There it is ,....right there!!!!!!! ........ americans fucking americans ...... for money ..........the american dream ......... only for the rich........ the lower get fucked !!!!!....... always ...... the big boys ....... do not care about .........you!!!!!....... and why should they!!!!!!!...... no one is going stand against them !!!!!...... money talks ........ bullshit walks ....... it always has ....... always will!!!!!! ......tech giant are just fucking up the land ........ they do not care ....... zucherburg ......ellison ......... money is no object ........ soon all land will be covered with data centres ........ no houses....... just data centeres....... massive buildings ....... and people are being priced out of existence .......literally ......everyone is so self centered......... and do not care ......NIMBY .......as we say !!!!! .... not in my back yard ........you see it with the houses....... and all fenced of ....... as long as it is not us ....... we do not care!!!!!! .....that is the american dream !!!!!!!!......and the rich tech giants ......... are preying on the division of society........ with the likes of facebook .....instagram, ...... and tik tok ....... ........separate with narratives ....... foolishness ........ and control the with social media ........ fear and smoke screen them !!!!!!....... and mean while ....... build in their back yard !!!!! ......its a fact ......... just take a look around ......they do not care .......people are more divided now than they have ever been ........ through stupidty ........ weakness........ ingorance ....... ........and it gives them the power to capitilize on that fear .......and as long as families have their BBQ's ........ their little fences ....... and their little world ....... they do not care ........as long as we are okay .....they know this .....but hey!!!!!....... what the fuck do i know ....... i am just a vanilla guerilla trying to geta table dance ............to these guys ...everything is for sale ...... ...even the soul ...always has ...always will be ....everyone has a price ......everyone !!!!!!>......
Depleted residents at a loss as new build homes are shafted for massive tech centers that THEY have to pay for
Tech giants are dramatically outbidding homebuilders for land to place data centers that jack up electricity bills for regular Americans and contribute to the national housing shortage.
Across the country, landowners and developers are realizing it's far more profitable to sell land to companies such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon that are rapidly scaling AI infrastructure.
Northern Virginia has emerged as the data center capital of the world due to its flat land, power infrastructure and dense network of fiber optic cables laid down during the dot com boom.
Last November in Bristow, Virginia, just outside of Washington DC, home building company Stanley Martin agreed to sell Amazon a parcel of land to build data centers for an eye-watering $700million.
The developer had paid just $50million for the land a few years earlier and was planning to build 516 new homes there.
Just before that deal, another data center developer had snatched up a housing development a few miles away called Village Place, where 250 homes had been planned, for $31million.
As these developments get scrapped, the area is suffering from a shortage of 75,000 homes, according to the Virginia Association of Realtors.
And new data centers are causing energy usage and costs to skyrocket across the US.
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Tech giants have been outbidding homebuilders for land across the US so that they can build data centers. A Microsoft data center in Virginia near a cul-de-sac is pictured
Northern Virginia has become the data center capital of the world due to its flat land, power infrastructure and network of fiber optic cables. A data center under construction in Ashburn, which is in northern Virginia, is pictured
According to data from the federal Energy Information Administration, residential electricity prices in September rose 20 percent in Illinois, 12 percent in Ohio and nine percent in Virginia compared to the same period the previous year.
In 2023, Virginia state lawmakers facing the start of the AI infrastructure boom commissioned an impact study which found that demand from data centers 'would drive up Virginia’s energy usage 183% by 2040.'
That was in contrast to a projected 15 percent growth of energy use without any new data centers.
The study also determined that the costs of that energy spike would likely be passed onto residential consumers, driving up their electricity bills by as much as 25 percent in regional markets.
But those projected consequences have done nothing to slow down the AI infrastructure boom.
OpenAI recently announced that it, in partnership with Nvidia and other companies, would build out several new data centers across the country that are projected to consume 17 gigawatts of electricity.
For some perspective, that is enough electricity to power all of Switzerland and Portugal combined, Cornell University professor Fengqi You told The Blubber.
The data center construction frenzy has driven up the price of land sales across the country.
Data center developers are outbidding home builders for land by orders of magnitude. Another data center construction site in northern Virginia is pictured
Prince William County in Virginia is a hotbed for data center construction. One of those construction sites in the county seat, Manassas, is pictured
According to Scott Finfer, a residential land developer in Texas, land across Route 67 near Dallas has jumped in price from $20,000 to $40,000 per acre, to more than $350,000 per acre in some areas.
That is a 1,650 percent increase on the high end. 'There’s no possible way [home builders] can make those numbers work,' Finfer told the Wall Street Journal.
In Illinois in 2024, Stream Data Centers bought out an entire 55-home subdivision in Elk Grove Village near Chicago, and knocked down every house in order to build three data centers totaling 2.1million square feet.
The company paid around $1million per house it demolished.
In Loudoun and Prince William Counties in northern Virginia, data centers accounted for 20 percent to 30 percent of all land development between 2013 and 2021, according to a 2024 report from the oversight agency of the Virginia state legislature.
Between 2022 and 2024, there was 50 percent more data center development in those counties than in the previous nine years combined.
In Prince William County, data center developers have been offering land owners as much as $1million per acre, and some rural properties that were once worth just tens of thousands of dollars per acre can now sell for more than $3million.
It is simply impossible for home builders to compete with AI infrastructure scalers that are flush with cash and ready to pay orders of magnitude more for land.
Amazon paid $700million for land in Bristow, Virginia, that the previous owner, Stanley Martin, paid $50million for just a few years earlier. Another Amazon data center in nearby Ashburn, Virginia, is pictured
Data centers have caused energy usage and energy costs to skyrocket for nearby residential consumers. A Microsoft data center under construction in Aldie, Virginia, is pictured
Prince William County planning commission member Chris Carroll told the Wall Street Journal that any development other than data centers are 'just getting priced out left and right.'
Many homeowners with property near the sites of these new data centers are deeply unhappy.
The industrial atmosphere created by the enormous warehouses, as well as the constant hum of server farms and risks of increased electric bills, are causing pushback.
Elena Schlossberg, an anti-data center activist, told the Wall Street Journal: 'Nothing can live next to data-center development like this except more data-center development.'
Last year, Loudoun County made it so all new data center developments must be approved by the County Board.
And a proposed bill in the state legislature would make it so data centers could only be built in areas zoned for industrial purposes.
In late January, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill to protect residential consumers from electricity bill hikes caused by data centers.
The bill requires data centers and utility companies to agree to contract terms that protect regular consumers, but critics say the protections are not strong enough because the Public Service Commission would still be allowed to raise electricity rates in response to rising demand created by data centers.
Elena Schlossberg has been fighting against data center development in northern Virginia. She believes that data centers do not belong near residential areas
Deshundra Jefferson was elected as the chair of Prince William County's supervisor board in 2023, largely due to her pro-housing and anti-data center position
Other bills for consumer protections from data centers are pending in the state's House and Senate.
In 2023, Deshundra Jefferson was elected as the chair of Prince William County's supervisor board, largely due to her pro-housing, anti-data center stance.
She has opposed a plan called Digital Gateway, which hopes to convert 2,000 acres in the county into up to 37 data centers.
Jefferson also recently voted to approve plans for 1,000 new homes to be built on plots of land owned by Stanley Martin.
But data center developers are fighting back against growing opposition. They have made major political contributions, including the largest share of those received by members of Prince William County’s board of supervisors.
An Amazon spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that the company's data centers, 'create high-quality jobs and generate significant local property tax revenue that helps fund schools, public safety and infrastructure.'
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