From: DB@cocks.net   
      
   I'm rooting for the people in this Alabama town as they fight to   
   maintain their way of life.   
      
   https://unherd.com/2025/08/the-small-town-alabamians-resisting-a-data-centre/   
      
   In McCalla, Alabama, out where the Appalachian foothills yawn and   
   stretch before coming to rest further south in fields of ripening   
   cotton, there’s a lake where David Havron used to swim. He was little   
   more than a boy then, topping the crests in his red Chevrolet with his   
   dog riding shotgun beside him. A few years back, David bought a house   
   not far from the place. “It just felt to me like ‘this is home’,” he   
   says. Now in his 70s, David has the sinewy look of a man who has not   
   known much idle time. Yet standing with him in his yard, it’s not hard   
   to imagine him in his younger days: on a certain kind of morning, when   
   the Dog Star is rising and the sun is restless in the Southern sky, you   
   can almost see him out there on the lake — a skinny kid gazing up at   
   Longleaf pine trees, his dog paddling in the near distance.   
      
   David is a collector of things. In the office of his white-brick house,   
   there are shelves lined with hand-crank pencil sharpeners, Second World   
   War relics, and all sorts of ephemera. In recent months, however, David   
   has become a collector of a different sort. He’s become a collector of   
   concerns. He’s among the hundreds of residents within striking distance   
   of the proposed site of the Bessemer Hyperscale Data Center, also known   
   as “Project Marvel”. Backed by developer Logistics Land Investment LLC,   
   the $14.5 billion project’s campus includes nearly 700 wooded acres near   
   a smattering of houses and two residential neighbourhoods — Rock   
   Mountain Lakes and Red Mountain Heights. As it stands, the development   
   is projected to include 18 data centre buildings, each approximately   
   250,000 sq. ft., on roughly 100 acres of clear-cut land. If the project   
   advances, it will be one of the largest hyperscale data centres in the   
   United States.   
      
   Residents are worried about what the resource-hungry facility might do   
   to their rural community. As president of the Rock Mountain Lakes   
   Landowner’s Association, David’s been getting a lot of calls about it.   
   “We’re talking about people’s lives here,” he says, “and this is just   
   not right.” McCalla is close-knit. Red Mountain Heights is what locals   
   call a “legacy” community. That is, a community of families who’ve lived   
   on the same land, often in the same houses, for generations. It’s a   
   point of pride for those who live there. It demands respect from those   
   who don’t.   
      
   Story continues at link:   
      
   https://unherd.com/2025/08/the-small-town-alabamians-resisting-a-data-centre/   
   --   
   First we will destroy your identity. Then we will teach you your past   
   was evil. You will conclude yourself that your inheritance, your   
   homeland, your ancestors and your people are underserving of it all.   
   Then we will complete your dispossession and dissolve you into the final   
   phase of the Kalergi Plan.   
      
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