As tech giants rush to build infrastructure, some residents who live near data centers say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.
The US has a serious problem with who is able to sue for what damages when it comes to pollution. Depending on if it’s noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.
Almost, they’re not effective at protecting the property or people negatively affected by the pollution because they were specifically designed to protect the people doing the polluting and their “property” (read: capital).
The US has a serious problem with who is able to sue for what damages when it comes to pollution. Depending on if it’s noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.
Almost, they’re not effective at protecting the property or people negatively affected by the pollution because they were specifically designed to protect the people doing the polluting and their “property” (read: capital).
As SCOTUS keeps ruling (most recently, yesterday) corporations are people (id est, have rights) but human beings do not.
That’s just it though, this is damaging to corporations as well.
Publicize the costs, privatize the profits!
Boy, it’s almost like those are meant to protect something and someone else… Hm… 🤔