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11. Data centers are trying to move into our rural area and their biggest investors are our local power company

Tue Jun 30, 2026, 07:21 PM

13 hrs ago

Sounds like a huge conflict of interest to me.

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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity' [View all] highplainsdem 16 hrs ago OP

I do not understand why delisen 16 hrs ago #3

"Also, we need everyone to stop bathing and drinking so much water." tanyev 16 hrs ago #5

Dude- mwmisses4289 15 hrs ago #6

Shut down the effing data centers!' C Moon 15 hrs ago #7

Glen Younkin was our last governor... renordgren 15 hrs ago #8

Everyone must serve the needs of the tech billionaires dalton99a 15 hrs ago #9

Same thing we say about SpaceX RussBLib 13 hrs ago #12

So fitting that Richmond was the former capitol of the Confederacy. SunSeeker 7 hrs ago #17

This message was self-deleted by its author SunSeeker 7 hrs ago #18

404 media is paywalled out the wazoo. Has anyone actually read this? usonian 10 hrs ago #15

This was always going to happen. Aussie105 9 hrs ago #16

The problem is the price structure Old Crank 3 hrs ago #19

Ya know... purr-rat beauty 1 hr ago #20