"Rural America is going to be forced to accommodate more of these facilities [viz. detention centers and data centers], and the scale of what is underway makes transparency requirements even more urgent."
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How Trump rewards his loyal red rural voters -
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Why not? The Nazis liked to put their concentration camps in rural areas too.
#PS1fascism
Data center developers requiring landowners and local officials to sign nondisclosure agreements is far from unique to Mason County, Ky.
Rural America Is Getting Blindsided by Something New
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“Some things do not have a price,” she told me, “and the land that we’re using to eat off of as a nation and as a planet, there’s just no way that you could replace this soil.”
A sign of things to come. Rural land & property bought up via federal secrecy or non-disclosure agreements. No thought given to infrastructure needs or tax loss to to the local govt.
Detention centres.
Data centres.
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Getting what they voted for. Just don’t want it in their back yard. Someone else’s is ok. Always the case with these types.
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