Shelbyville, Indiana, Mayor Says Only Poor People Oppose Data Centers

[Johny Joe Hold]

Data centers are wonderful things for local cities. Companies buy up big chunks of land, put up buildings full of switiches and use up whatever power is available. Still, anti progress people, socialists and atheists mostly, are circulating petitions many places to stop these projects. One place is Shelbyville where a fine Christian Mayor Scotty Furgeson told them off. The houses that will be bulldozed for the data center in Shelbyville are $hitty, Scotty said. Mayors know housing so he has to be right. These lazy slum dwellers need to move out and let capitalism move in.

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[handmaiden]

I see Springfield on the map not far from Shelbyville. Are you sure that this "news' isn't from some Simpsons episode?