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Make John Stewart, Chief Marketing Officer of Hyperscale Data, live in one of those houses for a month. See how he likes the sound.

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To be fair a large amount of the fault here lies with the city, who permitted a data center to be built in a residential neighborhood.

There are plenty of dirty, noisy, disruptive industrial buildings out there. Smelters, quarries, incinerators, etc.

Fine to build them. Don't build them next to houses, build them next to each other.

What it really comes down to is a political and legal environment that allows or even encourages grift at an industrial scale and has largely erased public accountability by turning everything into a divided political issue (and proletariat politics into a sort of “sports team” identity)

It’s genius in a malevolent way, and absolutely nullifies the democratic process in favor of corporate oligarchy.

If they're any thing like my city, the board members don't live anywhere near the areas they're granting permits for.

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