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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Iran government abandoning Tehran
Date: 11/20/25 7:16 PM
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The city of Detroit has finished tearing down about 90% of the old Packard factory. That parcel, has industrial scale infrastructure already in place. Why the heck doesn't someone put a data center there? Oh, I know. The data center developers think they can get the local taxpayers to pay for the infrastructure their data centers need, for them.

Because data centers can require up to 100MW(!) of power generation; that Packard facility was built in ~1908 and went offline in 1958. It's highly unlikely that the surrounding area wouldn't require the same upgrades that a rural region would, too.

Plus for security reasons a lot of data centers tend to be located in the middle of nowhere. You can see where Google parks theirs:
datacenters.google: Locations of Google Data Centers

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