@creole_madscientist: Our Future Leaders Have Spoken👧🏽 A hyperscale data center is under construction in Holly Ridge, Louisiana. A rural community of 20,000 where a quarter of residents live below the poverty line. It sits less than a mile away from Holly Ridge Elementary School.🏫 🚧 A fourth grader told WWNO that construction noise and passing 18-wheelers shake her classroom walls making it impossible to concentrate. She and her grandmother were nearly struck by a truck on the way to school. Vehicle crashes in this community have increased 600% since construction began. There were 64 crashes between January and mid-September 2025 compared to just nine in all of 2024. 🚛 The largest and most expensive hyperscale facility ever built in the United States is rising in a community that had no say in it arriving. And the children who live there are paying the price in disrupted classrooms, lost playgrounds, and daily anxiety just getting to school. Who benefits and who bears the risk? 🗺️ Stop 2 takes us to Tensas Parish. Here, we explore the ripple effects of this facility on nearby institutions and one of Louisiana’s most important economic engines.👩🏽🌾 #louisiana #meta #nda #secret #richland
