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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead (www.404media.co)
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[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 1 points 17 hours ago

Serving the public interest is not already a prerequisite? Surely gov't cannot arbitratily pull this card?

I might be talking out of my ass but i'm pretty sure using imminent domain is not only needed for matters of public interest but specifically needs to be backed by it when you want to use it.