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This is potentially good news for everyone who wants to do anything less dirty than a datacenter (logistics, cold chain, light manufacturing/assembly, etc) because they'll probably be able to get the precedent extended to them in the next decade or so. The people and communities that make money off that sort of stuff will probably do well. Most of that sort of industry is in poorer sections of states where the municipalities are constantly being hamstrung by their own state because the municipalities want to permit it but state rules make that hard. So there is potential for some good to come out of it.

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> Most of that sort of industry is in poorer sections of states where the municipalities are constantly being hamstrung by their own state

Oh yes, the well-known path to riches by being a toxic dumping ground.

To be fair he didn't say who was getting rich, presumably the people making the deals, not the chumps left with the cleanup and the bill.

I mean, yes? Are you aware of the history of the industrial revolution?

There are plenty of major industrial powers with very clean industries who used to have very dirty industries in previous decades or centuries. I can't think of any nation at all that developed while maintaining a firm commitment to clean industry trough the process of industrialization (though, there are a few places that never industrialized and developed a service economy directly, especially tax havens and financial hubs).

These exemptions are not granted based on logic or precedent. "Less dirty" has nothing to do with it. They're entirely based on open bribery. This will be granted to any industry that bribes the administration enough. What's the good news again?

oh! "This will benefit the 2%, while the 1% burns the earth to the ground"

This is like Republicans claiming that they're doing everything for small businesses, when the reality is they're doing things for contract workers who more often are just being forced into contracts that wouldn't exist without the lax regulatory reality and are abused thereof.

"This will benefit the little guy (assuming they survive their cancer diagnosis)"

I just heard this last night: buried in the "support for small business" was the repeal (or effectively neuteringO of the Corporate Transparency Act's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/09/10/treasury-launder-mon...

That program had a simple ask of every corporation doing business in America: who really owns it? No more hiding of ill gotten gains and laundering through US real estate, etc (hint: anybody come to mind who might do a lot of that)?.

They killed it. To "protect small businesses".

The Trump Regime is pure corruption.

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

And that reporting was a trivial ask for a small business and still not a burden for large business.

Sales Tax handling is more of a burden on the business than this reporting was.

I have zero doubt that it was done intentionally to help their "friends" launder money.

It was a stupid regulation to begin with. Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means.

All it did was make your 3 member condo association have to pay a lawyer $500/yr in compliance fees for utterly no benefit to anyone other than the compliance folks collecting their rent. Or take on personal criminal liability to file it yourself. Better not forget one random year or it’s a felony!

Just like most of the rest of the AML/KYC creep after 9/11 it did absolutely nothing to go after anybody they say it did - it just made things harder on normal everyday people.

> Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means.

What do you have in mind?

Subpoenas and search-warrants exist but are not trivial.

I mean, like this?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/pfas-forever-chem...

"Great" news indeed.

Why would there be precedent.

Trump is running a spoils system. You don't obtain favor through reasoned argument. You obtain favor by making him like you personally.

he doesn’t have to like you at all, you just have to bring a large white envelope or a thumb drive to mar-a-largo and you good

All that stuff is more dirty to the local community than your average datacenter.

The vast majority of these these no one knows even exist until told. They are basically warehouses without loading docks not much traffic goes into or out of.

Sure some horrible projects exist and are repeated over and over on social media, but they are the exception.

Most folks working across the street from one of these facilities had no idea until they were told to care.

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