Hopefully out of a cannon. Does this get the data center approval reversed.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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With the takeover of half the board a lawsuit was filed. The other half of the board and the mayor are still looking at losing their seats while the town fights every single person associated with the deal.
At the core of the lawsuit challenging the rezoning of the data center site and the development agreement with CRG are allegations of various secret meetings and a lack of timely public information meant to stifle opposition.
Seems none of the town knew about what was happening or had a chance to voice their concerns which likely is a free speech problem. Hopefully the case exposes who is responsible for these backroom deals which hurt entire towns.
FOIA requests have already turned up messages between the local government and the state government/datacenter developers about how to hide information, how the Governor can "lend a hand" to pressure some reluctant local reps, and how they were waiting for things to blow over with the local community when a new olive garden opened.
Lawsuit has some bones.
A large data center in South Memphis, Tennessee operated by Elon Musk’s xAI, a division of SpaceX, is powered by natural gas, and has drawn heavy criticism for allegedly increasing nitrogen oxide air pollution. “I can’t breathe at home, it smells like gas outside,” one resident of the area said at a public hearing last year, according to Politico, adding, “How come I can’t breathe at home and y’all get to breathe at home?”
Kill them all.
I don't care if you interpret that as sabotaging data centers, or the guillotine, either works for me.
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
Mario Savio
Might I suggest a nation wide Mario Party?
Luigi already set up the board!
Council members still get to keep their bribes from the data center company.