A widely shared post points out that Bill Gates is America’s largest private farmland owner (270,000 acres across 18 states) and asks the obvious thing: why can’t Microsoft put its thirsty, power-hungry data centres there, instead of on someone else’s patch? First Nations people had thoughts.
“A bloke owns farmland the size of a small country, and the data centres still get dumped on everyone else’s doorstep,” said Aunty Marlene Davis, of the Institute for Things Mob Already Knew. “Bub, that’s the oldest arrangement going. The powerful keep their own patch pristine; the burden (the noise, the power draw, the water) lands on the communities with the least clout. Out our way, that’s us. Always our mob hosting the infrastructure nobody wanted near their own place.”
She zeroed in on the water. “These data centres drink water like it’s free, on land that’s already drying out. Water’s sacred to us — it’s Country, it’s life. And they’ll pour it into cooling a shed full of servers before they’ll pipe clean water to a community that’s gone without for years. Priorities, bub.”
Aunty Marlene kept it sharp. “‘Build it on your own land,’ the post says. Strewth, imagine. The rich never host the thing they profit from. They host the profit; we host the cost. Gammon progress, true god.”
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