Noise pollution? Light pollution? Noxious and toxic cancerous fumes being spewed into the air? Vibrations felt miles away? Using a ton of water and county resources where they are already scarce?
No, I’m not talking about some yet-to-be-built data center that is the very foundation of modern life which we use 100 times a day and take for granted.
I’m talking about Firefly’s “Rocket Ranch” in Briggs Texas – the one that builds rockets to send landers to the moon, but who seems to blow up more things than it doesn’t. Which is an endeavor that is frankly very expensive, has no ROI and won’t help my everyday life one bit.
I’m no fake rancher communist, but it seems to me that lighting off massive rockets and storing huge tanks of hydrazine is WAY more disruptive and polluting than an unassuming, windowless building that has a lot of air conditioners hooked up to it as it silently runs electrons through server racks. The rocket noise is far worse. The noxious fumes and pollution are FAR worse. The vibrations are REAL and felt for a FAR greater distance. The light pollution is worse.
The danger is DEFINITELY far worse as evidenced by Rocket Ranch’s “anomalies” and mysterious fireballs that could have EASILY lit massive wildfires in the Hill Country.
I bet the chickens around there are laying 50% less eggs and all the cattle are losing 30% of their body weight too! No doubt children are developing heart murmurs from this abomination, as well.
“The Greedy Few,” indeed – a bunch of private equity scumbags raping and scarring the beautiful Hill Country. And Clayton Tucker’s dad is right there in the middle of it all raking in the cash. Disgusting.
OH – and they got shit tons of those “taxpayer handouts to Big Wigs” that Comrade Clayton complains about non-stop:
But Comrade Clayton will COMPLETELY IGNORE all this, you see. It’s just fine if Rocket Ranch disrupts the area, pollutes, ignites fires and spews smoke into the environment. That’s because Clayton’s DADDY works there!
And since Clayton’s DADDY works there, he is able to scoop up a lot of taxpayer-funded money so he can go home and buy Clayton a shiny, new, imported Japanese tractor for him to pose on as a fake rancher for his campaign!
Here is how the bribes work: Clayton’s Daddy goes to work at Rocket Ranch and rapes and pillages the land for a huge taxpayer-funded paycheck. Then Daddy buys Clayton shiny new tractors, cows and gay ballcaps like the one pictured above.
In return, Clayton turns a blind eye to Rocket Ranch destroying the Hill Country just as much as any ‘data center’ would. Instead, he spends all day every day pointing fingers at data centers that are FAR less intrusive and disruptive than Daddy’s company.
The circle jerk of backscratching and bribes is thus complete!