Note, this post is from 10 days ago and it consists of an opinion piece in a newspaper concerning a familiar event from recent days - though before someone was arrested for clapping.
The article is very revealing:
The sales pitch for what could be the state’s largest data center is built on a hyperscale whopper.
In sworn testimony from a federal bankruptcy proceeding, Gary Pinkston, the businessman touted as the developer of the proposed “Flint Hills Digital Campus” at Emporia, said he wasn’t familiar with the project.
Come again?
“I have no interest at all in that project,” Pinkston said under oath last month in reply to a question about the Emporia data center.
Pinkston has been the folksy plaid-shirt-and-jeans ambassador for the hyperscale project since shortly after its announcement last month. The scheme aims to transform 1,000 mostly rural acres on the west edge of Emporia into a data center complex that might eventually attract billions of dollars in investment. Mentally stress “might” in that sentence, because not enough information in the project has been released to judge its chances of success.
In other Lemmy posts, you likely already heard about the Emporia High School physics teacher, Lux Claridge, who was arrested for clapping in support of comments made by critics of the data center project at a city meeting.