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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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    One of the more fucked up aspects of eminent domain. City/county/state governments can nuke deeds by using eminent domain. It allows them to turn a plot of land, regardless prior restrictions, into things like dumps.

    The fucked up part about it is they can also turn public lands into private lands with that same trick.

    What’s frustrating is we still need eminent domain for good. It’s basically the only way to build railways and roads. It even ends up being one of the few ways to deploy things like district heating/cooling and new fiber lines.

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      Eminent domain didn’t factor into this particular case. The Taylor Economic Development Corporation simply ignored the deed and sold the land to BPP Projects LLC/Blueprint while Taylor City Council and Judge Ryan Larson approved and upheld it respectively.

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      I believe eminent domain should have a very limited scope legally and should mostly only be used for public infrastructure projects and housing honestly…

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        But AI is Public Infrastructure.

        /s^just in case

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      We have different definitions of good. I don’t see how building a highway system through other animals homes is considered “good”.

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          Agree to disagree. I don’t believe humans own the earth.

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