Save Manassas | We Are Going to COURT to STOP the World's Largest Data Center 

Disgusting! Give em hell Battlefield trust!

Keep on with your efforts!

I'll be signing the petition for sure.

concrete from sea to sea and then in the sea Wind mills...

Let the billionaires go build it on their own homes

No

We need to protect historical sites and early American history but it is far more important to protect the environment. Its literally a mater of survival. The environment is our life support system.

they build a lot of their out of sight out of mind stuff in the south

Yes!!!! Exactly!!! Global warming. Except not from my mega project! It’s your cows that are the problem.

And take way YOUR air conditioning while almost no one is inside a data center.

Amazon

@@marissaawesome2422 Amazon = CIA

There will be no black eye, no one that matters to the project or it's profit gives a damn. Wayyyyyy too much money involved.

DOD/NSA, Amazon, some of the few possibilities.

A lot of times a shell company is made for these projects until the last stage. Google frequently does this with their new data center projects. Disney did something similar when it was buying up land for Walt Disney World.

Usually, when things get rushed through like this, and the public's input and procedural rules are ignored, it's because the politicians are getting paid to do so.

goes without saying...

This country has the best politicians money can buy.

And way too many of them along with un elected bureaucrats .

Always!

There's millions an millions of flat open cheap ground they could buy out west in Kansas or somewhere they could build this thing. Don't understand their thinking.

Bullshit. They own the land, they should be able to use it as they please. Almost every single plot of land in that part of Virginia, and the Eastern United States is a whole. Has some kind of significance in American history or Indian history. That doesn't mean people who are alive today shouldn't be able to use it as they please

​@@zacharyhenderson2902 if it was some family trying to build their home sure, developers however can get fucked. They don't deserve anything.

So what's your plan to end capitalism?

​@@theamericanpotatonamedphil4306it's just rural people shitting their pants and having a tantrum because they hate progress. Same thing with all these people trying to stop solar farms. If there's a chance a project can help someone they might not like you can count on rural people to be opposed to it

They will employ illegals.

Yep, gigantic land use and ecological damage, very few actual jobs added.

Now most data centers are being automated. So even the remaining jobs will go away!

I don't even understand what data centers are, much less what good they do. All I know is my electric bill is slated for a 25% increase because one went in and is sucking up all the power

At the same time, there's no reason for them to take up so much land. You can go up to about 3-5 floors before the engineering spikes the cost up.

I did as well and commuted on 234/29 to Chantilly to work… was always a nice respite from the developments already growing back then… nowadays Sudley is unrecognizable to me…. Sad.

I grew up in the area and so did my mom and it’s a shame what they did up there. I could never live there and embarrassed of it to be honest. My grandpa was a vegetable farmer there

Data centers weren't a thing back then. This is a strategic placement. They're going to build it.

We don't... they do.

Democrats need it for one purpose and one purpose only. To spy on American Citizens who they see as a threat to their democratcy.

If you comment on youtube it means you're using datacenters

@@sergeybrin1963 Exactly why we dont need any. WE ALREADY HAVE THEM!

@@sergeybrin1963Google employees are responsible for their own sins

They probably chose here just to spite the South like they’ve been doing for the past few years It’s a war against history

Lest we forget

Same here in north Georgia. It's such a shame.

Isn't the government supposed to serve and protect? To provide for the general welfare and employment? Doesn't the government know what is best for its subjects?

​@@FordHoardAs for Northern Georgia, a short trip between Atlanta and Nashville makes for cheaper commerce.

Stop voting for the politicians who allow development.

@@FordHoard Yep. Where I live, 25 years ago, it was nothing but fields and horse farms. Now all those horse farms have cashed out to the developers and the fields are now subdivisions. And the kicker is they're not even useful homes, 9 out of every 10 developments out here are "retired 55+ resident" neighborhoods, like having the whole county consist of retirees is a solid growth plan.

In order to preserve something, that something has to be known about, to begin with.

Fighting? Violently? Watch your words.

Can't save everything.... we got to live our lives buddy

​@@inthedarkwoods2022what a looser comment. Its a National Battlefield. They can find a better place to build it. We need to protect out landscape that we currently have. Not to mention it's hollowed ground. Thousands died there.

@@VIKINGKING95 Do you mean loser no looser? People die everywhere... Can't make a park out of everything

@@VIKINGKING95I agree, why not look 60 miles to the west there is a place called West Virginia that is hurting for jobs. It close enough to DC.

You are correct but having grown up in PWC I can tell you that it’s not just the history buffs but also so many people go there to get a way from the busy traffic and hustle of Manassas and centerville.

It wouldn’t surprise me if it was Chinese owned.

@@Helo_rides_for_commies WEF all over it.

Well, I'd say they don't own that land in Belgium. That's why

@@zacharyhenderson2902 Yes of course. Just an analogy and satire.

"They can go elsewhere" where do you have in mind?

@@keyboard_slapLiterally anywhere that isn’t in the backyard of a historic national park?

Unfortunately, I am not in a financial position to donate, but I enthusiastically signed the petition in memory of the Union troops that fought to end slavery and preserve the United States.

I aM doing the same!

I am an RCDD I agree with your assessment It’s such a struggle trying to develop a data center but also minimize the impact on the surrounding community and landscape In a perfect world what we would be doing is repurposing more existing buildings that are not profitable like retail spaces that are being shut down because businesses are moving out Abandoned malls are a perfect location for a data center you’ve got the footprint space there An old sports stadium that is going to be torn down would be another good one

The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear "Data Center" is a HUGE amount of electricity that people will be exposed to...that can cause so many health problems...definitely including cancer. Many other buildings today also create alot of electricity, which isn't something people should be around either, but those two words sound ominous to me as a nutritionist.

@@gomogo2000 Data centers consume tons of gallons of water for its cooling towers

@@MetalHead-ks9zq No, Not in SC. We have enough development here. Too many people have moved here & ruined our rural way of life.

​@@jillwebb1062 All I see here is just empty land and angry drivers on congested singular roads

Hallowed ground, not hollowed out, like the history rewriters would wish.

The entire area has been turned into a parking lot when it used to be beautiful southern country side. It’s depressing. I don’t go back home anymore

Blast from the past!

Data Centers consume tons of gallons of water for its cooling towers

Did this have anything to do with that park Disney wanted to build near Manassas? Or was that later?

@@drewstanley7606 - Sorry, I don't remember, but Garry or someone at ABT may know the answer.

​@@drewstanley7606, that development for the Disney plan was further west than the battlefield, based on what I was told years ago.

Fight it

They keep building huge Amazon distribution centers in towns around me. The lights on those buildings at night are so bright 💀

Actually, it stops at the land they don't own.

Where in Missouri, if you don't mind me asking?

@@zacharyhenderson2902they’re multi billion dollar corporations. They can buy anything the want without a second thought to the little man.

Maybe so, but the Texas independence activists weren't exactly freedom fighters. Many of them were fighting Mexico specifically for the right to own slaves. So they were actually more like the Confederacy than the Union.

The water stats are a bit misleading considering the water gets reused and then poured out again in the same state it entered. So it's not really consuming water in the same way as, let's say, coca cola plant.

@@_loss_ Incorrect. Water is used and treated with anti-corrosive chemicals which are part of any chiller and cooling tower operation. Backflushing systems directly to the public sewer mimics other industries which are allowed by the corrupt government to add additional pollution to the public waterways. Cooling towers can have hundreds if not thousands of gallons of water loss over the course of a year and this water has to be continuously topped off or made up. Some facilities may have an emergency water storage on site, but this also is chemically treated so it is not potable but earmarked for system use. There are also the millions of gallons of rainwater runoff which they will try to mediate with retention ponds which normally turn into misquote havens if not also treated. Typically, data centers are one- or two-story windowless facilities that consume great amounts of water and electrical resources while simultaneously creating hundreds of thousands of gallons of runoff. A lot of land and water degradation for such a small "creating jobs" benefit. Why don't these developers investigate old industrial sites that lay dormant? Why not revitalize old sites instead of butchering pristine land? And finally, it is not smart to have so many critical sites in one geographic location.

Put your money where your mouth is. Please stop watching RU-vid. It is data center powered.

Virtue signalling automatons such as yourself make me laugh.

@@MrEricErwin There are various levels of data center sites. At which level does YT operate?

Thank you !!

Why should they care about the last civil war when they are trying so hard to start the next one?

I wouldn’t be surprised if a Chinese company is trying to buy the land… they really don’t care because it’s not their country and it’s not their history. Which is why , most countries don’t let other international companies buy land… once you start that you end up with these problems. I’m hoping that our government is not encouraging these companies to build on historical sites to get rid of them …. But I wouldn’t put it past them. Our area is building up too and they bent the rules and rezoned a whole farm field for dense residential in the county… The rules in our county is that you have to have at least a quarter acre per lot and apparently we’re only allowed a few of those and the rest have to have half acre lots … that’s what seem to happen in our neighborhood in the 80s. Most of the neighborhoods out here have at least that or half acre lots … this new development that was rezoned- everyone fought it and we lost- is going to allow less than an eighth of acre per lot. They’re going to be able to shove 300 to 500 houses in this field. To give you perspective our neighborhood probably has the same amount of houses but it spans at least Several farmlands that equal a space at least 3 to 5 times the size of this field… And they’re asking minimum $400,000 per house …. that’s almost what my house is worth in this nicer neighborhood. What I don’t understand is how they’re sneaking all these projects in around areas that are either historical or where a lot of rich people live … not even an eighth of a mile away from this new development. There are $2 million houses and they didn’t have any pull stop to stop this? Where are the people fighting for our history and telling these people moving out of the cities to stay where they ruin stuff so we in the country can enjoy quiet and peace like we wish

Honor the rebs who wanted to keep black people enslaved? Are you high?

If only you’d been doing that for the past few years

Thank you!

Or even to make a more reasonable development

History is created by interest and interest is within…

@@joseph8298 Battle of Third Manassas when?

Thank you!!

I couldn’t agree with you anymore

Because pre-digital you didnt have to store youtube videos nor people's comments.

It's all nonsense. Elon Musk, the big billionaires, big companies, they don't care about history. To them, Manassas is just a field. The hallowed dead who still lie there today, are, to them, no more than impediments to money.

Because they are collecting literally everything there is to know about us all.

Data centers aren't just for storing info, they hold all the tech for running the internet. We need more because usage keeps going up, especially with so many jobs going online. Regardless, there's something like 175 trillion gigabytes of info on the internet, it would take a lot of space to save that in any medium

Well, we keep letting people into the country and people have to live somewhere.

@Helo_rides_for_commies Build affordable housing and change zone limitation. Not everyone needs to live in a single family suburban house.

These aren't houses. This has nothing to do with the suburbs

@@user-ie1hg5ov1m Who gets to decide who lives in a nice house and who lives in the slums then? Hmm, you? I think not, every hardworking American should be able to live in a single family suburban home if they wish.

@@dancooper6002 you need to get out more

They might as well build a town

Bet ya 60% of it will be parking lot

@@Demopans5990I can’t even go back there it’s depressing what they’ve done to my home. Brings a tear to my eye

I can’t go back it’s to depressing to see what they did up there

We know it is. That’s why they’re constantly tearing down our memorials. Uncle Sam don’t give a damn

The Gooberment doesn't care about history at all. They've clearly forgotten about 1775 and why we broke away from the Brits, because they are currently doing, or trying to do, many of the exact same things that we fought the redcoats over. Thanks for the support!