Gizmodo: Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns. “Painting a picture straight out of a Taylor Sheridan series, the Bloomberg piece details the rise of the ‘man camps’ built to facilitate the construction of data centers. Amenity-filled pop-up villages in remote areas used to serve as a carrot for oil industry contractors. The model has since expanded […]

Next episode of AHIMH is out: "What Are Company Towns?"

Youtube:
https://youtu.be/hd8td0wd648

Podcast:
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/hf3l36VXcOb

Wordpress:
https://harrisees.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/what-are-company-towns/

#capitalism #USA #corporategreed #unions #strike #companytowns

The Return of Company Towns - by Stowe Boyd - Work Futures

https://www.workfutures.io/p/the-return-of-company-towns

>Corporations step in when politicians commit housing malpractice.

#housing #corporations #publicduties #zoning #capitalism #companytowns

It's a far cry from a colony on #Mars, but I guess you have to start somewhere.

https://elonsucks.org/@worldnews/109996593642656506

What frustrates me about our adulation of these #billionaires is that we treat their ideas as new and innovative without any critical thought. #CompanyTowns have been used to #oppress workers for centuries.