Residents gathered outside First United Methodist Church in downtown Little Rock Wednesday to protest a private meeting centered on Google’s proposed data cente
I saw some other company did this same thing in Iowa. They hold these public meetings at private facilities so that they can police who is and isnt allowed to attend. In the Iowa case they told all reporters (I believe it was A More Perfect Union that was covering this) that they weren’t allowed in the building, which caused a scene when residents found out, which lead to them abruptly canceling the meeting early and the datacenter people blaming it on reporters being in the vicinity. I believe in this case they also had the city council sign NDAs so that they couldn’t talk about it either, which doesnt seem like something that should be legal (if it even is).
Idk if this is the same event, but there were some tech bros that wanted to put up a crytpo mining facility in Cedar Falls that went through a similar process. I hate AI and the environmental impacts of data centers, but crypto has nothing redeeming, where at least occasionally AI gets it right.
There are a couple going up around Cedar Rapids that seemed to get through very quickly. Now they’re talking up reopening the Palo nuke plant to build and power a third.
I saw some other company did this same thing in Iowa. They hold these public meetings at private facilities so that they can police who is and isnt allowed to attend. In the Iowa case they told all reporters (I believe it was A More Perfect Union that was covering this) that they weren’t allowed in the building, which caused a scene when residents found out, which lead to them abruptly canceling the meeting early and the datacenter people blaming it on reporters being in the vicinity. I believe in this case they also had the city council sign NDAs so that they couldn’t talk about it either, which doesnt seem like something that should be legal (if it even is).
Idk if this is the same event, but there were some tech bros that wanted to put up a crytpo mining facility in Cedar Falls that went through a similar process. I hate AI and the environmental impacts of data centers, but crypto has nothing redeeming, where at least occasionally AI gets it right.
There are a couple going up around Cedar Rapids that seemed to get through very quickly. Now they’re talking up reopening the Palo nuke plant to build and power a third.
This is the worst timeline.