Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment

Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment

The center also found that each new incident now draws far more secondary amplification than it did earlier in the year. Emporia's mayor said the threats to his commission didn't appear to come from locals, and Salix, Emporia, and Marshall have all now canceled, moved, or restricted public meetings because of them, at a point when more than 500 local restrictions on data centers are in place nationwide.

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Zaranthos Guess we'll just have to put AI data centers in space. Wonder who can do that? :tongueout: Reply

chaos215bar2 So have any of these elected representatives decided to actually explain their decisions? Or did they think they would just go on blatantly ignoring what their constituents actually wanted, while literally having people arrested at council meetings for trying to voice their opinions, without things ever escalating? I'm not saying violence and death threats are okay, but anyone who's surprised at this development hasn't been paying attention. You can't just continuously make life harder, trample people's rights, and hoard ever more wealth and power for the 0.001% without things breaking at some point. Reply

Bigshrimp People are pissed off when they get no say in what gets approved in their town. If the majority says no to something being built and gets approved anyways, that's corruption and those that approved should be held accountable. Violence is not something I condone. I understand the anger though. Reply

Bigshrimp chaos215bar2 said: So have any of these elected representatives decided to actually explain their decisions? Or did they think they would just go on blatantly ignoring what their constituents actually wanted, while literally having people arrested at council meetings for trying to voice their opinions, without things ever escalating? I'm not saying violence and death threats are okay, but anyone who's surprised at this development hasn't been paying attention. You can't just continuously make life harder, trample people's rights, and hoard ever more wealth and power for the 0.001% without things breaking at some point. Yeah, they don't care, that's why they don't explain their decisions and why they arrest people for using their first amendment rights. The people that are paying attention are noticing a dire trend too. It's only going to get worse until more people stand up and push back. Reply

Why_Me China has to be loving this news. Reply

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