There’s a saying : “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”
Big tech are using every trick in their book to circumvent regulations and to continue building data centers despite local community disapproval over noise, pollution and a myriad of other problems…
using every trick in their book to circumvent regulations and to continue building
when the US was building highways through black communities
The US building highways through black communities is a big part of why we have committees that can hold up rail development. And do you really want a government that uses “every trick in the book” to build railroads? No! You want a government that follows its own rules both in letter and in spirit, and one that reigns in the excesses of the market economy when necessary, and one that simply writes better laws.
They’re not small, but they’re one plot of land, not a line spending potentially hundreds of miles and tens of thousands of individual real estate parcels that each require purchasing or litigation to acquire. Which needs to be done before most of the actual work can even begin.
There’s a saying : “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”
Big tech are using every trick in their book to circumvent regulations and to continue building data centers despite local community disapproval over noise, pollution and a myriad of other problems…
Of course, since data centers are (according to the DOJ), “a matter of national, economic, and energy security”, doesn’t matter even if they are ran by illegal gas turbines.
And they’re not so small
Also, this consideration for others property… man it would have been nice to have had it when the US was building highways through black communities…
The US building highways through black communities is a big part of why we have committees that can hold up rail development. And do you really want a government that uses “every trick in the book” to build railroads? No! You want a government that follows its own rules both in letter and in spirit, and one that reigns in the excesses of the market economy when necessary, and one that simply writes better laws.
They’re not small, but they’re one plot of land, not a line spending potentially hundreds of miles and tens of thousands of individual real estate parcels that each require purchasing or litigation to acquire. Which needs to be done before most of the actual work can even begin.