The world is on fire and these clowns are completely fine with dumping a good portion of France's GHG emissions back into the atmosphere if it means we can turn a few more millionaires into billionaires.
In Lansing's case as he mentioned the power is already being generated and sold to other utilities. If it powered local data centers instead it would generate high paying jobs and rather large tax revenues.
"Greenhouse gas"
I'd love to import a couple of high paid weirdos from out of town to build a data center for a year and then jet off to some other poor community to do it all over again. At least a couple of the locals can work as janitors and night security at the empty, shrieking warehouse that they erect.
Travis makes a strong argument that the city that birthed Oldsmobile and REO Motors would probably reject those companies today if they wanted to build there.
rmason•1h ago
I am saddened that the industry hasn't spoken out and let the opponents define the debate.
Jtsummers•8m ago
Insisting on NDAs with the municipal leadership involved in approving the deals was a choice by the industry. This created the opportunity for their opponents to set the narrative. This was not a surprising outcome to anyone, and no one is going to cry for the execs without sufficient sense to foresee this result.