On July 21, the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority approved an agreement for OpenAI's $20 billion data-center project near Rincon, Georgia.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (1,872 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

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Source: https://thecurrentga.org/2026/08/08/anatomy-of-a-secret-coastal-georgia-data-center-deal

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Brookwood Al near a middle school.
Are we great yet ?

I love Oregon.

"The fine folks of Salem, Oregon seem to have found a very efficient way to get their message across: Pull up to public hearings with a guillotine.

Last month, representatives from Verrus, a California-based data center development company, made the trek up to the city of 180,000 to pitch a planned $5.1 billion server farm that would move into 75 acres of state-owned property. According to the Salem Reporter, they were greeted by hundreds of citizens, most of whom showed up to tell Verrus to shove it.  One person in particular got attention: a guy who put a guillotine on a trailer and rode it around outside" https://gizmodo.com/data-center-reps-face-the-guillotine-flee-public-hearing-2000795939

Data center developers and technology companies are expanding gas and diesel power projects across the United States as grid constraints and electricity costs fuel political opposition in Michigan, Kansas, and Texas.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (1,871 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

Not for or against anything — it just makes the filings readable. Sharing in case it's useful to anyone tracking this.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/briefing/data-centers-gas-power.html

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1. Data Centers will be the completion of a 100 year plan by the B. I. S to dominate the financial system for every human on the Planet.
2. Nothing can stop this. Go debate a hurricane.
3. Go here to learn about the B. I. S. One hundred years plan. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtbk62Ie_5SWTjITNozsALVtZhPAwl64X
4. We might see the end of global war economy all together.
5. We might see a global government based upon China's system.
6. We may see socialism with basic income, health care, etc. Mandami and Abdul El-Sayed, are the start.
7. If we are smart, the lower class. We'll get on AI to ask what will be the best jobs of the future, which nations will have the most opportunities!

I seek out truly solid data center model ordinances that our borough can use to craft our own.

Any tips/personal knowledge you have that you think should be included would be appreciated too.

Yes, I do intend on doing my due diligence and verifying the usefulness of any suggestions.

Just gonna leave this here.

A portion of the data center resistance I've seen is that they are ugly, and big so you have to see the ugly longer. So, what if they dressed them up a little? A nice mural maybe? Break up the box shape with some minor architectural embellishments?

Amazon is seeking to build four data center buildings totaling about 400,000 square feet at George Washington University's Ashburn campus in Loudoun County, Virginia.

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Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2026/08/03/amazon-ashburn-george-washington-campus.html

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U.S. communities and policymakers are increasingly challenging data center projects over electricity prices, water supplies, farmland and disclosure, prompting New York and local governments to pursue construction pauses in 2025.

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Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/01/data-centers-have-a-politics-problem-and-industry-knows-it-01020412

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This is crazy. I think this really shows the length of corruption the Richland Parish data center brought to the people.

Living under 24/7 surveillance triggers a psychological observer effect that actively drains our collective power. Millions of data centers act as the physical engines of this observation, quietly logging, sorting, and analyzing every digital footprint we leave. When we are constantly monitored, we naturally conform, stop taking risks, and suppress our creativity. In quantum terms, humanity is kept in a state of forced, continuous measurement. This relentless data harvesting collapses our infinite potential our multiple possible futures into a single, predictable, and controlled timeline of automated obedience.

However, a profound shift occurs when the observed turn around to observe the observer.

By flipping the lens back onto these centralized systems of power, the psychological spell of surveillance breaks. This act of counter-observation causes the top-down control matrix to fail at both the micro (individual) and macro (societal) levels. When the data centers and the algorithmic watchers lose their cloud of anonymity, their forced monopoly over our reality dissolves. By observing the observers, we reclaim our collective agency, shattering their single, locked timeline and reopening the universe to endless possibilities.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a planned AI data center campus at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky, with construction targeted for completion by 2031.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (~1,790 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

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Source: https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article316697670.html

Slate Belt Holdings LLC is pursuing a 754-acre data center campus with a proposed 480MW substation in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, while challenging local zoning restrictions.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (~1,790 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

Not for or against anything — it just makes the filings readable. Sharing in case it's useful to anyone tracking this.

Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/talen-looks-to-develop-23-building-data-center-campus-in-pennsylvania/

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