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These data centers are going to be really bad. There seems to be a lot of them, too.

So, IndyStar has a new article out about these data centers. And this is another example. And I see this all

the time in local government where people would get fascinated government, not people,

governments would get fascinated with how big the bright, shiny object can be

and the number behind that object and then get it in their mind,

we have to make that thing happen without factoring in the long-term ramification of what you're about to do.

Mm-hmm.

Because so often government is driven by dollar signs rather than a collective, a benefit of the collective.

Mm-hmm.

And so what I mean by this is you're seeing where these data centers are going.

And you see Indy Star has a list of the proposed areas

on the map, Greenfield, Lebanon, Monrovia, Pittsburgh.

And you're talking in the case of a data center, you're talking hundreds and hundreds

of acres of farmland necessary to facilitate the needs of that entity, we'll call it for lack

of a better term.

And if you think about a data, like a lot of people don't realize with the data center,

unlike a warehouse, there's not all these people there.

The building is the thing.

They build this giant monstrosity.

It largely runs unmanned.

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