spottedmarley
5 hours ago
Nice, so the town gets a bundle of cash to loot and the homeowners affected by the datacenter get... a datacenter. Why not deliver the money directly to the the people affected rather than using it to grease the local politicians? Oh, duh, I guess that was the point.
andsoitis
3 hours ago
In the US, citizens elect their town council. In some cities the citizens also elect their mayor directly, while in others it is the town council that does.