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‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart
(www.theguardian.com)
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Huh... this is the first I'm hearing of this data center being built, and I live within 25 miles of it. Sure explains Amazon's sudden expansion in the surrounding area over the past year, and also explains why a couple of the major 'small towns' here have been trying to aggressively gentrify over the past couple years.
That's like not even close to what happened, but okay. I mean, it's a very simplified version, but lord there's a lot missing to paint the picture.