“Why are the big IT companies going out to buy land in the middle of "nowhere?" Why is Facebook buying Farms in Nebraska, Microsoft buying farms in Ohio, or Amazon buying 430 acres, 40 miles outside of Atlanta? It's because water and power are available, the local leadership can be easily bought with the promised increases in tax revenues. Basically the local leadership is too naive to see far enough down the road to the reduced ground-water and grid reliability.”
@gerrymcgovern
A new, water bottling plant suckered a rural city south of the #Mpls#MN metro into giving away practically free access to an aquifer that covers a large part of the state.
In the name of a few #jobs. #facepalm