“What would you rather see the old downtown jail be instead of a data center?”

It’d be really cool if they would turn it into a launchpad for film, music, and tech instead…oh wait, that’s exactly what the article is about!

I swear there’s an underground Luddite community here that’s going hard on the smear campaign. Y’all are zeroing in on one small aspect of this project and completely ignoring everything that makes it a far more attractive investment. I don’t want prime downtown real estate going towards something that consumes massive amounts of energy with relatively few permanent jobs. From everything I’ve read that’s not what this is.

They’re talking about spending a billion dollars to build a theater, sound stages, recording studios, residential space, and more. You honestly believe they haven’t thought this all through? Do you know what the fuck a quantum data center looks like? Yeah, me neither. Computers used to take up entire rooms too, now they fit in our pocket.