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Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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There are nonprofits that help organize to prevent the exploitation/displacement of low income populations while higher income areas are left to self organize. It would also have been useful to track political affiliation of these neighborhoods since it could be a political divide instead. I think people in the the $133k-$250k would be more conservative and thus more pro data center.
As an aside: I wish people would quit using the term 'working class' to refer to income level, its such a fuzzy term. Using 'low income' and 'high income' makes more sense in this case as it better reflects what Geoff Holtzman is talking about and working class could be refering to employment type.