Link: https://www.phillyvoice.com/data-centers-pennsylvania-poconos-payments-northpoint/

NorthPoint is offering the township $120 million to support the community's police department and other services over the next 15 years.

$10,000 check for the local home owners and land lords lol. Good luck selling your house by then.

Surreal centers too.

And don't forget the Mama centers!

Ceci n'est pas une data centre.

The first mama center company.

Not even offering bananas or champagne?

Dada Center companies want to own your local police as well.

We could do with fewer data centres and more dada centres, bringing avant-garde artistic provocation to every community to shake the people out of their complacency.

Dada center

Like, ce n’est pas un centre de données? Is it just full of DuChamp paintings?

Citizen dossiers need storage uh I mean MEMES. Think of the memes you can make with all this power. Heh. Just goofin right guys?

What about mama centers?

The first?? What is this, Pastarama?

dada center

f-father?

Dada Center, LOL.

Anyway, on the one hand, fuck 'em. On the other, extracting community value from any industry is the only way it can possibly work, and data centers don't provide long-term employment in any reasonable number, so it needs to be taxes and other more direct aid.

The local residents and their governments "just" (that word's doing a lot of heavy lifting, I know) need to hold them over a barrel until they get enough to truly make it worthwhile. Making the tech industry pay their fair share would also suppress the number of datacenters down to what actually matches the realistic demand estimates. What we're seeing right now is undercapitalized bullshit trying to externalize the costs and retain the profits.

Easy to say, hard to do so, so I guess what it comes down to is this: fuck 'em.

Dredd is (not?) very fond of your idea.

Nation states are over, corpo states are the future. Deal with it.

Too bad for them. I'm Mr. Nimbus and I control the police.

Wow. That’s a helluva typo

Rack mounted ready-mades.

Dada? Absurdist art, like an andalusian dog?

seriously. first thing I felt playing cyberpunk is it feels like the not to distant future society wise. well except for all the privacy. maybe blend it with minority report.

Corporations shouldn’t be permitted to donate money to the community services of their choice.
They should be substantially taxed and elected officials should fulfill the expectations of residents.
We all know they’ll buy the politicians too so it’s just a pipe dream.

Radio ga ga da da center.

People at REAL dada centers want to eat a clock, recite the alphabet then become fish.

they arnt already? they are freely giving them to use thier AI flock/axon, motorala which feeds into plantir ai for mass surveillance.

Dada as in Idi Amin Dada, I assume?

I mean, it fits, what with the human rights abuses and whatnot...

I had a film class prof warn us about the sheep's eye scene but it didn't make watching it get sliced with a razor much better.

No, it's full of toilets turned on their sides.

Just curious, what are they offering to the renters, the homeless, and the unemployed?

What about the Mama Centers?

You'll soon get tired of the 24/7 recitation of I Zimbra and the signed urinals everywhere

I wasnt just a few pataphysical centres too. Need more Ubu!