people. Much of this is covered by the venture capital subsidies that are typical of early adoption phase. It's not a bad strategy, but it has weaknesses, in that once you need to cover costs, many customers will pull back or find alternative vendors. Demand curves tend to be pretty elastic, unless the commodity is a necessity.
The only thing they have going for them right now is that they bought so much silicon, it moved the market and most of these AI companies are sitting on a mountain of hard assets. Except, tech depreciates nearly as fast as milk. The crash is going to be incredible.
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u/Character_Score7849 Jul 29 '26
I've been assuming with this huge ai push that even those pushing it don't believe it will be successful, lasting or necessary, they just know they'll personally make money at the start and then leave before it crashes.
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u/karl4319 Jul 29 '26
Has anyone actually addressed the whole "these data centers we are spending hundreds of billions on are built with infrastructure and tech that will be out of date and worthless in 2 years" thing yet?
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u/Murky-Golf-239 Jul 29 '26
There’s zero thinking of the future with our government, quick buck made now!
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u/Difficult-Life-8243 Jul 29 '26
I like how when people wanted to use eminent domain to build high speed rail or affordable housing the politicians said no. Now it’s to build massive data centers and suddenly they’re making moves to build projects.
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u/KaiserSaladSpinner Jul 29 '26
Waiting for the first IPOs for this insane bubble to implode. History students 100 years from now will be reading about this just like we read about the Dutch Tulip craze.
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u/Hasselback_Brotatoes Jul 29 '26
eminent domain was ALWAYS an excuse and flimsy cover up of being a tyrant
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u/Mysterious_Treat293 Jul 29 '26
If this is the cost of AI then AI has no future. Let it crash and burn.
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u/beyondmymemory Jul 29 '26
What a bizarre headline — focusing on the reaction to a problem.
It’s more like — “US Government Allows Corporations to Steal Your Homes To Build Mass Surveillance Warehouses And There’s Nothing You Can Do”
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u/lostroadrunner22 Jul 29 '26
Soon each new home will be required to have a flock camera and data center
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u/listentomenow Jul 29 '26
I keep wondering how this is happening all over the country and all I can think of is how the republican supreme court allowed our local and state officials to be bribed as long as you call it a "gift" after. It's as easy as a multi billion dollar company saying, "Hey, Mr. Mayor, we're a multi billion dollar company and we think it's your town's best interests to let us build our centers here. Wink wink Mr. Mayor says OK. Wink wink Company builds data centers, and then hands Mr. Mayor a bag of cash as a "thank you". And for some reason republicans were like, this should be legal.
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u/StanknBeans Jul 29 '26
For a country so against socialism, America sure goes all in on it for corpos.
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u/IShouldBWorkin Jul 29 '26
For a country so against socialism, America sure goes all in on it for corpos.
That's... the result of being so against socialism.
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u/TheorySudden5996 Jul 29 '26
I want to mention that with interest rates much higher in 2026 than 10 years ago, it could be more than 2x the mortgage to replace the home.
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u/PotterOneHalf Jul 29 '26
Hypothetically, what could one do to their own property to make it impossible for it to be built on?
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u/Mar1Fox Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Reddit has a ToS so you probably won’t get a good answer. But most things that make it so they can’t or won’t build on the land would also prevent you or anyone else from living there. I suppose one could investigate if there are any endangered species native in the area and then try and find a way to relocate some of them to live on the property. Most famous example was a bloke who built a bat house to spite the HOA who couldn’t do anything about it due to the protected status of said bats occupying the bat house.
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u/SuperTaster3 Jul 29 '26
Wondering how long it'll be until someone snaps and leads a mob to ransack and loot a data center construction site.
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u/Zylpherenuis Jul 29 '26
The Ultra Wealthy can't be destroyed fast enough it seems.
Step up people. We got a job to do.
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u/el_lobo1314 Jul 29 '26
When the people start taking matters into their own hands thank yourselves for inspiring them.
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u/explodingboy Jul 30 '26
Keep voting for a party that takes away your rights, focus only on the right of the rich to make more fake wealth.
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u/imaginary_num6er Jul 29 '26
For Brown, the fight appears to be over. As Fortune reports, Georgia Power says they've "concluded" negotiations with the family, though the exact deal has not been disclosed, possibly due to a non-disclosure agreement. It also wasn't clear to what extent the congressman intervened, though Georgia Power told the publication they appreciate "his advocacy on behalf of his constituent."
Their "constituent' the owner of the data center.
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u/Valentine_343 Jul 29 '26
All going according to project 2025, if only Americans were warned about project 2025 before the election
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u/MassiveBoner911_3 Jul 29 '26
and if you protest too hard to protect your home the police will show up and start doing beatdowns.
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u/Nico777 Jul 29 '26
The country is going back to where it started: murdering natives to steal their land.
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u/biblioprof Jul 29 '26
Shame on my state. Our governor thinks of us as consumers. They also have out massive tax breaks.
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u/Zyrinj Jul 29 '26
Shows the priorities and values of the leadership involved in these decisions when its done for AI Datacenters but nothing can be done for public works projects that are held up by wealthier NIMBYs.
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u/Hawk13424 Jul 29 '26
Under no circumstance should a private company be enabled via eminent domain. Ever.
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u/FelopianTubinator Jul 30 '26
People need to start using all those guns they swear they would use if the government decided to take away their right to bear arms.
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u/wytedevil Jul 30 '26
i dont understadn there is so much empty space in the united states why? they can just build out there
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u/Round-Medicine2507 Jul 29 '26
This is what republicans do what did people expect???
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u/Lastmidnight01 Jul 29 '26
Remember who the garbage is thats enabling this. And take the trash out this midterms and the 2028 election.
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u/VerdantPathfinder Jul 29 '26
That's what you get when you vote in authoritarians. They tend to do authoritarian things. Republicans don't want to represent, they want to rule.
Georgia is getting what it voted for. If they want a different outcome, they should vote differently.
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u/Necessary-Fly-2795 Jul 29 '26
This is such a terrible take and narrative. Georgia voters voted 50.7% republican and 48.5% Democrat. We are all at the whim of a few thousand people.
And anyone who peddles this opinion is just disgusting. Maybe these people have to work long hours or cant get to the polls or voted against it. Also, local governments in Georgia, New Jersey, etc are approving these things and are often times a democrat board, so Idk what you're even saying
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u/BloodSimpleSyrup Jul 29 '26
Yeah, these are the same people that think Texas is 99.9% MAGA even though all the major cities are blue.
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u/GoatzWasTaken Jul 29 '26
Yeah but what does that matter when the state legislature is majority red.
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u/Salt_Medicine2459 Jul 29 '26
The major cities in my state are blue. The legislature, supreme court, and governor are all Republicans and have been for over 20 years with one brief interlude with a one term Democratic governor.
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u/cothomps Jul 29 '26
It is kind of amazing how much political and social capital we’ll spend on AI.
Replacing / improving the power grid for more efficient & cleaner energy: nah.
Spending $$$ on a desire to displace the American workforce: ALL IN.