The whole U.S. is experiencing drought levels and [they] keep pushing these data centers by bribing and coercing the municipal, county, and State level politicians into accepting them while also giving major incentives to these corps(es) AND ALSO siging over "water rights" to these conglomerates, leaving The People to fend over whatever is left.
Here in FL, 60% or more of our aquifer access and usage has been signed over to these data centers. Meanwhile, the corporate and private sectors are seeing massive, unrestrained construction growth across almost all sectors. The whole of Florida is between 6-20+ ft BELOW the current required water needed just for residential usage across all 5 of Florida's Water Mgmt Districts.
Add to that, the selling off of our wild lands, our farm land, and even our conservation land, and Florida is slowly disappearing behind and under concrete. At the current rate of expansion, at some point between 2030-2050 we will see megalopolii spring up from Miami up to Orlando and west to Tampa, from Orlando/Kissimmee up the FL Turnpike tow Gainseville/Lake City, from Daytona Beach up I-95 to the FL-GA line and even into GA up to Kings Bay and maybe even Savannah, and from Tallahassee west to Mobile, ALA and maybe even all the way to New Orleans, LA.
And it may even be that we have a megalopolii from Homestead all the way to Savannah on the East Coast/I-95, and from Ft Myers (or south of there) all the way at up and around the Big Bend all the way to New Orleans or further west. If that happens, FL will look like one big giant concrete circle from Savannah all the way around the peninsula and out to N.O. or further West, with a giant swathe of concrete bisecting the length of the state from Okeechobee to Valdosta or even Atlanta.
It's ridiculous. And no matter how much we call, email, or write our politicians down here, it has very little effect. So far, we've been able to kill a couple of these data canters, but now our politicians and bureaucrats are convening meetings in private, blatantly violating our state, county, and municipal laws and rules requiring sufficient advanced notice of said meetings. In some cases, notices of the meetings go out mere minutes ahead of the scheduled times, leaving no time for proper mobilization from The People. And when lawsuits are brought, the courts schedule them so far out, that construction on these developments has already begun in earnest, money has already been distributed, pocketed, spent, and kicked back to the pols and bureaucrats, and then dispersed to the very judges making rulings on these cases. In almost every instance, lawsuits have either been thrown out by the judges, or rulings in favor of the corps(es) have been made. Blatantly violating The Will of The People.
We're getting to a point where the only recourse will be of a physical nature. And I shudder to think what that will look like, if and when it happens.
Are these data centers for all the crypto coinage? Or are they saving your bathroom photos as you scroll phone apps while you sit on the potty? I am concerned that persecution of people from oppressive governments may be stored in the United States for use against people in their countries.
The whole U.S. is experiencing drought levels and [they] keep pushing these data centers by bribing and coercing the municipal, county, and State level politicians into accepting them while also giving major incentives to these corps(es) AND ALSO siging over "water rights" to these conglomerates, leaving The People to fend over whatever is left.
Here in FL, 60% or more of our aquifer access and usage has been signed over to these data centers. Meanwhile, the corporate and private sectors are seeing massive, unrestrained construction growth across almost all sectors. The whole of Florida is between 6-20+ ft BELOW the current required water needed just for residential usage across all 5 of Florida's Water Mgmt Districts.
Add to that, the selling off of our wild lands, our farm land, and even our conservation land, and Florida is slowly disappearing behind and under concrete. At the current rate of expansion, at some point between 2030-2050 we will see megalopolii spring up from Miami up to Orlando and west to Tampa, from Orlando/Kissimmee up the FL Turnpike tow Gainseville/Lake City, from Daytona Beach up I-95 to the FL-GA line and even into GA up to Kings Bay and maybe even Savannah, and from Tallahassee west to Mobile, ALA and maybe even all the way to New Orleans, LA.
And it may even be that we have a megalopolii from Homestead all the way to Savannah on the East Coast/I-95, and from Ft Myers (or south of there) all the way at up and around the Big Bend all the way to New Orleans or further west. If that happens, FL will look like one big giant concrete circle from Savannah all the way around the peninsula and out to N.O. or further West, with a giant swathe of concrete bisecting the length of the state from Okeechobee to Valdosta or even Atlanta.
It's ridiculous. And no matter how much we call, email, or write our politicians down here, it has very little effect. So far, we've been able to kill a couple of these data canters, but now our politicians and bureaucrats are convening meetings in private, blatantly violating our state, county, and municipal laws and rules requiring sufficient advanced notice of said meetings. In some cases, notices of the meetings go out mere minutes ahead of the scheduled times, leaving no time for proper mobilization from The People. And when lawsuits are brought, the courts schedule them so far out, that construction on these developments has already begun in earnest, money has already been distributed, pocketed, spent, and kicked back to the pols and bureaucrats, and then dispersed to the very judges making rulings on these cases. In almost every instance, lawsuits have either been thrown out by the judges, or rulings in favor of the corps(es) have been made. Blatantly violating The Will of The People.
We're getting to a point where the only recourse will be of a physical nature. And I shudder to think what that will look like, if and when it happens.
Are these data centers for all the crypto coinage? Or are they saving your bathroom photos as you scroll phone apps while you sit on the potty? I am concerned that persecution of people from oppressive governments may be stored in the United States for use against people in their countries.