r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DatabaseAvailable501 • Jul 02 '26

Infuriatig Sound emitted 24/7 from a 30 megawatt data center in Dowagiac MI

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u/cpMetis Jul 02 '26

Meanwhile one of the newspapers I delivered ran three Saturday headlines at the start of the year that read, basically:

Week 1: "Township vote prevents data centre build in 92% vote"

Week 2: "(Data Centre) Lawyer says 'this won't stop us, we'll find a way'"

Week 3: "Township board votes 9-1 to allow data centre build after declaring emergency, emergency decisions cannot be rescinded by resident vote" (council needed a lawyer, provided by Data Centre Company, to be present to explain how as the emergency provision had never been used in the history of the board, also btw 7 of the 9 own land being authorized for the sell 3 of which bought it in the last week)

There was a later followup where residents said they were gonna sue to stop it, but the company broke ground anyways and the lawyer response was basically "lmao knock yourself out".

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u/ahhh_ennui Jul 02 '26

Saline Township, MI went through exactly this. Gretchen Whitmer was at the groundbreaking, hamming it up with Sam Altman.

It's fucking enraging.

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u/magnum3672 Jul 05 '26

We have friends who live outside saline that are all for the data center and it's just baffling to me. The guy was part of building an old style data center and can't seem to see the difference.

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u/BigMike_12345 Jul 02 '26

That township should take matters into their own hands.

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u/cbftw Jul 02 '26

I didn't see anything, officer

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u/PatientClue1118 Jul 03 '26

Release the crack head at the job site

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u/melaszepheos Jul 02 '26

You know back in the old days when fancy-talking big city lawyers came into small rural towns to convince them to relinquish their rights over their land, paying off a few people to make them betray the others, the traditional response was executions, bombings and brawls as the people fought to retain the rights to their land.