Good job NJ. Glad to see my state will do the right thing sometimes.
What bugs me is that is really shouldn’t be legal for tech companies to just unilaterally decide that the local residents are going to subsidize their power costs.
But we’re in America, where every single douchy thing a capitalist can do will absolutely be done, and both of our ruling parties will just shrug and keep collecting their bribes in the interim.
Good on the people for waking up to this and fighting back.
It’s more that local authorities are offering incentives to big tech to bring in those data centers, ostensibly because they think it will benefit the area, but more likely because it is benefitting the local authorities personally through kickbacks or campaign donations.
Tangentially relevant: Benn Jordan posted a video about problems with data centers yesterday.
Jersey bay bee fuck yeah
Oh. One nice thing to hear, which is a rarity to me. Thank you for posting this :)
