• Womble@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Real answer? Because train lines cut through a lot of land and every landowner along the route can hold up progress with legal objections. Flock cameras are just attached to poles and data centres are compact.

    • unglueclass23@programming.devOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There’s a saying : “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”

      Big tech are using every trick in their book to circumvent regulations and to continue building data centers despite local community disapproval over noise, pollution and a myriad of other problems…

      Of course, since data centers are (according to the DOJ), “a matter of national, economic, and energy security”, doesn’t matter even if they are ran by illegal gas turbines.

      And they’re not so small

      Also, this consideration for others property… man it would have been nice to have had it when the US was building highways through black communities…

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        using every trick in their book to circumvent regulations and to continue building

        when the US was building highways through black communities

        The US building highways through black communities is a big part of why we have committees that can hold up rail development. And do you really want a government that uses “every trick in the book” to build railroads? No! You want a government that follows its own rules both in letter and in spirit, and one that reigns in the excesses of the market economy when necessary, and one that simply writes better laws.