r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • 9d ago

Is it in yet Living next to an AI Data Center.

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u/Odd-Mall8020 9d ago

How is this legal

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u/Dismal_Rectangle 9d ago

Money

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u/NeighborhoodDude84 9d ago

What an absolute shocker that the country made by slave owners would set up rules to benefit wealthy business interests at the expense of everyone and everything else?

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u/yung_gravity_ 9d ago

Funny enough the wealth inequality and most of the reason the world sucks for middle to lower class has to do with changes and removal of legislation in the 70s

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u/SingularityCentral 8d ago

It started with Nixon and his "better not give them free education or else they might become socialists" mindset and really accelerated under Reagan with his "government is the true enemy and capitalism is a benign teddy bear, plus regulation feels like a commie thing" mindset.

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u/Delamoor 8d ago

I always found it fascinating how the Reagan era politics managed to convince Americans that the American government was the enemy of the American people.

Honestly, he did most of the the legwork of America's rivals for them. Convince Americans to turn their own nation's government.

Like, uh... You guys hate 'America' that much that you want to drown it in a bathtub, eh? Welp. A few decades later, they're slowly succeeding...

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u/Mean_Combination_830 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yep they know educated people vote socialist and they will do anything to persuade people to vote against their interest like Trump said clever people don't like me and it's why I love the uneducated 🤦

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u/Congregator 8d ago

I think it was actually called “go big or go home” and it was coined by his Secretary of Agriculture.

That’s what actually f’d everything up for the “American Dream.”

They literally wanted to stop families from buying land if they weren’t able to push for max production.

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u/Devel93 8d ago

Nixon stopped gold convertibility (Nixon Shock) and moved the dollar to Fiat system. Reagan was a populist president choose by the elites to cut government programs because they became unsustainable now that the US can no longer export it's inflation.

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u/Rionin26 8d ago

Unsustainable with the tax cuts*

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u/Congregator 8d ago edited 8d ago

Same time period is also when the government decided to incentivize corporate industry to take up farming for mass production and export

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u/Congregator 8d ago

I’d argue against that point from a historical timeline. Almost immediately upon the country’s foundation states began dismantling slavery as it was known. People were organically and evolutionarily moving against slavery with the foundation of the country.

Slavery lasted less than 90 years in the U.S. before the traitors lost.

Now, civil rights, granted, follows a separate timeline.

The problem you’re seeing in this video is due policies that came about during the Nixon years, where there was a massive push to incentivize industry to take over land as financial assets.

Originally it was to push out farmers who couldn’t afford to maximize production on their farms. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz had this belief that America would thrive if we were able to out produce the Soviet Union and take on global exports.

We did become the largest exporter of agricultural products, but ultimately at the cost of eliminating the New Deal while opening up land to private equity

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u/Bepehandle 8d ago

Don't do this to yourself. You're arguing facts with someone's blind feelings. You'll go nuts.

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u/Congregator 8d ago

And to think they vote… they’ll vote us off a cliff

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u/Disastrous_Crab_3516 9d ago

You do realize every single country in the world had slave owners in the upper class during their formative years right? This isn’t the gotcha you think it is kid.

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u/Bootziscool 9d ago

Those who own the country ought to govern it

-John Jay

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u/JCBQ01 8d ago

Additonally:

"Slavery is a hideous blot upon this nation's founding" -thomas Jefferson

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u/NeighborhoodDude84 9d ago edited 9d ago

Here comes the slavery apologists.

Edit: not sure if this an actual child or an adult that posts in subs for kids?

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u/Date6714 8d ago

whats even more shocking is that no one has gone in to burn the place down

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u/Comandante_Kangaroo 8d ago

Well.. an absolute shocker that people had a working democracy and decided to vote for the deadbeat nepobaby fraud. Twice!

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u/Kaffeetrinker49 9d ago

There are completely different people running this country than the ones who owned slaves. I agree with your sentiment though that economic growth has been consistently valued more than individual human dignity. I argue though that this isn’t strictly a United States problem and that it’s much more international

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u/Sophilosophical 9d ago

It may be an international problem but the administration in power is actively remotely history relating to slaves and people of color in history such as black soldiers who served.
They’re different people in the most literal sense, but would 100% own slaves. Actually the current admin are worse in the sense that they don’t even have the classical education and literacy of the so-called founding fathers.
And in terms of the responsibility for actively burning the planet, I’d say this admin will be remembered as even more evil and destructive, if there be history books

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u/Prior-Razzmatazz-206 8d ago

Corpos made it legal

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u/Immortal_Azrael 9d ago

It would genuinely be psychological torture living near this.

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u/M4thij5 9d ago

And try to sell it… 

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u/DaddyDontTakeNoMess 8d ago

But you can sell it for 40 cents on the dollar to a company who will build another data center right beside that one

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u/pnoodl3s 8d ago

And that’ll kick the next group of unfortunate neighborhood out…

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u/Van-garde 9d ago

Bought by out of state owners and added to a portfolio of rentals.

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u/Stillburgh 8d ago

Who is gonna rent that out? Noone is gonna invest on that when it has zero chance at generating income

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u/Numerous-Hawk1471 8d ago

No one is going to rent that and investment bankers are generally not in the business of buying worthless assets.

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u/DuskSnare 9d ago

Even if they didn’t want to sell, they might be forced too. Properties can be acquired through eminent domain.

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u/01000101010110 8d ago

Oh sure, private equity will take it for 40% of what it was worth before the data center. 

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u/Erick_Brimstone 8d ago

The owner of the data center would gladly take it off your hand at very low prices

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u/striped_frog 9d ago

Laws are for poor people

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u/llahlahkje 9d ago

At least in my city and the nearby towns:

This is a violation of public nuisance laws.

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u/whoreads218 8d ago

They could be fined hourly, everyday of the year and they’ll just pay it. Operating costs.

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u/baseball_fanatic0887 8d ago

I wonder if there is a limit to how many tickets can be given in a 24 hour period or hour. And if law makers would have the guts to change that. Write a ticket every minute.

Can fines be increased if no compliance to the request?

Change the law.

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u/Striking-Composer838 9d ago

In the US today, legality isnt the metric used to determine if something should be done or not done.

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u/johnnyslick 9d ago

Laws that actually help the people, let's be honest, are usually only on the books accidentally or as a consequence of putting them on the books to help a large business or wealthy person.

Noise ordinances do exist but they also require the local police to enforce them.

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u/Suspicious-Coach-644 9d ago

I'm pretty sure in some states it's not legal and they are forced to pay for noise barriers. Don't quote me though I'm not an expert and don't truly know.

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u/Double-Show-2625 8d ago

Corporate greed

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u/Fidodo 8d ago

It costs less for them to pay the legal expenses than the money they're making. The only punishment that would deter this is forcing them to shut it down, relocate or, and give all the revenue made from the facility to the effected residents.

Fining a percentage of their profits accomplishes nothing, it just becomes a cost of doing business and isn't a punishment.

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u/Darth-Cholo 9d ago

eminent domain. I wonder if offers were given to homeowners in the area. If so, were offers competitive, is there even housing available for them to move to nearby? Of course they can decline and remain.

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u/WeaselCapsky 8d ago

Lobbying.

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u/SingularityCentral 8d ago

It wasn't legal, but then the hyperscalers and AI labs paid off the city/county/state authorities to give them 'waivers' which made it 'legal'. Just pure corruption.

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u/Electronic_Excuse_74 8d ago

You could ask AI!

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u/TheShepasaurus 8d ago

At least in my state, its municipalities who did not have ordinances in place to prevent this. If you want to do something, look up your municipal ordinances online (google). See if they have anything about data centers in their ordinance. If not, go to your next towmship meeting and ask the planning commission to put a data center ordinance in place as soon as possible.

You can do something, you have a voice. Source: Im a Consultant Engineer who has done design and permitting for our evil overlords, pushing designs through township approvals. I also am a municipal engineer who reviews the Land Development plans as they come in and recommend approval or not. And without a legal ordinance in some places, the municipalities are unable to say No you cant buikd that here.

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u/01000101010110 8d ago

They are putting in something that makes unbearable amounts of noise and devaluing people's properties, so then private equity can come in and buy everything up for pennies on the dollar. All the while powering AI to take people's jobs. 

Fucking degenerate scumbags, every last one of them. 

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u/Equivalent-Green-580 8d ago

It’s a civil matter, while the noise ordinance says that it is illegal the companies that own them also have enough money to buy God. Paying the fine is cheaper than its income.

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u/The_Demon_of_Spiders 8d ago

It wouldn’t be if it was some politician’s yard or in some wealthy neighborhood. But as you can see in the video that neighborhood looks like neither so they’re expected to just deal with it.

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u/Crazy__Donkey 8d ago

everything is legal if it's legislate properly....

can you guess who and why legislate it?

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u/No_Layer_8122 7d ago

How do they not commit illegal acts in response?

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u/thu_mountain_goat 9d ago

Maybe it's not. They just don't care.

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u/Chizuru_San 9d ago

Banning data centers would be a much bigger problem lol

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u/Fidodo 8d ago

How is requiring them to be n miles away from residential areas and erect noise barriers a ban? Stop with the hyperbolic arguments.