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An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

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Submitted ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18062025/bessemer-alabama-recommends-changing-zoning-laws-to-accommodate-proposed-data-center/

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  • compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idiotic. This whole country just rolls over for whatever capital wants, the wishes of the people be damned.

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shinra at Corel vibes.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So that city wants fo poison it’s citizens? Maybe the citizens should have a say in this.

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  • underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weird headline. Is it the city making this recommendation, or the…

    Despite universal opposition by the dozens of residents present at the meeting, commissioners voted to recommend changes to the city’s zoning laws to allow data centers in areas zoned for light industrial use and to rezone a 700-acre property from agricultural to light industrial to accommodate the construction of a hyperscale data center.

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