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Posted on 06/03/2026 11:59:49 PM PDT by thecodont
Monterey Park voters made history Tuesday by passing the first permanent ban on data centers nationwide.
Voters are on track to overwhelmingly approve the ban, with 86% in favor according to the latest ballot count, leading organizers to claim victory (the official results won’t be certified until July 10). Where other jurisdictions have passed temporary measures to curb the controversial development of these massive server farms, Monterey Park voters’ decision in this election will keep developers at bay unless voters want to revisit the decision in a future election.
“It really goes to show the power of community,” Monterey Park Mayor Elizabeth Lee told SFGATE. “We had sufficient community support and community members that were willing to come out to be civilly engaged and speak up.”
For residents and organizers of the Los Angeles suburb in the San Gabriel Valley, the vote puts a definitive end to a fight to stave off construction of a massive data center between a residential neighborhood and Highway 60.
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But the regional fight against these types of facilities is nowhere over, and it’s just beginning nationwide. Residents living near proposed data centers have continued to voice concerns about these facilities hijacking their water supply and polluting the environment. In the global race to develop increasingly more powerful artificial intelligence, local communities are being caught in the crosshairs of an equally fast race to build the infrastructure needed to support the technology — and they’re not happy about it. A March Gallup poll shows a significant majority of Americans oppose data center development near their homes.
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No surprise. Home to many Chinese CCP transplants allowed to flood California since the 1990’s
Elon Musk is taking them to low earth orbit. No rise in electric prices, no lowering of the water table or rise in river temperatures, or community stress levels. I personally think AI is ok, but it misses the nuance of a humans mood. Some days i will shrug it off, next day I’ll call you out. AI can’t do that. No emotions seems at odds with humans to me. Data good/no emotion not. IMO
Love Elon and others who think outside of the box.
There is a community in Texas with a data center nearby, and now it’s daylight 24/7. Then you have that noise they make.
If only there was cheap, clean, energy to power the needs of California citizens (three nuclear power plants?)
If only there was responsible water management for Californians (stop destroying dams - save the farmers and ranchers)
If only California allowed desalinization plants in the Pacific Ocean with low-cost electricity (export clean water to the world after taking care of citizens’ needs)
If only California started pumping the bountiful oil and gas again (jobs from top to bottom)
If only we could wrestle control of California away from the communists and apparatchiks.
No. Better to make CA into a Coventry and ship all the insane there.
I hope he gets it done. I like my well, my electric bill is high enough, and we need the space for crops, fish, and quiet for old folks like me. Those data center are noisy. Only noise I want to hear is an old freight train passing occasionally. Old train white noise puts me to sleep as fast as rain on a tin roof. The roar of a jet wakes me up. Trains and rain, forget about it. Elon will get it done. It’ll get there full and fast, but it ain’t gonna get there free.
I make a lot of use of AI, but if I want an electronic brain I'd prefer to have it in the corner of my bedroom and turned off until needed.
Love it! I remember my hubbie hating the noise of the streets and the freeway near our home. We use to take a few more zzzz’s in the early morning hours before traffic amplified noise. It was nice and the breeze from the coast was an extra blessing.
True story. There’s no quiet like country quiet. Hot humid nights, lightning bugs, katydids, bull frogs, whiporwils , rain and trains. It becomes so background you don’t miss it till it’s not there. These data centers use up water power and make more noise that aggravates you it’s not what you want next to you. I think Musk taking the data systems to orbit is a good idea. I don’t want one in the Rockies where I live. I grew up in northwest Missouri. One on the Missouri River would piss me off. That’s just me.
Geographic areas that ban data centers should be charged an extra premium for data services.
That is a disgusting idea. Maybe they can put a data center in your backyard.
Why so idiots like you can force communities to screw up their location , while you sit on your ass letting AI take your college test? FU. Put it in your backyard beotch.
Wow! Quicker than me. I bow to superior speed. 👌
better idea: california ships all the illegals out and all the people who moved into california in the last 25 years, meaning 99% of all leftists in california are gone. we then move all the illegals into texas and build a wall around texas, meaning the two official languages of texas at that point will be spanish in addition to hindi LOL LOL LOL
Why Texas? You ain’t from here are you. Get out and take the rest of the camel riders with you. Texas is closed.
A local California community banning data centers nationwide? Has the community taken over the federal government? Fine if they want to ban them in their community, but Utah or Iowa or Podunk may want to have a say in what is banned in their own jurisdictions.
There have been several computer simulations in the last few years that suggest Low Earth Orbit could become a high tech suicide zone.
If a large satellite blows apart, a high speed shrapnel storm can metastasize into a satellite killer across the entire orbit.
Have a say. Then shut up.
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