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‘Who Wants to Live Like This?’ Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community
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Place sure is big. So big that I wouldn't be surprised if some stray long range bullets didn't end up coming down on the property every so often by pure chance. There's all these unsafe desert yokels out hunting and shooting all the time. Wouldn't that put a damper on operations. Workers and construction crews having to run for cover as bullets crack over head. Then having to evacuate, shut down and let the police comb the place top to bottom collecting bullet fragments.
Then when everything is back to normal what if it happened again? And again? and again? It's a wonder they could get any work done at all. And It'd be a heck a of a thing to protect against if the shots came from different places every time.
They'd about have to have a Groom lake-size security buffer around every single one of these places. Boy wouldn't that get expensive.
And don't get me started on the damage that incendiary/tracer or heavy steel penetration rounds would do to all those pipes, machinery and sensitive coolant systems.
Unrelated, but everyone should check out some of those lower cost 50 BMG rifles that are out now. Those sure are neat.