Krambu killer, Jennie Dixon, really wanted the process to play out. In fact, according to Dixon, she encouraged Krambu to stay the course because Missoula County could have been the first county in ALL OF AMERICA to show the country how to do this data center thing the RIGHT way.
“I was surprised they decided to withdraw their application,” said county planner Jennie Dixon. “I was encouraging them to stay the course because, wouldn’t it be fantastic if Missoula could be the poster child for how to do a data center the right way? That’s our goal with this interim pause, to figure out how to be the example for the country on how to do these the right way.”
The “interim pause” being proposed allows local officials to “study” this issue. Part of this process includes sending a lame-duck County Commissioner to the National Association of Counties to assess that the data centers of 2023 are NOT the data centers of 2026. Amazing insight, Josh!
Commissioner Josh Slotnick attended a meeting with the National Association of Counties earlier this year where data centers were a point of conversation, he said.
“This was the biggest topic,” Slotnick said. “The data centers of 2023 aren’t the data centers of 2026.”
Another person who should be celebrating this data center development is the guy who did a petition. YOU REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE the NBC Montana headline shouted! All you need is a COMPUTER (the irony) and the gumption to say NOT IN MY BACKYARD!
NBC Montana caught up with Paul Barmore, who started the petition “Reject permits for the AI data center in Bonner, MT.” The petition has garnered over 48,000 signatures throughout the process.
When asked if he thought he’d be interviewed on Monday without the petition, Barmore said, “I don’t believe so, no.”
Change.org, the internet petition website that NBC Montana points out is the only reason they gave a shit about interviewing Paul Barmore, received financial backing from Reid Hoffman, according to Wikipedia:
Change.org makes revenue through a subscription membership model and people promoting petitions on the site. In 2013 the organization’s CEO stated its mission: “Our role is to empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see.”
Change.org is a for-profit, “venture-backed company that hosts activist petitions written by members of the public, gathers email addresses from signees, and encourages people to circulate the petitions heavily on social media. While for-profit, Change.org is a public benefit company with B Corp status.” It has raised US $72 million from backers, including LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.
And Reid Hoffman, for those who don’t know, is heavily connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
Reid Hoffman has defended his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as limited to “fundraising,” via a handful of calls, emails and in-person meetings that ended in March 2018. But documents recently released by the US Justice Department suggest a longer and more personal relationship that’s drawing scrutiny to a major Democratic Party donor.
The LinkedIn Corp. co-founder and venture capitalist first met Epstein through fundraising work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, five years after Epstein pled guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution and served time in jail. Over the years they exchanged gifts — dumbbells for Hoffman, a metal surfer statue for Epstein — with Hoffman staying at both Epstein’s Caribbean island and his townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side.
And in May 2018, emails show Hoffman reaching out to Epstein about investing in a new fund being raised by entrepreneur Joi Ito, then the director of the MIT Media Lab. Billionaire Hoffman was putting his own money into the fund, which was unrelated to the university.
“Joi says that you’re on the fence around investing in the fund — worth scheduling a skype call for that? OK if no,” Hoffman wrote.
“Always can make time for a Reid skype :)” Epstein replied.
I hope these uncomfortable facts about Epstein and his investor pal sinking money into the same online protest infrastructure used by 48,000 idiots doesn’t dampen the celebratory mood because people really do need to feel like they have some control left in a world run by billionaire child-fuckers.
So HOORAY! You killed the data center, kids! Now go make an Instagram reel about it and maybe you’ll go viral.
If you appreciate my local reporting on this data center freak-out, like how I was the ONLY ONE to report that this former mill site no longer has a discharge permit, then consider donating to my new GoFundMe page. Any little bit helps as I defend myself against the latest round of lawfare that no paid reporter in Missoula appears motivated to report on (yet).
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