The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

A projected $2 cardinal information center has go a governmental flashpoint successful the tiny metropolis of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the contention has lone grown much aggravated aft the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught connected camera saying of the "No Data Center" signs going up that, "I've seen a batch of these each implicit town, but I lone spot them successful shitty houses," earlier adding, "most of them are rentals."

The pistillate speaking to him successful the clip rapidly pushes back, saying that they're "working class," and idiosyncratic chimes successful to adhd thing that a politician shouldn't person to beryllium told astir their constituents: "it doesn't substance whether they're rentals, they're inactive hu …

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