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A resident was arrested for clapping at a data center meeting. The city responded by moving all public meetings online for ‘safety.’ This isn’t about protecting residents—it’s about eliminating the physical space where dissent becomes visible. When officials can’t handle a clap, they’ll remove the room entirely. This is the new playbook for silencing public opposition.
Nashville used eminent domain — the government’s most aggressive land tool — not to build something, but to block a data center near its zoo. This isn’t NIMBYism. It’s a signal that cities are reclaiming power over land use from tech companies, and zoning battles are becoming the new frontier in who controls urban space.
While the entire tech industry obsesses over cyberattacks, a gang of thieves pulled off a multimillion-dollar data center heist the old-fashioned way: they walked in and took the servers. The real vulnerability in our data infrastructure isn’t digital — it’s physical. And no firewall in the world can stop a van.