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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIntegrity: I hope farmers and other rural Americans like the feeling
Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected M from data center developers to sell his farmland.
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2026-02-25T22:01:10.687381Z
Another in Wisconsin turned down M.
America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech.
This is what integrity looks like.
eppur_se_muova
(41,542 posts)All they need is space and connections for power and water. They should not block access to good soil formed by decades, or centuries, of favorable environmental conditions.
Build them in 10-year flood zones. All that hardware will be outmoded by the time the next flood hits anyway.
Mr. Evil
(3,455 posts)There's lots of available land in Hanford, Washington.
BidenRocks
(3,061 posts)They can power up with tides or geothermal.
Ask an existing data center how to do it!
Figarosmom
(11,160 posts)The farmer. Causing them to go bankrupt. The right complains about "good" farmland going to solar farms while supporting the energy guzzling AI centers to developers for their weapons and surveillance of American people.
I sure hope people start looking deeply at their priorities.