>The artificial intelligence boom in the United States is being matched by a data center building boom. There are more than 3,000 data centers in the U.S. and another 1,500 in development>While President Donald Trump has promoted AI advancement, calling it crucial to economic and national security, polling shows that 7 in 10 Americans oppose the construction of AI data centers in their communities>Where private citizens refuse to sell their land, companies are turning to eminent domain, the government’s inherent power to seize private property without a landowner’s consent. But does a line built to serve a private data center qualify?well?https://theconversation.com/when-can-a-power-company-take-your-land-for-data-center-infrastructure-284061https://archive.is/yyUZ7
>>539236917Bump... I think they already did in a place called Utah they just told a bunch of people that if they don't find their own power in a couple of years it's too bad for them.
>>539236917It says right there, eminent domain. They can do it so long as the government says they can.
>corporations have no standing with the living
>>539237053which is bullshit.they used the eminent domain clause in Hurst Texas to demolish houses to expand a shopping malls parking lot.
