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11. Data centers are trying to move into our rural area and their biggest investors are our local power company

Tue Jun 30, 2026, 07:21 PM

3 hrs ago

Sounds like a huge conflict of interest to me.

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I do not understand why delisen 5 hrs ago #3

"Also, we need everyone to stop bathing and drinking so much water." tanyev 5 hrs ago #5

Dude- mwmisses4289 5 hrs ago #6

Shut down the effing data centers!' C Moon 5 hrs ago #7

Glen Younkin was our last governor... renordgren 5 hrs ago #8

Everyone must serve the needs of the tech billionaires dalton99a 4 hrs ago #9

Same thing we say about SpaceX RussBLib 3 hrs ago #12

404 media is paywalled out the wazoo. Has anyone actually read this? usonian 2 min ago #15