{"id":24312,"date":"2026-08-08T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/this-is-very-real-redlining-outrage-in-little-rock-as-two-datacenters-loom\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:37:25","slug":"this-is-very-real-redlining-outrage-in-little-rock-as-two-datacenters-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/this-is-very-real-redlining-outrage-in-little-rock-as-two-datacenters-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is very real redlining\u2019: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and \u2018appropriating rural, Black-owned land<strong> <\/strong>for industrial purposes<strong>\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a fight over datacenters in nearly every city in the US right now. And amid the extreme polarization of today\u2019s politics, the opposition tends to be bipartisan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say it\u2019s kind of the far left and the far right ran into each other and had a hug,\u201d said Frank Scott Jr, mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. \u201cBut they come at it from different perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/07\/datacenters-little-rock-arkansas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/16347a92110970ee878c953d608e7e7997787c13\/425_0_4250_3400\/master\/4250.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=61307613a56057295870d76580cac213\" title=\"\u2018This is very real redlining\u2019: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom\" \/>Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and \u2018appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes\u2019<br \/>\nThere seems to be a fight over datacenters in nearly every city in the US right now. And amid the extreme polarization of today\u2019s politics, the opposition tends to be bipartisan.<br \/>\n\u201cI would say it\u2019s kind of the far left and the far right ran into each other and had a hug,\u201d said Frank Scott Jr, mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. \u201cBut they come at it from different perspectives.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and \u2018appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes\u2019 There seems to be a fight over datacenters in nearly every city in the US right now. And amid the extreme polarization of today\u2019s politics, the opposition tends to be bipartisan. \u201cI would say it\u2019s kind &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/this-is-very-real-redlining-outrage-in-little-rock-as-two-datacenters-loom\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018This is very real redlining\u2019: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}