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re: Construction on Meta’s large data center brings car crash spike, chaos to rural Louisiana
Posted on 11/23/25 at 8:01 am to FightinTigersDammit
Posted on 11/23/25 at 8:01 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Posted on 11/23/25 at 8:02 am to Street Hawk
Do these people even Bogalusa? A papermill in the middle of town was the cause of people leaving and no one coming because it smells like dog shite. It's the price the community has to pay for people to have jobs.
I do believe that the elected officials should think past "they're spending X billion dollars so this is good no matter the cost". But we rarely elect the best or the brightest.
I do believe that the elected officials should think past "they're spending X billion dollars so this is good no matter the cost". But we rarely elect the best or the brightest.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 8:14 am to Street Hawk
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Interviews with residents and crash reports tell a different story: careless, reckless and sometimes unlicensed drivers rumbling through the rural town, endangering everyone.
First off, let's be honest in admitting that Holly Ridge isn't a city, it's a sparsely populated community which encompasses a largely undefined area. There are a lot of these in rural areas (I grew up in one).
Second, if the problem is that bad then why isn't Richland SO posting up a couple of units to run radar and check CDLs (or at least sit at the intersection by the school) 24/7?
Posted on 11/23/25 at 8:41 am to Bard
These Meta sites are a hopped Landfill that will be eyesores in due time.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 8:51 am to Zap Rowsdower
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Yeah but nobody is talking about the real bull elephant in the room with this META stuff- getting a table at Los Parrilleros.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 11:10 am to Bard
A large number of these trucks are running with temporary tags and drivers that don’t speak a lot of English. I can’t tell you how many I’ve seen wrecked on I20 between Tallulah and Holly Ridge. State DOT troopers could sit out there every day and write tickets or shut unsafe trucks down but they don’t. You can’t tell me they haven’t been instructed to go lightly when it comes to the Meta center
Posted on 11/23/25 at 11:54 am to lsujag
It’s not like this area was booming before META. People will complain no matter what
Posted on 11/23/25 at 11:59 am to Street Hawk
The whiniest people are in these small towns about any thing out of the ordinary.
Whines about traffic.
Whines about people.
Whines about progress of any kind.
All crying with their hands out.
Whines about traffic.
Whines about people.
Whines about progress of any kind.
All crying with their hands out.
This post was edited on 11/23/25 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 11/23/25 at 12:01 pm to LsuNav
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Why doesn’t META just build them a new school in an area unaffected by the truck traffic?
Same reason Mark Zuckerberg‘s charity, Chan Zuckerberg Initiativ, is a for-product company.
Dude is an docuhe and all about making money.
New school and playground can be completely written off in taxes for him. But he’s a giant douche
Posted on 11/23/25 at 1:06 pm to Cuz413
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Just looking at Google maps and the playground appears to be about 30 feet from the highway.
First, you can bet it’s not 30 feet. Second, kid playgrounds are near highways in lots of places.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 1:12 pm to Turnblad85
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Journalists like to write things that are really bad or really good because people don't want to read a story that's says things are pretty much OK and boring.
Puts into question all the news articles I've read over the years on places and things I know nothing about.
Sensationalism sells, and negative sensationalism sells even better.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 1:32 pm to Stealth Matrix
This article was lifted and slightly altered from the original put out by a public tv/radio station in New Orleans.
They started it off by proclaiming the data center will be the "size of Manhattan"
Makes it sounds incredibly huge and invokes and outsider big city image in the readers mind. Even showed a picture of Manhattan and superimposed a data center dwarfing everything.
No one in the comments on that even questioned the size. They tell a sensational lie in the first 2 sentences to make sure they influence the reader.
Perspective on a Manhattan scale. The data center will have about the same square footage of one of the world trade center towers.
They started it off by proclaiming the data center will be the "size of Manhattan"
Makes it sounds incredibly huge and invokes and outsider big city image in the readers mind. Even showed a picture of Manhattan and superimposed a data center dwarfing everything.
No one in the comments on that even questioned the size. They tell a sensational lie in the first 2 sentences to make sure they influence the reader.
Perspective on a Manhattan scale. The data center will have about the same square footage of one of the world trade center towers.
This post was edited on 11/23/25 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 11/23/25 at 3:09 pm to Street Hawk
Wow 3 more wrecks than normal!
Posted on 11/23/25 at 4:49 pm to Street Hawk
Our former power plants coal mine is now becoming a giant solar panel farm.
I'd rather have a damn coal plant than acres and acres of solar panels. At least with the local coal mine, they reclaim the land after use.
These data centers are the true result of stupidity - let's destroy dependable power producing coal plants and replace them with less reliable power, and then have huge corporations hog up the power that is left for a data center. You want a data center? Build you a private power plant.
I'd rather have a damn coal plant than acres and acres of solar panels. At least with the local coal mine, they reclaim the land after use.
These data centers are the true result of stupidity - let's destroy dependable power producing coal plants and replace them with less reliable power, and then have huge corporations hog up the power that is left for a data center. You want a data center? Build you a private power plant.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 4:56 pm to chinhoyang
Wait until electric bills literally triple. Absolute insanity
Posted on 11/23/25 at 5:23 pm to The Torch
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Wait until all the Indians show up
They're not going to show up, they'll be offshore. The only people working will be a couple of cable/rack dudes, the servers will be maintained elsewhere. The electricians, etc., will be contractors that will come in from Baton Rouge, Laffy, MSY, etc. Post construction, there will be almost nobody there full time.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 8:53 pm to Street Hawk
The article quotes kids as sources to why they can't use the playground and doesn't tell us how many of the wrecks are between the trucks and don't involve locals.
I'm guessing this is just some crap journalism meant to sow discord while ignoring that this thing is going to be a huge win for the schools based on local taxes alone.
I'm guessing this is just some crap journalism meant to sow discord while ignoring that this thing is going to be a huge win for the schools based on local taxes alone.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 9:39 pm to hansenthered1
I thought the lottery $$ was going to be a boon for education?
Richland parish has a population of 20,000+~, the public schools are shite and no amount of $$ will ever fix them. Land owner and construction company will be the only entities making $$ of this shite show.
The aquifer and electrical grid gonna be fukd.
Richland parish has a population of 20,000+~, the public schools are shite and no amount of $$ will ever fix them. Land owner and construction company will be the only entities making $$ of this shite show.
The aquifer and electrical grid gonna be fukd.
Posted on 11/23/25 at 9:41 pm to KemoSabe65
Yes, keep it rural broke and backwards.
Posted on 11/24/25 at 12:17 am to Street Hawk
What I can't figure out is where are all the workers staying. There's not near enough housing in that area for all the people that will be required to build that place.
Also, it's a great time to be an electrician. Non stop demand.
New Carlisle Indiana is rocking. Why does anyone without kids stay and work in the low wage south?
Also, it's a great time to be an electrician. Non stop demand.
New Carlisle Indiana is rocking. Why does anyone without kids stay and work in the low wage south?
This post was edited on 11/24/25 at 12:20 am
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