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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
You can bet the politicians, Rich, famous and elites won't have them in their neighborhoods. Everyone else, well sure there's no harm in them, build away.

If you are reading some of the responses in this thread and reading the flock camera thread and still think this is all fine and dandy. Good on you. Carry on.

Funny skins mentions china multiple times. Many people think that is exactly where we are headed and are not that far from the surveillance state.

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Originally posted by HRK:
See that's it, they need all these data centers to crunch the FLOCK data,

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Not it you join the #resistance, it's a revolution, we demand justice!

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
You can bet the politicians, Rich, famous and elites won't have them in their neighborhoods. Everyone else, well sure there's no harm in them, build away.

If you are reading some of the responses in this thread and reading the flock camera thread and still think this is all fine and dandy. Good on you. Carry on.

Funny skins mentions china multiple times. Many people think that is exactly where we are headed and are not that far from the surveillance state.

See that's it, they need all these data centers to crunch the FLOCK data, it's important you know so they can sell more shoes, lawn equipment, wine and other items!

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Originally posted by murphman:
It's a simple fact that we are going to have data centers - yes, the new, big ones: DATA CENTERS as previously denominated in this thread. The huge amounts of data attendant to modern society demand them. The question is where.

In my area, this is a huge issue. A data center was recently rebuffed, largely because the local government officials were "fast tracking" it with no real disclosures, bypassing the zoning/land use permitting processes, and generally telling everyone not to bother their pretty little heads about complicated, big boy things.

The predictable result, given the pre-existing (justified) distrust of our local county government, was a veritable uprising against the data center.

It was slated to go into a beatific, parklike area, not the commercially zoned area, and no one ever made clear what the water and electricity usages would be, potential environmental impact, or how big their tax breaks could be.

It was a blueprint of how to do everything wrong. Frankly, a data center could probably be good for our county, if placed in the proper location. It's going to be a while before anyone is willing to broach that possiblity again, though.