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Re:Meta is sinking $10B into rural Louisiana to build its wi... by SilverElfin on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:03PM (#45034663)
If you don’t trust it, look up videos on YouTube of people whose water has changed color, or who have terrible noise pollution 24/7 now, or whose rural landscape got completely destroyed and paved over. There is real negative impact on people’s lives, ones who will never gain from tech companies getting rich.
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Re:Meta is sinking $10B into rural Louisiana to build its wi... by paulddraper on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:40AM (#45035809)
Again, is there anything distinctive about data centers, or this industrial facilities in general?
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Re:Meta is sinking $10B into rural Louisiana to build its wi... by nightski on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:41AM (#45041206)
Why would that matter? They aren't building massive multi billion dollar industrial facilities, they are building data centers. Or are you saying the impacts are justified if it is considered an industrial facility?
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Re:Meta is sinking $10B into rural Louisiana to build its wi... by SilverElfin on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:29PM (#45042470)
I am not sure why the question is relevant to my comment. If it weren’t distinctive, what does that change about it being harmful and unfair?
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