A Michigan town board and its planning commission both rejected the largest data center in the state. Now it's being built anyway.
In Saline Township, Michigan, a giant $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data center was deeply unpopular, but that ultimately didn't matter.
After the commission and board voted down the data center, the developer sued and the town settled. Then, construction began.
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the roko's basilisk guys are so funny bc they correctly intuit that our lives will be controlled by a psychotic, amoral algorithm that hates humanity but they think some nerd in SF is going to build it on his macbook. it was already built, in 1602, by the Dutch
"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world. A nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully."
"We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts." - Hunter S. Thompson