Ein Bauer spendete Land, um es in einen Park umzuwandeln. Stattdessen baut die Stadt ein riesiges Rechenzentrum / 1999 verschenkte ein Bauer 87 Hektar Land an eine kleine Stadt in Texas, um es als Park zu nutzen. Die Stadt verkaufte es für 10 Millionen US-Dollar an einen Rechenzentrumsentwickler.
https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/
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*notes to self*
“Don’t trust the government”
Kinda sucks, but if was donated to the city with no provision for it staying as a „park/non-developed area“ not much legally that can be done.
I work in tech and everyday I hate it a little more. Growing up in Appalachia we still see the scars of coal mining. Mountain top removal, acid drainage in creeks and streams, these AI data centers are the modern equivalent. A few people get rich while the land is destroyed and people in rural areas are promised a better life.
Edit: Appalachia education kicked in, I now know the difference between cars and scars.
It’s amazing how often „great for the future“ ends up meaning „terrible for the people who already live there.“
That’s why these days we have „permanent loan“
never give shit away in 2026, property is a fleeting concept
Land trusts are a better route
Remember that time we donated a shit ton of money to telecom companies to build a better fiber optic network all over the country? I say donate because they never did anything and we never got that money back, so I hardly think we can call it a purchase or anything lmao
This country and the political worms who inhabit it fucking rule ngl
I can’t wait for the Jason Statham movie, where he plays a farmer that goes to war with a data center.
Wtf? This makes me so angry and sad.
Here someone donated land here a long time ago with previsions that a percentage had to be park, the city tried to put up a development for that land and couldn’t because of the provision. Would have gotten rid of 4 baseball fields and a lot of parkland along a stream here just to put up some business center, fuck that.
The family aught to sue. Most times these deals come with stipulations that the land only be used as a park or ownership reverts back to the family. Or some other form of penalty.
It’s sad we’re absolutely watching the destruction of the planet accelerated and our politicians have completely fucked us over.
This is in Texas, so it totally tracks… and also sucks.
Local politicians all should be named collectively and individually by class action or any way to take their property, jobs ,savings to purchase a larger park valued at least twice the cost of the gift plus attorney fee. Rake these politicians over the coals so sad. Tar and feathers also appropriate
It will cost the town it’s entire water supply and drive electricity prices up by 3000%, but will make one job and allow dead eyed people to make clanging pipe man AI videos.
Well… Texas. What did anyone expect?
Since the gift was conditional, the farmer should reclaim the land.
This is why we can’t have nice things. Literally this is why we can’t.
Any heirs of that farmer should sue to get the land back because it was donated for ONE purpose and it’s not being used for it.
Heartbreaking, but not surprising for Texas.
Texas incentives deals like this with promises of receiving millions from companies. It rarely works out for taxpayers. The parasitic companies move on to another community who offers them a better deal a few years later and the taxpayers are stiffed on the owed funds.
I’m surpised they didn’t have some sort of clause that banned the city from selling or using the land for anything other than a park. A local family near me donated land that included an old swimming hole to the county, but it had to become a public park and the county was not allowed to charge visitors. If any of this two rules were broken, the land reverted back to the family.
Its been a free public park for my entire life and is still a great place to spend the day on the water.
Almost 30 years ago a farming family deeded land to the City of Taylor, Texas, on the condition the city use it for a public park. For the nominal fee of $10, the farmers granted the 87 acres to a public trust in 1999. Taylor sold it to Blueprint, a data center developer, for $10 million in 2025. Now the land that was supposed to belong to the community will become a 135,000 square foot data center.
Read now: [https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/](https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/)
Everything is biglier in texas, even the corruption.
I came here to say „oh they should’ve given it to a trust and put the conditions in the deed.“ But they DID do that and the city is still going to completely ignore it, and the corrupt courts are going to help them steal this land from their own people.
I love how Texans are some of the biggest bitches in the country. It’s not „don’t mess with Texas“, it’s „you can absolutely mess with Texas. In fact, you can basically do anything you want and they will roll over and take it as long as you have an R in front of your name“. Not the catchiest slogan ever, but more accurate than the first.
It’ll still be a park. A park dedicated to America’s religion, Capitalism. The park will be closed to the public, but it will be a shining beacon of American values!
Whenever „the town“ „sells“ something, it basically means one to a small few people got paid big bucks to pass a corrupt deal through.
This is why use restrictions and right of reverter language is imperative in these kind of donations/conveyances.