They are building an AI Data Center in Appalachia...

[kentuck]

It is near the graveyard where my Mom, Brother, Sister, and most of my family are buried. It is where I went to school for the first two weeks of elementary. It was once a thriving coal camp where my relatives worked. Now they have started leveling the mountain and no one can stop them.

This is deep in the heart of the mountains, away from most big city reporting, and is creating quite a controversy. Just when they were starting to recover from all the strip mining.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/1375988117208865/posts/1546034126870929/

[underpants]

1. Then the coal company came with the world's biggest shovel....wrote it all down as the progress of man

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn

[Chorus]
And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County?
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

[Chorus]
And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County?
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[Verse 3]
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

[Chorus]
And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County?
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

[Verse 4]
When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am

[AZJonnie]

4. Fixing it for ya

~ John Prine

[underpants]

5. "Mr. Peabody's Coaltrain"

The first time I heard Prine was on Austin City Limits singing that song. I’ve been a fan since.

[dalton99a]

2. The corruption is disgusting.

[kentuck]

6. It is within a mile from the Kentucky Utilities plant at Four Mile, KY.

So they are close to the power. And about the same distance from the Cumberland River.

[Initech]

3. The people who got rich off crypto are now selling the data centers.

Fuck them all.