Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping
The meeting in Emporia, Kansas concerned zoning to enable the construction of the Flint Hills Digital Campus data center, a proposed “gigawatt-scale” facility. Let’s get this out of the way: the teacher in question, 37-year-old Lux Claridge, was warned. The whole room was warned before this happened—warned not to clap, which is an expression of approval.
- ▪The meeting in Emporia, Kansas concerned zoning to enable the construction of the Flint Hills Digital Campus data center, a proposed “gigawatt-scale” facility.
- ▪Let’s get this out of the way: the teacher in question, 37-year-old Lux Claridge, was warned.
- ▪The whole room was warned before this happened—warned not to clap, which is an expression of approval.
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If you’re thinking of attending any sort of public meeting about, say, zoning changes in and around your community that enable the building of data centers, here’s something to keep in mind: a school teacher has now been carried out of one such meeting and booked in jail for clapping after someone else’s speech.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000791608","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence,tech","TAGS":"artificial-intelligence,data-center-backlash,data-centers","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); “I think…
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