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'Who Wants to Live Like This?' Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community
The tiny town of Holly Ridge, Louisiana will soon be home to a massive $27 billion artificial intelligence data center being built by Facebook parent company Meta that, when finished, will be the largest in the world.
However, residents of Holly Ridge do not feel honored that they are at the epicenter of Meta’s ambitious data center buildout, which they say has upended their entire community.
However, residents of Holly Ridge do not feel honored that they are at the epicenter of Meta’s ambitious data center buildout, which they say has upended their entire community.
Hull also said that the school has had to shut down its playground out of concern that Meta construction trucks will crash into children playing during recess.
The threat of trucks crashing into schools isn’t the only problem that the data center has brought. Local residents Joseph and Robin Williams told WWNO that they’ve noticed their tap water is frequently rust colored since Meta started building the data center, and they say their electricity frequently goes off for hours on end with no warning.
The threat of trucks crashing into schools isn’t the only problem that the data center has brought. Local residents Joseph and Robin Williams told WWNO that they’ve noticed their tap water is frequently rust colored since Meta started building the data center, and they say their electricity frequently goes off for hours on end with no warning.
WHEN WILL THIS SHIT STOP? They are building most of these data centers in the poorest areas of the world where they can use up their energy and water and then blame the poor community for already having energy and water issues - which in and of itself is fuckin evil) and frankly I really wonder what exactly these data centers are for. It can't just be for people making cartoons, fake videos and fake chats.
Something else is going on here.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/meta-data-center-louisiana
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