Most visibly, it's an era of towns despoiled by data centers people hate, by governments operating in extreme secrecy, who silence and even arrest citizens for demanding a legitimate process to deciding whether they will have power, water, land and peace:
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City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for 'Public Safety'
A small town in Kansas took its city meetings virtual and ended public comment after city leaders received a wave of death threats.