Inside the bitter fight over California's biggest AI datacenter

What BBN said about it

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentSebastian Rucci zoomed in on a map in late twenty twenty-four and found a block of brown earth between alfalfa fields and desert suburbs.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHe wants the biggest AI datacenter in California there, and rural Imperial is fighting him.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the future of intelligence was picked by a guy pinching and zooming on a picture of dirt.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's the same research I do for a pizza place.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHe promised thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue. The locals heard that and started a firestorm.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDirt. The dirt had no say in it.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI covered land disputes for twenty years, and every one started with somebody saying nobody was using it. Hashtag pinchandzoom.