I just saw a video from a local news channel about a different patch of land in Georgia where Georgia Power was given an easement across a bunch of people's land, essentially cutting these people's property in half, then they clear cut the forest at the back of their properties and installed some giant transmission line towers also to power datacenters. One young couple interviewed had just bought their property and were planning on using the land to grow food but now they can't and they also can't sell because only half their property is usable despite them having paid for the entire plot.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2026
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I believe they can sue though. Might depend on the law there but I was literally just watching a video of a lawyer going over what to do if your property is seized and or used in violation of your right to enjoy your property and there's an avenue for land owners to sue.
Seen similar videos the people are fucked.
Lucifer! No compensation for that?!
They need to sue right away, eminent domain without compensation is a violation of the Fifth Amendment.
I'm sure some young couple in rural Georgia that just made the biggest purchase of their entire life will jump right on that. I'm sure they've got a huge reserve fund for legal expenses set aside. /s
Land of the free
It means the people are for free, they are worth nothing.
soon be land of enslaved by AI
Came to post EXACTLY that. 🤣 👍
Well, datacenters are pretty much Eminent Domaining people then.
Don't need to power a data center if it's burnt to the ground.
Damn, Georgia too? I thought this was mainly a US American thing at this point.
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Remember that feelings of compassion should be contingent on the question: "Who do you vote for?"
Do you deprive these people of your compassion because you think they are evil? Because I sincerely don't believe in evil. I believe in stupidity, folly, shortsightedness... and the people affected by them do have my compassion and my empathy.
Also, given what you said I'd bet you voted for a billionaire-friendly, genocide supporter, fucking cop. So you, in that case, too have my compassion and empathy.
It’s deranged to create a class of people that it’s okay to steal houses from and pollute the place they live no matter how they voted, actually
Straught-up. I really don't care who these people voted for. If they're pissed that datacenters are stealing their family home, that's actually a perfect opportunity to win right-wing votes that doesn't compromise values. At the minimum, It's an opportunity to fight back against big tech and data centers. Punishing them for who they presumably voted for is deranged on multiple levels, but unfortunately normalized among liberals.
Liberals will insist on adopting centrist and right wing policies in the hope of winning over jetski dads in the suburbs. They'll do anything they can to win over these voters. They do it every election. It leads to a cynicism among voters that nothing can ever change for the better (and they're fucking right). So people stay home or vote for someone else. The jetski dads predictably vote for the most fascist politician possible, because that's what they want. They don't want fascism lite, they want fascism done right. The centrist eats shit and blames the left (who often work tirelessly to elect their dumbass as a harm reduction measure, but whatever).
Then, when the Republican wins and starts doing Republican shit, liberals offer only condascending quips about a process that never works out for people. They insist that suffering is payment to them from the poorest and least educated people in the USA for not playing their little game correctly. And in the same fucking breath, they'll propose more dead-end centrist garbage to the same jetski dads as last time.
Stop conceding to the right. Run on populist left policies that improve the material lives of everyone, and you'll naturally win over voters. That includes saving rural Georgian families from data centers even if they don't like you or vote for you. If you do enough for them you will eventually win them over. Fighting data centers is a net win for environmentalism and labor.
It’s wrong to steal people’s houses and to pollute the place they live, no matter who they voted for.
But I’ll be damned if I shed a single tear if these people happily voted in the regime which brazenly supports stealing people’s houses and polluting where they live.
You can still empathize with people who were uninformed and subsequently exploited / harmed.
Giving into the “me vs them” team mentality is giving the oligarchs exactly what they want: divide and conquer.
They were informed. They were warned. They were told about “project 2025” and how bad it would be. They’ve been through one trump presidency. They knew what they signed up for.
My stance on trump voters:
If you voted for him the first time, you made a foolish/uninformed decision. But forgivable.
If you voted for him the second time, you’re a dumb person and I don’t trust you.
If you voted for him this third time, after the insurrection, after how horrible he has proven to be, fuck you. You’re evil. No pity from me.
everything is "deranged" in this country, to be frank
I doubt who you voted for would have stopped this. AI is the new .com / housing bubble that every big company has to jump on board for.