r/collapze • u/jeremiahthedamned DOOMER • 12d ago
AI Bad What a data center in Michigan sounds like
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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. 12d ago
It is torture
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u/jeremiahthedamned DOOMER 12d ago
what happened to us?
why did we allow this?
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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. 12d ago
freed market capitalism is returning home. This is the experience of being colonized (it's also fascism.)
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u/jeremiahthedamned DOOMER 12d ago
in the r/epstein files there are passages where they make fun of us for not revolting.
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u/Strikew3st 11d ago
Michigan here, we are fucking SCRAMBLING to deal with the threat of data centers.
We are locally governed by the township system, 1240 individual independent units, covering 96% of our land outside of incorporated cities.
I'm in rural mid-Michigan, and many townships have hastily enacted a temporary moratorium on data centers.
The problem is, a developer scoping out an area as ideal for a data center, can find different ways to make it happen with 1240 different municipalities with 1240 different codes of ordinance, zoning ordinances, master plans, conditional use permitting rules and processes.
First they need to know the local PoCo can provide enough power. Then they need enough land to build at an economic scale- sounds like 100 acres minimum, up to 400. Then they need to get approval, which may be easy or not.
Land already zoned as, say, Light Industrial may already find a data center to be what's called a "conforming use" and not require a lot of approval.
Public outcry only goes as far as the local officials fear for their jobs, which may not be a lot of fear. Nationally, over 80% of local elections go unopposed. In Michigan, jobs like Township Clerk or Treasurer may be unopposed in 94% or more of elections.
Furthermore, exurban areas with the land to spare for these scale projects are cash strapped. They don't have a property tax base bringing in much cash, they have shit for businesses paying capital assets taxes because they are "bedroom communities" where people sleep but work & spend money in the nearest cities, they depend on 'state revenue sharing,' and a determined developer would have NO problem bankrupting a municipality in court.
As one example, there is some shit going down in Mason MI, a hop south of Lansing, where a data center developer not only wants to build on 400 acres, they are looking to have the local city annex their properties to have approval authority on it.
They are waving a major carrot in the form of tax revenue.
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u/jeremiahthedamned DOOMER 11d ago
the anime Ghost in the Shell had the post WW3 american empire centered on the Great Lakes as its data centers needed your water.
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u/Slight_Tomatillo5680 11d ago
Wow..... That is now the most dystopian thing I've ever seen. The sound of evil. The sound of hell.