#Google paid a city government in #Oregon to unsuccessfully try to keep its data center #water usage secret.
🚨 Today the numbers have been revealed, and the data looks devastating for the beautiful Columbia River Gorge as the company plans even more data centers.
📣 #BigTech continues to hoard billions of our tax money while destroying both our environment and our society. It's time to speak out.
And not to be outdone:
Here's the story of #Microsoft and their despicable efforts to erase an historic Black cemetery that was in the way of building another #Azure data center.
But hey, we're supposed to shut up and be grateful for their posting of trashed projects on #GitHub.
How about instead let's stop shilling for tax freeloaders in #BigTech and start holding them accountable to be responsible participants in society?
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia
@downey It really ought to be the law that discovery of a previously-unknown cemetery in Virginia triggers an automatic historic-site-treatment rules of operation.
It's Virginia. Every cemetery in that state has historical significance. Especially the unknown ones.
