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erronis

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1. Consequences. Assume the local community thought data centers were a good idea...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2026, 04:25 PM

14 hrs ago

Or were lied to and the "administrators" got nice payments on the side.

Built on top of civil war battle grounds. Is that because the South is so unproud of their history?

"If your workplace has windows". First thing is get rid of Microsoft products. (I suggest open-source linux, personally.)

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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity' [View all] highplainsdem 15 hrs ago OP

Consequences. Assume the local community thought data centers were a good idea... erronis 14 hrs ago #1

Their county officials sound as innane and stupid as ours here in the AZ borderlands Attilatheblond 14 hrs ago #2

I do not understand why delisen 14 hrs ago #3

This unregulated shit needs to be banned yesterday. This is beyond insane. Karasu 14 hrs ago #4

"Also, we need everyone to stop bathing and drinking so much water." tanyev 14 hrs ago #5

Dude- mwmisses4289 14 hrs ago #6

Shut down the effing data centers!' C Moon 13 hrs ago #7

Glen Younkin was our last governor... renordgren 13 hrs ago #8

Everyone must serve the needs of the tech billionaires dalton99a 13 hrs ago #9

These data centers will eventually destroy the communities and make them uninhabitable and sustainable in the next 5 kimbutgar 12 hrs ago #10

Same thing we say about SpaceX RussBLib 11 hrs ago #12

Data centers are trying to move into our rural area and their biggest investors are our local power company ToxMarz 12 hrs ago #11

I am 78 years old, I retired after 40 years in a steel mill. Our plant consumed over $1 million doc03 11 hrs ago #13

Great job, Richmond! Youngkin installed these parasites and now we have to live with them. Martin68 10 hrs ago #14

So fitting that Richmond was the former capitol of the Confederacy. SunSeeker 6 hrs ago #17

This message was self-deleted by its author SunSeeker 6 hrs ago #18

404 media is paywalled out the wazoo. Has anyone actually read this? usonian 8 hrs ago #15

This was always going to happen. Aussie105 8 hrs ago #16

The problem is the price structure Old Crank 2 hrs ago #19