Not that it would matter, but would there be good if a county legislature mandated the data center to have a pleasant architectural facade, like Trump's EO "Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again"
Georgian or Colonial instead of steel-and-concrete Modernism
Not sure Microsoft is American so much as an appendage of Economic Zone America whose god is the Dollar and whose scripture is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and whose morality is GDP growth and whose adjudicator is Black Lives Matter. First comes Microsoft, then come the pajeets . . .
I agree and am confused to why others are posting about the dumb rurals need to accept this for their own good. There doesn't seem to be anything in it for them.
Possibly. Covid proved once and for all that Americans are just as degenerate as their overseas cousins and expect money to fall from the sky. A lot of people could not be persuaded to allow anything to change no matter how much good it could do.
And too much of our electrical infrastructure is overdue for replacement, but data centers are easier to accept as a reason than "no, whiny asshole, you really did live through a golden age, now it's over and you have to do something for the future". Fighting entropy takes a lot of effort, and people don't think it's their responsibility.
Too many data center opponents, put to the question, would fight any industry moving into their area.
It is a purely extractive relationship with local towns. Zero semblance of any noble obligations they have, no good will at all. With those manners alone, they should be treated with utmost contempt.
Not that it would matter, but would there be good if a county legislature mandated the data center to have a pleasant architectural facade, like Trump's EO "Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again"
Georgian or Colonial instead of steel-and-concrete Modernism
Not sure Microsoft is American so much as an appendage of Economic Zone America whose god is the Dollar and whose scripture is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and whose morality is GDP growth and whose adjudicator is Black Lives Matter. First comes Microsoft, then come the pajeets . . .
I agree and am confused to why others are posting about the dumb rurals need to accept this for their own good. There doesn't seem to be anything in it for them.
Its literally all downside. Tech companies could make them more appealing but choose not to.
Possibly. Covid proved once and for all that Americans are just as degenerate as their overseas cousins and expect money to fall from the sky. A lot of people could not be persuaded to allow anything to change no matter how much good it could do.
And too much of our electrical infrastructure is overdue for replacement, but data centers are easier to accept as a reason than "no, whiny asshole, you really did live through a golden age, now it's over and you have to do something for the future". Fighting entropy takes a lot of effort, and people don't think it's their responsibility.
Too many data center opponents, put to the question, would fight any industry moving into their area.
It is a purely extractive relationship with local towns. Zero semblance of any noble obligations they have, no good will at all. With those manners alone, they should be treated with utmost contempt.