a) This is fantastic
b) We gotta be careful that this doesn't become a NIMBY thing wherein everybody's fine with someone else's* water, land, electricity, health getting fried --
we need NO DATA CENTERS FOR ANYONE to be the rallying cry
*the same 'someone else' it always is! 👀
Local communities are starting to vote against data centers. The more they know, the less they support them.
This is an issue that can motivate rural voters. They want to protect their land, electricity, and water.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban
Maybe now is a good time to discuss how MSG, monosodium glutamate, is actually partly responsible for the proliferation of the upscale taste we call "umami," and that anti-MSG pearl-clutching, none of whose health effects are borne out by scientific study, is really just weird anti-Asian sentiment.
