A family farm donated 87 acres of land to the city of Taylor, Texas to be made into a public park.
The city sold it for $10 million to build a 135,000 square foot data center.
BREAKING: Ohio secretly gave 100% sales tax breaks, lasting up to 40 years, to tech giants for data centers, per https://t.co/9Wr6itu0Jb.
The exemptions—signed by Gov. Kasich—give Google, Meta and Amazon at least $600 million each.
Legislators say the contracts can't be undone.
When will people understand that this predatory pricing model will always be true of anything coming out of Silicon Valley? It is literally their only model. 1. Operate at a loss so everyone signs up 2. Wipe out competitors 3. Slam users with profane monopolistic costs
@The_Finer_Print@faiyazasm@Abu_Salah9 Psalms 137:9
NIV
Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
New Living Translation
Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!
King James
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out
@FearedBuck He deleted the tweet that he made a few days ago, he planned to shoot a black person by going around bothering people. And his dumb ass ended up shooting himself in the process.
Let me get this straight.
Trump, the only president since Nixon not to release his tax returns, and who promised he would release his tax returns when he was president, is suing the government for $10 billion dollars in "damages" for leaked tax returns which reveal his corruption.
And his DOJ, which is run by his personal lawyer who he appointed as "Acting AG," is going to settle.
So the American people are now gong to personally pay a corrupt president $10 billion of our hard earned tax dollars, because his feelings got hurt when his shady tax returns were leaked?
Got it. 👌
🚨DATA CENTERS IMMUNITY ALERT🚨 (HB 126)
HB 126 was written by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and introduced by Rep. Meredith Craig & Rep. Adam Matthews. It has already passed the House and could get a vote in Senate Judiciary tomorrow! If a data center causes damage beyond physical property damage, the local government under HB 126 would NOT be able to sue the data center to recover that loss.
Under HB 126, If a disaster happens with respect to a data center – guess who is going to pick up the tab?—- WE ARE!
There’s a situation in Georgia, where the data centers used FAR more water than the owners says it would. Under HB 126 if a data center drains a local community of available water, the community cannot sue for the damage caused to residents or local farmers!! Ohio could be next!
This bill thus protects Blackstone private equity at the expense of citizens and ohio farmers. It’s up for a vote in judiciary committee tomorrow!!
EMAIL JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS & SENATE PRESIDENT MCCOLLEY TODAY!
“Protect our right to sue data centers if they strip water from our local water supply or our farmlands! VOTE NO on HB 126.”
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The ballroom went from $200 million & privately funded, to $300 million, to $400 million and taxpayers cover some of it, to MAGA trying to silently jam through $1 BILLION, 100% of which is our tax money, for this ballroom.
WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
Religious people will describe heaven as a classless, stateless, moneyless society with no private property, no suffering, and everyone’s needs met, then turn around and call communism evil. It will never stop being funny.
there are really people who wake up every day, get dicked all the way down to the prostate by the government, and say to themselves “this is because of immigrants” and mean it