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Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
- fred_is_fred 2mo agoWhat stood out to me was this: "By a 27-5 vote". That number seemed really high, so I looked it up - this isn't a city or a county or some kind of private tax distict - its was the nation's first city-county government. "The Metropolitan Council is the legislative authority of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, the nation’s first, fully consolidated city-county government, established in 1963. The Vice Mayor serves as the president of the Council, which is comprised of 35 district members and five members serving at-large." https://www.nashville.gov/departments/council https://www.nashville.gov/departments/council
- iamdelirium 2mo agoThis isn't true? San Francisco is consolidated in 1856 and according to Wikipedia, a century before Nashville (1963). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#cite_note-Coy_1919_409-19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#cite_note-Coy_19... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee
- phire 2mo agoI think they are claiming it was the first merger of a multiple cities and a county. Rather than something that was originally created a merged county/city (like San Francisco) or a merger where the city/county boundaries were already identical (like Philadelphia and Philadelphia County) Which might be true? But it's a really hyper-specific claim that's far less impressive than it first sounds.
- ProllyInfamous 2mo agoThe craziest thing about Metro Nashville (the city/county entity we are discussing) is that the wealthiest enclaves (independent cities) voted to retain certain city-powers (because of course they did!) – mostly Southern Davidson County, as you approach WilCo/Franklin.
- mixdup 2mo ago>this isn't a city or a county Yes it is, it's both of those things. Consolidated city/county governments are not a weird oddity that no one knows how to handle, they're not super common but they're not governmental arrangements from Neptune, either
- annzabelle 2mo agoComing from the state of Virginia, I might say that they're a perfectly standard way to govern.
- mixdup 2mo agoVA independent cities aren't that, though. They're what they say on the tin: Cities without a county, they're not a nominal county and city both existing on paper but governed as one
- fred_is_fred 2mo agoPerhaps not from Neptune, but they don't exist in any of the 3 states I have lived in - so I was surprised.
- Zafira 2mo ago> [T]he nation’s first, fully consolidated city-county government. This feels really tortured. Their argument is that they can say this because “Metropolitan government is a consolidation of two governments rather than the county taking over the city or the city taking over the county government.” But, multiple cities have consolidated city/county governments. San Francisco is one such example.
- gs17 2mo agoYes, Nashville has a huge number of council members, and it's much better that way. I moved from there to Seattle, and there's 9 council members (7 districts + 2 city-wide) here so we share a representative with a huge area (six times the people and two and a half times the land) and our local concerns have no voice.
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- ajkjk 2mo agoPerhaps you saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 on here yesterday?
- jjpones 2mo agoYes, we should be looking into the wasteful water use in golf courses too.
- HWR_14 2mo ago> water usage despite being less than golf courses, etc Golf courses are a common example of wasteful water use.
- PlasmaPower 2mo agoThen why is no one eminent domaining golf courses? Clearly there are other factors at play here
- asutekku 2mo agoGolf courses do not emit noise, they are relatively nice looking and they are not a threat for people to be unemployed.
- PlasmaPower 2mo agoYeah, those might be some of the other factors. My point is just that actual water use does not explain datacenter pushback well, despite being a predominant argument against them.
- amanaplanacanal 2mo agoI hear electricity prices and noise about as often as water usage.
- mixdup 2mo agoI don't know what DC Blox was going to put in this particular datacenter, but they are a "traditional" colocation datacenter company. Maybe this one would've been superdense GPUs with a jet engine as electrical generator causing all kinds of noise, but it's also just as likely this would've been a project that 5 years ago no one would've batted an eye over, and wouldn't cause any issues in the local neighborhood That's the unfortunate thing about the current climate around datacenters. Everyone hates AI, and Elon absolutely screwed Memphis, and everyone thinks anything with more than 10 computers in it is going to be an xAI monstrosity. There's still a need for growth in just traditional datacenters hosting things like your email and Netflix, not just AI, and those projects are going to get swallowed up in the AI hubbub
- ElevenLathe 2mo agoI wonder if this will incentivize pushing compute back toward the user instead of in big centralized facilities, sonething like a repeat of the PC revolution. Or will it just incentivize harsher treatment of noncompliant parts of the population? Or just pushing these things far from urban areas where they probably should have been already? Probably a bit of each, and some more I'm not thinking of.
- junofan 2mo agoIt’s going to the high frontier. Orbital/lunar. It’s too important not to harden.
- Gigachad 2mo agoThis is an investor scam and not a real proposal.
- no-name-here 2mo ago> the user instead of in big centralized facilities Although that would be exponentially worse in terms of electricity and resource use, etc. - instead 1 TPU handling x,000 customers per month, now you need to build and power n,000 separate devices, where the vast majority of them are idle the vast majority of the time, and even then without all of the more efficient power, batching, etc that DCs offer. > urban areas The photo at the very top of the OP article shows a very low-density area. If someone was expecting to see urban-type density, it isn’t in the location shown in the photo.
- bpodgursky 2mo agoThis is an incredible amount of hysteria over a tiny data center. Genuine pizzagate levels of epistemics here.
- menthe 2mo agoUnfortunately - the widespread propaganda seen around both nuclear power plants and datacenters is ultimately going to cost America everything - the American way of life our child’s will inherit is going to mean something very different than what it meant for us. China controls 90-99% of the rare earths - which are necessary for everything from cars to defense, chips, energy and even construction steel; China controls 70%+ of critical minerals (99% of galium/magnesium, 85% tungsten, etc, etc). China owns the world’s manufacturing - with the associated skilled tradesmen (hard to produce anything fully locally - the experts are retired / passed already). China has abundance of power and energy. China has got both power, energy, and they’ve got the will. China has got the best intelligence models today (as of this month) - which means scientific superiority, increased productivity, and military superiority. What does America have, and what does that mean for our economy in the coming 20-40 years? The reality is that we are in a new race to intelligence and re-industrialization, but we seem to be anti-everything at this point. Nobody wants to hear it, I know I am going to get downvoted to hell with this, but this is ultimately the new reality, and our eternal debating / 4-years cycles vs. life-long strategies in China, is going to cost America everything.
- indoorfish 2mo agoIt's a religious belief that we're going to invent a machine god and our machine god will fight china's machine god.
- r3trohack3r 2mo agoI don't think OP mentioned a machine god?
- GolfPopper 2mo agoOne that just happens to be very convenient for the machine-god peddling billionaires.
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- senor_digimon 2mo agoMy sincere theory is that this is finally the government/politics stepping in to take their cut from the AI revolution. The politicians now have a fee-based strategy where they can literally just stick a fee on any upcoming project(s). Pay up if you ever want your permits to go through and construction to get started.
- DangitBobby 2mo agoThey did it because people didn't want a data center next to the zoo. There was a huge backlash against it, and the locals are very happy that they were listened to, I can promise you. No conspiracy theory necessary.
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- ajkjk 2mo agoIt is probably not that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 posted yesterday explains it well.
- Larrikin 2mo agoYou don't need a conspiracy theory. All these data centers were going up in rural/near rural areas that voted for this, but then the data centers made everyone else's electric bills go up. I was for them and now I'm against them until they pay for their own electricity.
- altcognito 2mo ago> I was for them and now I'm against them until they pay for their own electricity. Exactly my sentiment. I don't even understand how this is controversial. The only ones who don't seem to get it are everyone making the plans (including the folks in government) They're just trying to reduce the risk and lead time to gain an advantage. I'm a huge AI supporter and there's no way to advocate for them. They've just blown all the good will out of the water.
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- sophacles 2mo agoI remember when building more fiber could only be good. An awful lot of it sits in the ground lost, never used because it was the wrong type or in the wrong spots, or otherwise pointless waste. Further, electicity price hikes seems like a bad prospect when inflation is already rampant. If you want a datacenter, offer your house for the space instead.
- otterley 2mo agoWe can generate more electricity, but NIMBY types don't want to approve projects that would add capacity, either.
- sophacles 2mo agoIt's always fun to watch AI zombies wrestle with the idea that sometimes the real humans have different priorities than they do. Usually people are against a lot of those power projects because those very same projects also seem to always raise rates and never deliver the promises of long-term lower rates.
- otterley 2mo agoSuccess doesn’t always look like lower rates, particularly when demand is ever-growing (even when there aren’t new data centers). Success looks like rates not going up faster than inflation, and reliable delivery. I remember well the rolling blackouts in CA in the late 1990s and that sucked. Even the ones in Texas weren’t that long ago. Also, calling well-intended people with whom you disagree “zombies” is inappropriate. Take it elsewhere.
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- j2kun 2mo agoWhat I think is nice is that the political parties opposed to data center development are actually taking concrete steps, exercising specific powers, to advance their goals. So much opposition to tech boils down to whining, and then the tech companies get to do whatever they want anyway. Same complaint applies generally to the democratic establishment. It's nice to see people finally waking up to the reality that opposition has to use its teeth, not just bare them.
- mapping365 2mo agoEminent domain is like the the Thanos snap version of state power in a democratic / capitalist country. The ultimate representation of the peoples will over the individuals desire.
- j2kun 2mo agoNo, this is more like checks and balances: the state, the public, and corporations are kept in check when two of them join together to oppose the third.
- mapping365 2mo agoIt feels like this is the first time I've seen the political system move in tune with the public mood in regards to AI and this is public anger finding expression in public policy.
- chrisweekly 2mo agoIt's kind of strange how the state ("of, by, and for the people") and corporations (comprised of people) are such distinct entities with their own interests. The fact that the state and corporations can and do collude in opposition to the public good is at the heart of so many enormous problems.
- altcognito 2mo ago> will over the individuals desire. If you believe corporations are people. Even billionaires really don't operate as individuals, they are a monster that we've let grow to have unchecked power across the entire federal government. (note, I may be agreeing with what you're saying I just don't agree with the framing of the "individual") Most of the pushback belongs against the entities that are more powerful than even the federal government at times.)
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- amanaplanacanal 2mo agoPeople like their local sports.
- happytoexplain 2mo agoThe implication being that people should like data centers more than sports stadiums...? I don't understand.
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- chrismcb 2mo agoThis doesn't sound like the proper use of eminent domain to me.
- inigyou 2mo agoWay better than all the other uses though.
- happytoexplain 2mo agoRight, it's supposed to be used to take people's homes. /s
- throwaway2037 2mo agoIf anyone is curious, from the photograph in the article, I have geolocated the existing business park property here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kYyHuEWcAZkrypWa7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/kYyHuEWcAZkrypWa7 The whole area is (1) office parks (including large parking lots), (2) warehouses/light manuf'ing/"big box" stores, (3) enormous(!) rail yard (freight trains), (4) the Nashville Zoo. I don't have any skin in this fight, but I think it is a missed opportunity. The two sides should negotiate an agreement that is acceptable to both sides. Example: Can they do a land swap? Can they limit the power draw and noise levels? Can they promise not to generate any power onsite (gas turbines, etc.)? Can they promise to cover the data center roof with solar panels? Can they build higher density (imagine double/triple/quad height data center), but only in the furthest quadrant of land from the zoo, then promise to infill the remaining land with dense forest (or donate it to the zoo)?
- mapping365 2mo agoThis is more a harbinger of what is about to happen all over the country. So the specifics matter less than it marking the political ascendancy of the backlash to AI / data centers / big tech / billionaires...
- eagleinparadise 2mo agoI work in commercial real and even I'm going to go NIMBY mode on this lol. This property shares a large boundary to the zoo and I have a very hard time believing you won't cause an impact (noise pollution eg) to the animals next door. Is there any evidence anywhere of a totally sound proof, unintrusive mega data center? I have not seen anything.
- deepsun 2mo agoIMO noise pollution is the easiest one to solve: just put all the AC fans on the far side of the datacenter. If not enough, surround with noise absorbing panels. If not enough, just get a different fan design, more coolers, and run them at half speed. They can even afford Noctua :) I bet nearby rail yard produces way more loud noises. Datacenter is like the cleanest and most ecofriendly business you can imagine.
- standardUser 2mo agoBig Tech has accumulated too many grievances across too many segments of society and made too much money in the process, so let's not act surprised at a backlash. And data centers are remarkably well-suited as a focal point for people to express those accumulated grievances. So I wouldn't look too hard at all the many and varied reasons that data centers are being opposed, but instead at the quickness and ferocity and consistency with which they are being opposed. It reminds of the movement in the US and Canada in the 90's to oppose unfettered globalization - though this already feels larger and more widespread (and less late to the party).
- welcome_dragon 2mo agoI live in Nashville. This story is all over the place in general. People assume all the things like it will make their rates go up, etc. I'm not opposed to data centers in general but the location is right next to our zoo which has grown tremendously along with the city over the past twenty years. Took my kids there when they were small and we still have a couples membership. It's very difficult even here to get facts about this whole thing, but I'm pretty sure the million dollar an acre price was a factor in the original deal. Now on top of that take a city government who's still recovering from many criticisms from the ice storm earlier this year where people were without power for weeks. The demand for action has been great and very loud. But ... eminent domain to take over the land? That is a terrible precedent to set and very dangerous. Honestly if the politics were on the other side here (say, the state government who claimed eminent domain), it would probably be seen as the terrible thing it is (the state government is incredibly maga but the city is very left).
- silisili 2mo agoAgreed and disagreed. It is a terrible precedent for sure. On the other hand, government inaction, usually hiding behind arcane codes, process, and blame circles gets really frustrating. In that world, they'd still be waiting on a court date(if even) when the data center cuts its ribbon. It's kinda nice to see them just drop the nuclear option on something the people didn't want. At this point, it's kinda nice to see a government accomplish anything nice at all.
- veunes 2mo agoThis sounds like one of those cases where the opposition may be right about the project and still wrong about the mechanism
- ProllyInfamous 2mo agoChattanooga (just hours away) has a DC Blox data center, approximately 50,000sqft (tiny!), located on the southwest corner of Main Street and Center Streets – yet if you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't know it was there. It is entirely surrounded by apartment buildings and smaller retail. I spent most of my IBEW apprenticeship working in data centers of all sizes (5-300,000 sqft), and micro co-location facilities (like DCb's) are entirely different from the likes of the AWSes and cryptomining operations of this world (250,000sqft+). Happy for the zoo exhibits/animals, but this particular co-lo wasn't even among the egregious data center owners. ---- My recommendation to data center planners: small cities have cheaper land, and lots of love/power/cronyism. You may get further by buddying up with the smaller fishes/communities.
- dabinat 2mo agoIn speaking with non-technical friends who are anti-data centers, I get the impression that they only recently discovered what a data center even was and are oblivious to how much they use data centers in their daily lives outside of AI. But I don’t fault them even if they’re misinformed. AI is a big power grab by the wealthy and people feel helpless and are acting in the only way they think they can.
- hiitsmyaccount 2mo agoRegardless of a datacenter being for AI or not, NIMBY applies to everyone. I look forward to these totally probable datacenters in space.
- culi 2mo agoNIMBYs are the reason San Francisco doesn't have massive freeways splitting through the center of it. Sometimes NIMBYs get things right
- wewtyflakes 2mo agoDidn't the Loma Prieta earthquake do that?
- culi 2mo agoNo it was the Freeway Revolt
- wewtyflakes 2mo agoI don't know that those timelines make sense; there were highways going through San Francisco... until the Loma Prieta earthquake; and then suddenly not. A cursory look at what Freeway Revolt was, seems to point to a movement in the 1950-1960's, rather than the early 1990's.
- malixp 2mo agoI wonder if we're heading toward a split where "AI data centers" and traditional cloud infrastructure are treated as completely different categories. Five years ago, a new data center mostly meant more capacity for the internet. Today, many communities seem to assume it means tens of thousands of GPUs, massive power demand, noise, and water usage. AI has clearly changed public perception, but I'm curious how much of the opposition is actually new versus concerns that already existed around land use, noise, and power. For people who work in infrastructure, has the approval process genuinely become harder because of AI, or has AI mainly amplified concerns that were already there?
- veunes 2mo agoThe real issue seems to be that local zoning and utility planning never caught up with the scale of modern data centers. If a project can consume huge amounts of power, generate constant noise, affect a neighboring zoo, those costs should be addressed before the land is sold and hundreds of millions are committed.
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- haunter 2mo agoSame city: >The 60,000-seat stadium is projected to cost $2.1 billion, including $1.26 billion of public money—the largest stadium subsidy in U.S. history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Stadium_(2027) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Stadium_(2027)
- hall0ween 2mo agoAmazing that the new stadium has less capacity too
- adamtaylor_13 2mo agoThey want it to look more full because no one likes watching the Titans suck wind year after year, so the old stadium was laughably empty when the cameras panned over the stands. I'm not joking. This is the reason I heard for them making it smaller.
- JeremyNT 2mo agoNashville politics operate in an extremely narrow window. The local government has a degree of autonomy, but there are unspoken checks on it by a generally hostile state government. Nashville is represented by Democrats while the state is controlled by Republicans. There is an implicit threat that if the city fails to pursue the state's objectives the state will punish it. Recently the city angered the state because it refused to hold the Republican convention. The state retaliated by passing a law to shrink the Nashville city council and another to take control of its airport. The state also took control of the Nashville tourism board that has a slush fund paid for by city taxes. There is a direct line between state reps and local politicians. So for example when state lobbyists were angered at the loss of parking due to a bike lane they called up a council member to have the lane removed. Which is all to say that the stadium deal was ordered by the state and not something the city had a real say in. If the datacenter people go and cozy up to the governor or legislators the state will lean on the city again and they will ram it through as well.
- ThrowawayTestr 2mo agoStadiums actually provide utility to the local community
- jrowen 2mo agoIt blows my mind that (my fellow) Americans are so averse to taxation that they don't even consider that option. Whether you're worried about jobs or faraway tech elites or resource usage....just go straight to the source and use freaking taxes. Blocking is so pointless. All this political will could be a huge opportunity for these locales but instead it's petulant obstructionism. The Millenium Scholarship program in Nevada paid for tons of kids' education by taxing casinos. It's not perfect but it's channeling economic activity to the people.
- pibaker 2mo agoWhy would the data center operators pay extra taxes to your city when they can just build them somewhere else that gives them a tax break instead?
- rkangel 2mo agoBut that's the right lever! That gives the local voting population the ability to decide how much they're willing to put up with data centres. And a state that has excess water and electricity can have tax breaks and then that's where more data centres go.
- happytoexplain 2mo agoI don't understand what you're trying to say - you're describing a win-win. Pay the citizens the price, or don't burden them in the first place. There are two options, and the data center builders may pick either.
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- hackernud3s 2mo agoI think it's ironic that we have no problem putting DCs next to a prison but god forbid we put them next to a zoo which is the same thing but for animals.
- jkahrs595 2mo agoDon’t forget the horrible water usage of data centers! But don’t ask me how much water animal agriculture uses. People love to pretend to care about animals.
- adamtaylor_13 2mo agoPrison is where we put people who have broken laws. A zoo is primarily where we put animals who are incapable of surviving in the wild. It is also a place where the next generation can learn the wonder and beauty of nature. They also tend to work closely with conservation efforts worldwide. So... yeahhh, no. Not at all the same.
- hackernud3s 2mo agoYou're saying it's ok to torture humans with something that's unacceptable for zoo animals provided they broke some laws. That's the part I'm taking issue with.
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- duxup 2mo agoWe’ve been building data centers for many decades without problems. I used to service equipment at some in my area. Many had big chunks of green space around them, very desirable to live near. The current climate around seems very sudden.
- RebeccaTheDev 2mo ago> The current climate around seems very sudden. Is it? Grievances against big tech - over issues like the stupendous amount of money being created for very few, and the damage being inflicted among many other things - have been building for years. Whether you view those complaints as legitimate or not very much depends on your point of view, but the anger is there, it is real, and it is palpable. AI was the tipping point for a lot people, especially younger people. My teenager refuses to use it. Then, Elon Musk went to Memphis and threw gas on the fire, providing a perfect illustration of why people are so upset. Data centers are an avatar right now of all of that because they are a physical manifestation of what people can't otherwise fight.
- duxup 2mo agoYes. I get the background story but the response to a very specific thing seems sudden regardless.
- happytoexplain 2mo agoYou can't think of a single new development in the situation? Sorry to be snide - you can certainly make an argument that the demands of AI should not affect public perception of data centers, but you should simply make that argument, rather than mysteriously omitting any reference to the issue.
- duxup 2mo agoYes, I can, it doesn’t change my observation.
- user00005 2mo agoThere is a medical office building near my house along my walking route. It has a fancy, detached, fully enclosed generator building. When the generators are running the place emits a really high-pitched whine. I can hear it approaching from a couple blocks away. I'm sure my dog and other animals hear it much better than me.
- j16sdiz 2mo ago> high-pitched whine. Does it have to? I meant, it is a very common problem with lots of complain. I bet modern electronic can do it much less noise. Does HN know something in this area?
- stalfosknight 2mo agoI’m surprised that there is no discussion here about the practice of using NDAs to bypass / prevent residents of local communities from learning about data centers about to be built or being able to provide any kind of input via the democratic process before it’s too late and construction has already started. People are royally pissed off by the sheer arrogance of these data center people and Silicon Valley assholes who think they can just impose their will on places.
- bvcp 2mo agothis is why space ai datacenter will scale faster than people expect
- nenxk 2mo agoI understand location is important for web/traditional data centers but why do they put these AI centers so close to people? Could they not put them somewhere far away like maybe in the middle some Nebraska farmland where it's just miles and miles of corn everywhere or the desert? I guess water would be an issue but it's closed loop no? Couldn't they just truck in the water and re use it or something?
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