{"id":9359,"date":"2026-06-07T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:01:00","slug":"the-mayor-of-shelbyville-indiana-says-only-people-who-live-in-shitty-houses-oppose-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9359","title":{"rendered":"The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in \u2018shitty houses\u2019 oppose data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Terrence O\u2019Brien<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 6, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo collage of a data center.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/STKS528_DATA_CENTERS_A.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">A proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/2026\/04\/10\/shelbyville-common-council-advances-plans-for-2b-data-center-complex\/\">$2 billion data center<\/a> has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@moreperfectunion\/video\/7647663715872967950?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-96yS8CT6EmL\">caught on camera<\/a> saying of the &#8220;No Data Center&#8221; signs going up that, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen a lot of these all over town, but I only see them in shitty houses,&#8221; before adding, &#8220;most of them are rentals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The woman speaking to him in the clip quickly pushes back, saying that they&#8217;re &#8220;working class,&#8221; and someone chimes in to add something that a mayor shouldn&#8217;t have to be told about their constituents: &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t matter whether they&#8217;re rentals, they&#8217;re still hu \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/944984\/shelbyville-indiana-mayor-shitty-houses-data-center\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/944984\/shelbyville-indiana-mayor-shitty-houses-data-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrence O\u2019Brien &bull; June 6, 2026 A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the &#8220;No Data Center&#8221; signs going up that, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen a lot<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9359\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}