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Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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dsfyu404ed wrote: post #99
rotten wrote: post #34

I live next to where this is going in (walking distance). We already have a huge Google Data Center, One of the Ohio-east region availability zones. A Meta data center and office park, and a dbt data center under construction all within a short radius. We also have a vitamin factory being built, we have a large Amazon Fulfillment center, an R&D lab for a perfume company, and an R&D lab for plastics packaging. All of…

If you do manage to hang onto your land then what? The development will drive up property values to the moon and bring in all the people and problems that are included with that. You won't want to live in what your town is becoming.

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Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by rotten »

cycrutchfield wrote: post #79
lofatdairy wrote: post #62

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I don't think GP is advocating to keep the land undeveloped. They even go so far as the point out how the area makes a lot of sense for developers. The problems they identify seem to be 1) the reckless abandon to which developers are damaging ecosystems 2) an economic situation that allows developers to benefit significantly without these benefits necessarily passing into the community 3) the significant challenges o…

> an economic situation that allows developers to benefit significantly without these benefits necessarily passing into the community Does the development of that land not result in increased property taxes to fund local services?

The opposite. It is those of us who live here who are paying for the new water and sewer lines and roads and street lights and law enforcement. Not the developers nor the big corporations who are getting abatements.

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by klyrs »

gonzo41 wrote: post #95
rotten wrote: post #34

I live next to where this is going in (walking distance). We already have a huge Google Data Center, One of the Ohio-east region availability zones. A Meta data center and office park, and a dbt data center under construction all within a short radius. We also have a vitamin factory being built, we have a large Amazon Fulfillment center, an R&D lab for a perfume company, and an R&D lab for plastics packaging. All of…

Wiping out that wetland may be a big mistake. Wetlands flood. I hope they had a climate change updated 1:100 year flood study done. Oh well. I would suggest you consider making it painfull for them and trying to extract the highest price from them as you can. If it really is as inevitable as you say. All the best.

1:100 is nothing these days. The initial alarm bells over "global warming" didn't have access to the computational resources we have today and focused on average global temperature. We're seeing 1:1000 events downright frequently these days because the planet hasn't seen conditions like this in a very long time and our statistical models have a hundred years of lag built-in. I do hope they get their engineering right; fabs are full of nasty chemistry and in a flood plain it will travel quite far as the water rises.

Isn't Ohio tornado country?

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by rotten »

roarcher wrote: post #74
cycrutchfield wrote: post #56

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I never understand this mentality. Keep undeveloped land undeveloped for what? People would rather have unemployment and opiate addicts instead of development and progress.

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Many of us are high tech remote workers who enjoy the peace and quiet and open space.

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by rotten »

roarcher wrote: post #86
cycrutchfield wrote: post #84

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> Just because some NIMBY online says that’s not what they want doesn’t mean that they are right. Right, it's only their home. Who are they to decide? They should do as their betters tell them. Edit: By the way, the original commenter clarified that he's talking about New Albany. Not a struggling area by any means.

New Albany is very affluent. My nearest 3 neighbors are all doctors.

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by throwayyy479087 »

doublerabbit wrote: post #35
throwayyy479087 wrote: post #20

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Ohio has enormous parks already

Why not more?

I’m going to bet you’ve never been to Ohio. It’s actually pretty real, and desperately needs jobs. There’s tons of high quality nature preserves and private land, and the monoculture farmland being bought here is not that.

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by rotten »

death_to_nimby wrote: post #92
rotten wrote: post #34

I live next to where this is going in (walking distance). We already have a huge Google Data Center, One of the Ohio-east region availability zones. A Meta data center and office park, and a dbt data center under construction all within a short radius. We also have a vitamin factory being built, we have a large Amazon Fulfillment center, an R&D lab for a perfume company, and an R&D lab for plastics packaging. All of…

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Food comes from farms. Every time we wipe out a few more farms, we have less land to produce food on.

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by renewedrebecca »

cycrutchfield wrote: post #84
roarcher wrote: post #81

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> Seems like development and new jobs would be helpful for the area, no? Maybe, maybe not. Those tell me about Ohio in general, not the area the parent commenter is talking about. Either way, I'd be inclined to ask the people who live there what they want, not prescribe "development and jobs" from my ivory tower while insulting them. My point is that you're making a pretty absurd false dichotomy. It's either "unemplo…

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You really have no idea what you're talking about. That part of Ohio isn't exactly underdeveloped.

If we were talking about parts of Southern Ohio, then sure, but New Albany? No, that's not where the overdoses are happening.

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by notatoad »

redonkulus wrote: post #65
rotten wrote: post #34

I live next to where this is going in (walking distance). We already have a huge Google Data Center, One of the Ohio-east region availability zones. A Meta data center and office park, and a dbt data center under construction all within a short radius. We also have a vitamin factory being built, we have a large Amazon Fulfillment center, an R&D lab for a perfume company, and an R&D lab for plastics packaging. All of…

Real life Yellowstone but instead of ski resorts and casino's, its data centers.

and instead of mountains and rivers and breathtaking scenery, it's featureless flat land.

Re: Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio

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Post by renewedrebecca »

jeffbee wrote: post #14

Interesting. I associate the region with air pollution and carbon-intensive power. Ohio is near the bottom of the 50 states in wind and solar energy. A few years ago I would not have said Ohio was going to attract so much datacenter construction, but now every big datacenter operator is there.

It's ok- our governor just declared natural gas to be green energy, so we don't need that silly wind and solar stuff.
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