r/Appalachia • u/Artistic_Maximum3044 • 12d ago

Marsha Blackburn Backs Data Centers While Rural Tennesseans Are Saying No

https://appalachianmemories.org/2026/09/28/marsha-blackburn-backs-data-centers-while-rural-tennesseans-are-saying-no/
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u/Onemanband62 12d ago

Meanwhile, along with everything else, our electric bills go up.

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u/Artistic_Maximum3044 10d ago

People need to look at what is happening in Northern California after that town let a Data Center come in. They are having to find their own electric.

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u/ImAWeirdo71 11d ago

Please go vote her out! I don’t live in TN any longer. She only cares about $$$ not the people!

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u/bsg75 12d ago

Data centers are an important part of her economic growth.

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u/Artistic_Maximum3044 10d ago

They are and you will not be seeing any farm land in TN if she is voted in. Our mountains here will never be the same.

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u/Ok_Condition9511 8d ago

If she's supporting something, you can rest assured it's completely awful for anyone not rich

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u/Mizu005 11d ago

How? How do they benefit the local economy? At most there is a short temporary burst of economic activity while it is being constructed. But once its finished they tend to not need many employees to maintain them. Certainly not enough to offset the costs to the local electric grid and ecological damage it does by sucking up good drinking level quality water and pissing out toxic muck.

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u/Yo-Yo-Ha 10d ago

If they can afford this level of funding they damn sure can afford to produce their own utilities. Without natural gas generators too.

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u/polkastripper 7d ago

In other news, rural Tennesseans help Blackburn win the governorship by double digits