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It’s wild to think that ‘actually being useful’ is considered a backup plan and not the starting point. Usually, you prove the value before you use all the resources, not the other way around.
Microsoft committed too much too soon and now they’re desperate.
They wrote a “Happy Birthday” sign with a big ass B, big ass I, big ass R… Oh, no!
Motherfuckers have been buying people out of their homes, emptying entire neighborhoods just to get access to land near power plants and near water sources to build their AI data centers, they’ve been polluting drinking water sources and siphoning the electricity of entire towns, and polluting like crazy, and they’re affraid society might not accept their useless AI porn generating bullshit? Because let’s face it, that’s what it’s mostly used for.
Where did they buy neighborhoods to bulldoze them?
Here’s one example:
There’s also Itasca in Illinois
I bet you can find more
They reportedly paid an average of around $950,000 per house — which was significantly above what that land would have been worth as residential
Why are you trying to make it seem like the homeowners have been screwed over? It makes no fucking sense.
There is a reason they all sold. But that it is happening is still crazy. As if there is no empty space anywhere?
It doesn’t matter. They didn’t hold a gun to anyone’s head. It’s hard to imagine anyone being dumb enough to not realizer what a gift that is.
What’s crazy is people acting like this is some kind conspiracy that screwed over the homeowners, who made out like bandits.
