What a fascinating neighborhood in that thumbnail.
EDIT: I don't think that's Festus. At least looking at satellite photos it doesn't really fit in anywhere.
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Toms hardware Getty image slop at its finest.
Holy slop, Batman!
Like, wow is it bad. The bizarre markings on the road were bad enough, but I can't decide which is worse: the poles with no power lines, or the conflicting angles in the building shadows?
Yea, and I think some spelling mistakes in the article. Journalist don't have the support they used to. I wonder if the writer had to source the image as well.
It's the only signal OP has to tell something isn't AI generated. They can sleep soundly for another night having represented a fellow human bean.
"A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project's approval."
because ousting half the local goverment about it isn't a clear enough expression of the people's will
Outsing everyone who supported it, hid it from the public hearings, had private meetings with the developer, and likely took some bullshit incentives...
That's just beginning to be enough..
Indeed, heads should roll on the gutter
Fucking go get em. Yeet those motherfuckers.
Inb4 some dipshit AI apologist posts
Festus is hardly some small Missouri town. Its a major section of what most consider St. Louis metro.
With a population of around 13K, I'd say it is a small town.
I grew up in the area. I'm familiar with Festus. And again, most people would consider Festus part of the greater St. Louis metro. Its 30 minutes to the center of downtown St. Louis from Festus. So its 13,000 population but it's got the infrastructure of a much larger town. Since a sizeable chunk of the town's population lives in Festus but works in STL.
Wow, congrats on completely missing the point. The point isn't how many people are in the arbitrary town boundaries. It's that the town is basically a close suburb of a major city.
Beverly Hills only has a population of 32k, but let's call that a small town and completely ignore that it's fully surrounded by 12 million people.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Do the other cities around share in the burdens of having the data center there? Are they sharing the consequences to water, electricity, and pollution equally? Tax burdens and the like as well? If not, why should it matter who the neighbors are? If so why are they even separated in the first place?
Actually yes, the towns do indeed share. They get massive amounts more tax revenue from the added business of the surrounding major city.
If this was a rural podunk town with a population of 13k then you could call it a small town, as it wouldn't have the supporting infrastructure around it to sustain what a city like OP posted could.
Not that close really. If you're driving a half an hour just to get to "the city" you ain't part of it.
Best not look at DFW with those limitations...
I am from the area and we all consider getting to Festus to be the point where the St. Louis suburbs begin. If you look at how many nice commercial businesses are right off the interstate 55 there, then you’ll realize you are in a metro area with more than 13k people.