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This is Missouri. The Show Me State. And they mean it.
About 40 people gathered in Springfield to show their opposition to unregulated data centers. Many of the protesters said they are not against progress or innovation. They said they want to know more about the environmental impact data centers could have. Protesters also said they want state leaders to be transparent about the economic benefits.
Forty people at a street corner in Springfield on a Tuesday morning. Not a lot by some measures. By Ozarks measures, that is a movement.
“Show us where it’s going to bring in all of this stuff and not just for the rich,” said protester Jerusha Healing. “Show us how it’s going to help all of these rural communities, how it’s going to help the working man. Show us how these data centers are going to help. Basically, put your money where your mouth is.”
That is not radical. That is a reasonable question. Where does the money go. Who benefits. Show the math. Prove it.
They cannot prove it. Because the math does not work for the working man. It never did.
Roughly 100 Missourians gathered near the state capitol to rally against data centers preceding a data center summit that was limited to members of industry associations. The public was not allowed to participate.
They held a summit about data centers and did not let the public in. In Missouri. The Show Me State. Where a farmer named Tim Schaefer was brought to tears describing what a proposed data center would do to his land.
“In southwest Missouri, we have been on the verge of drought for many years,” said KJ McDonald of Joplin. “We’ve actually just barely moved out of the fear of drought recently.”
Drought country. And they want to build a machine that drinks millions of gallons of water a year.
Show us how that helps the working man.
This is Cricketpocalypse.
