Massive data center proposals are often developed in secret. Wisconsin has now joined several states with legislative proposals to make the process more transparent.
  • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
    26·
    19 hours ago

    So are citizens in on it? Or is this yet another case of politicians selling out their communities?

    Either way, I’m awed by the tenacity to follow money straight into hell.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    16 hours ago

    I’ve heard this story from Wisconsin before. Let’s see if this feels familiar: a community leader makes unilateral choices about how the community resources are spent. Contracts signed in secret make it all binding. “It’s about progress/prosperity/the future of this community” speech by the leader who is being assaulted by the community for not including them in this decision.

    The community now has to live with the burden placed on them by others. The big corporation eventually backs out and the community is destroyed, left to rebuild with only the resources available to maintain so slowly the community withers and dies.

    Never change Wisconsin.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago

    This should be disqualifying for any elected official. Regardless of party or other ideology, the most basic function of an elected official is to serve the public who elected them transparently.