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https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-04-08/6b-data-center-festus-voters-oust-every-incumbent-council-member
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/residents-file-lawsuit-against-city-of-festus-over-6b-data-center-project/63-539fb805-5f08-4e2e-b8c3-1e3551ad4cd0
override367
Oh no the council members will just have to learn to live with themselves and their bribes
WeirdWalker
This is my idea of Festivus.
FermentTheRich3000
I need more good news.
AyatollahBahloni
Fuck these data centers.
NotThePoint
70% Trump voters.
Munchman347
Festus, the town that produces 'Blue Star' bottle caps...
EroticZombiePants
Festus really is one of the more delightful town names our country has.
grandestgrandeur
The sad thing is, is that corruption/greed transcends race, gender, sexual orientation or belief. Because there was a story about tribal elders who were MORE than happy to give up reservation land, despite what their constituents/families, to datacenters just for money. ALL of them were immediately removed from their positions by their constituents. That's what these datacenters count on. That ppl will roll over, forget and then will simply try again. Datacenters need to be banned PERMANENTLY.
FortifiedWhine
I thought Festus was the secular alternative to Christmas that Frank Costanza invented?
Sangueffusor
southernparm
DTF St. Louis
gayvillian
Missouri legislators have been fucking their constituents HARD the past few years and people there are fed the fuck up. I would not be surprised to see massive turnover in the state legislature soon. Even the most gerrymandered districts are chock full of pissed off voters whos representatives have been giving them the finger and daring them to do something. Well, they're doing something now. Voting you out is the nice option. You dont wanna see the not nice one.
DaffydeDick
Wonder why they kicked out the 4th member who didn't vote for the data center.
REOJackwagon
I would guess because "vote them all out" is easier to remember than "vote most of them out, 3 of them, but not what's his name", and also doesnt fit on a sign
Neednoggle
It threw me off quite a bit when I first read that as "fetus voters"
Bigblackdick69
My dyslexic ass was not prepared
Terran81
*phew
Not just me. I was afraid something was wrong with me for a second.
LearnTheDifferenceBetweenYourAndYoure
Same. I'm like, "I think they're called Gen Alpha".
Anaphriel
Not data centres for festivus!
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
They aired their grievances.
sochilln
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SamHandwhich
BrickSprickly
Billis75
How many of them are now on the boards of these companies?
Khanamana324
All of them probably.
circlebreaker
Festus city council once voters got done with them
nestbound
We need more Festus for the rest of us.
Jimthebutler
Good. You dont represent the people, we will remove you.
Fargus57
Too bad it can't happen to Fetterman (and a few other members of Congress). Really need to change that ability.
Timetoupdatemyusername
Papa Nurgle is proud of them.
cbaggs32
It's a very methy area, so I'd say more Slaanesh approved
Omicron416
I thought it was Grandfather Nurgle ...
spookyu
It's more to denote the fatherly care in which he imparts his.....gifts, less of any formal honorific in that sense, fairly sure I've heard both.
theovermynd
It is, it's both. Generally speaking his greater demons, the Great Unclean Ones, are made so directly in his image that the lesser demons and followers view them as direct extensions OF nurgle himself. So they will frequently call the GUO's "father nurgle" or "papa nurgle" and the actual nurgle Grandfather Nurgle. The GUO's stick with Father Nurgle, tho, because yeah. There's nothing between them and him. This has been a public service announcement by some guy that knows way too much Warhammer.
TheUnspeakableh
Grandfather Nurgle is the respectful way to address him. Papa Nurgle is what his loving family call him.
kahooki
Dada Nurgle <3
TheUnspeakableh
Dada is too close to Daddy, and that's one of Slaanesh's monikers.
trinxter
I want to know how soon all these monster data piles will be obsolescent, and what the hell we are going to do with so much wasted material.
walnutbreath
Leave it to rot for a few decades before saddling state and local governments with the bill while simultaneously giving tax breaks and favorable zoning decisions to the next round of already supremely profitable businesses that will displace even more workers.
Bubbells
Sharpen the edges and put them on sticks. Me thinks the idea will work
nevernotsure
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Jewdakris
Use it to build the pyres to burn the rich on
ipointoutnahtzeesbyreplyingtothem
Look at all the abandoned warehouses and real estate around the US. These buildings will sit and rust and decay for decades while the LLCs that built them evaporate and everybody involved skedaddles with their grifting money.
SecondSince
I suspect the same thing you do with big-box stores that go under. Nothing. Just let the property sit there doing nothing at best.
Bystandr
When someone comes up with a different AI schematic that does way more with less.
jasondeslin
Personally, I'm going to build new gaming PCs for my entire family, and it'll be the best $50 I've ever spent.
Hypothesist
It will not be obsolete probably ever short of some theoretical far future tech that’s super small and hyper efficient… not in any time soon. There is always going to be comput/ai needs. And doing large scale datacenters are the most efficient, economies of scale at work. There may be some point where we have more compute than need , and construction on new vs retrofit/rebuild might swap.. but nah not obsolete
BarnegatLight
I'm sure the warehouses will get reused for concentration camps ...
SlammedCarsAreRuinedCars
There is precedent for this
smellsmiketeenspirit
It's highly unlikely they will ever be obsolescent. AI and data centers are here to stay, think railroads. People have every rights and good reasons to fight building of data centers in their cities/regions, it wrecks havoc on the environment and bring very few benefits (and negligible employment).
walnutbreath
Idk about where you live, but I can think of plenty or now obselete rail lines in my area.
WhoIsFlabbergasted
Distribute the GPUs and RAM to the masses!
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
Malak224
I need to replace my aging 3700x and 2070 Super (founders) but at these prices? Nope.
certainlynotaserialkiller
modern server gear is made specifcally to be unsellable/worthless on the secondhand market.
MeeseOnABeam
surely all those new and fancy nvidia chips will be worth dozens of dollars
Menkhu
E-waste for everyone!
Jimmah1
They use a lot of desktop gpus in these things.
foolkiller333
That's interesting, since most of my stuff that I run is used Enterprise grade gear that I buy used at a huge discount.
Kiares
Same, I refurb and resell on the side for a tiny profit
certainlynotaserialkiller
most server cpus are fused to the board so replacing it with another simply wont work. amd started this "trend" a few years ago. so buying a low end used one and later upgrading it to the most baller cpu it can fit wont work as the cpu is linked to the board. if you look around you will see these popping up in more and more locations.
wigglemywammybar
I’ve been an IT tech for over 20 years and never once seen a server with a cpu fused to the board!