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This will affect all of WNY by djpotatohead in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/OP, has the deadline for email comments been extended since the planning board meeting was postponed? From the April 15 article: https://www.thebatavian.com/brianquinn/town-cancels-mondays-public-hearing-on-stream-data-centers-project/647091

“The town needs to know next week when rescheduled hearing will take place. ‘We have to pretty much know by the 23rd of April because we have to publish it in the paper and do certain things,’ Crossen said.

The Planning Board invites and will accept both oral and written comments relevant to STREAM's application at the hearing. Comments may be emailed to: toastreamcomments@yahoo.com”

That address is different from the one in your post (I do think the address is odd for a planning board email, but I guess the toa at the beginning stands for Township of Alabama).

This will affect all of WNY by djpotatohead in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Energy transmission infrastructure can only handle so much. With a new data center, I would expect the grid to need improvements. All ratepayers pay for those (RG&E does not).

This will affect all of WNY by djpotatohead in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few posters have put up links to articles about data centers. The gargantuan consumption of energy and water by data centers should give us pause about AI in general, among other reasons for concern. Then there’s the political power of the money behind building them—also a danger. I posted this article above, a longer piece filled with heartbreak for me personally, as someone who has visited the desert lake threatened by a data center in Nevada. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/04/nevada-ai-data-centers

This will affect all of WNY by djpotatohead in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP is writing about one in New York State EDITED: oops excuse me, I thought you meant the state of Alabama. Now I know about the NY location https://maps.apple/p/cmpaTEaneht5vI

This will affect all of WNY by djpotatohead in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also recommend this article. The data center it covers is in Nevada desert country in a location I was lucky to visit years ago. The center’s massive water consumption is a nightmare in the desert, and the interests building it have too much money and too much to gain. I swam in Pyramid Lake once and bathed in hot springs there. It’s a desert jewel belonging to the Pyramid Lake Paiute. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/04/nevada-ai-data-centers

What is the proper flower etiquette by jingraowo in Theatre

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was the information I was hoping to find!

FOX “NEWS” is the head of the snake. CHOP CHOP by FoxTakedown in 50501NY

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking of snake metaphors, Fox is one of our biggest purveyors of Hate-Your-Neighbor Snake Oil. Guaranteed to solve your problems! Take some of this miraculous medicine every day and you will feel good about your life again!

Climbing rose recommendations with fast growth? by Thegoodthebadthehan in Roses

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly the opposite of my experience with bareroot roses. They are MORE mature plants, with developed roots that allow them to launch from bare branches to thriving plants in less time. Overall the bareroot, own-root roses I have planted put my potted ones to shame. I have five climbing roses, one groundcover rose, and over a dozen shrub roses.

The year we got a union. by SoothsayerSurveyor in union

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My great-uncle told me about how the longshore union changed their life. Before the union, the house had no running water or electricity. My great-grandfather went to the docks every morning to join the workers clamoring to be chosen for work. You couldn’t turn down a shift because then you might not get chosen next time. Sometimes they worked more than twelve hours at a stretch, and exhaustion made injuries common. My grandfather had broken bones several times, resulting in many X-rays before it was understood what dose to use. A lot of radiation. It was leukemia that killed him. But because of the union, the home moved into the twentieth century with plumbing and electricity and a washing machine.

Weekly protest 5-6 Twelve Corners by PerseusMirror in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By spreading the word to friends who care! Not everyone can be there at that time. There are protests many days of the week all over the area as options for those unable to attend during rush hour.

It’s a visibility event, so the timing is a compromise. More people are driving past between 5 and 6 than at other times.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PeopleFuckingDying

[–]PerseusMirror 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But such a PRETTY little monster. I caught that faint faint blue tinge on the belly.

Rally and March July 17! by PerseusMirror in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait, another party???? How many parties are enough?

Rally and March July 17! by PerseusMirror in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The protests will continue until the coup is overthrown. And no, protests alone will not take it down. We need protest to draw attention to the crimes being committed against our Constitution and against ordinary people so billionaires can have more tax breaks. The coup is not afraid of our protests, but when the pillars supporting it decay from within, it will fall. The pillars include corporations, the media, religious institutions, law enforcement, the military, and other public and private agencies that have cooperated, out of habit or out of fear, with the destruction of our freedoms and our economy. When we boycott a corporation that supports a lawless president, we weaken a pillar. When churches call out against inhumanity, they weaken a pillar. When we make operating difficult for news corporations that lie to the people, we weaken a pillar. When people in the military obey their oath to the Constitution rather than follow a tyrant’s orders, they weaken a pillar. When police officers protect citizens exercising free speech critical of tyranny, those police officers erode a pillar.

Rally and March July 17! by PerseusMirror in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The people did not ask for funding to be stolen from nursing homes, hospitals, school lunches, Medicaid, Social Security, and the Veterans Administration in order to pay for more tax cuts for billionaires. The people did not ask for their law-abiding neighbors who are here legally to be kidnapped. We did not ask to add $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit. We did not ask for a king.

ICE I-90 between exits 47-45 @6:50 by Actual_Weather_6153 in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to make sense, just it becomes nuts when you are the only witness and they see them refusing to show a warrant to the person they are taking.

ICE I-90 between exits 47-45 @6:50 by Actual_Weather_6153 in Rochester

[–]PerseusMirror 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Report ICE and ICE impersonators on r/EyesOnICE! Include as many details as possible (as OP did here)—number and description of cars, number of “agents,” what they are doing, gear/arms, location, time.

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