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‘Who Wants to Live Like This?’ Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 4 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The threat of trucks crashing into schools isn’t the only problem that the data center has brought. Local residents Joseph and Robin Williams told WWNO that they’ve noticed their tap water is frequently rust colored since Meta started building the data center, and they say their electricity frequently goes off for hours on end with no warning.

Wow you'd expect this in a third world country, not a place that should have standards 🙄 And is the richest in the world.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Local politicians are signing off for short term bribes, knowing it will destroy communities but they can just leave once it happens or even before

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, this is exactly what capitalism has done through most of its history. Whether in the imperial core or not. We pretend to think that capitalism was what the white working class Americans enjoyed back in post WW2. It's why "MAGA" exists. It's the belief in the same lie.

Seriously, go look back and look at pre 1950s American capitalism. It's literally just company towns and chemical dumping everywhere. It's exactly like this and always has been. We just focus on a specific time in post WW2 that only existed, as "good", in reality for a minority of the population.

Capitalism doesn't share it's surplus with the working class of its own nation unless it feels threatened enough to offer some concessions. Something it definitely felt in a post WW2 in which FDR (really only because of militant labor movements) and the USSR had influenced.