A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project's approval.
  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    73·
    8 days ago

    Wow, congrats on completely missing the point. The point isn’t how many people are in the arbitrary town boundaries. It’s that the town is basically a close suburb of a major city.

    Beverly Hills only has a population of 32k, but let’s call that a small town and completely ignore that it’s fully surrounded by 12 million people.

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      23·
      8 days ago

      I’m not sure I understand your point. Do the other cities around share in the burdens of having the data center there? Are they sharing the consequences to water, electricity, and pollution equally? Tax burdens and the like as well? If not, why should it matter who the neighbors are? If so why are they even separated in the first place?

      • Zoot@reddthat.com
        3·
        8 days ago

        Actually yes, the towns do indeed share. They get massive amounts more tax revenue from the added business of the surrounding major city.

        If this was a rural podunk town with a population of 13k then you could call it a small town, as it wouldn’t have the supporting infrastructure around it to sustain what a city like OP posted could.