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A person in a dark beanie, scarf and sweater stands at the left edge of a lake, looking down at the water, with a forested hillside behind. Overlaid text reads: "crazy how high speed rail takes 23 years of reviews and planning to not be built but thousands of data centers can be built on top of people and habitat in less than a month"

High Speed Rail Takes Decades, Data Centers Take Weeks

A caption over a moody lake photo contrasts high speed rail stalled for 23 years of reviews with data centers built over people and habitat in a month. Xennials remember promised futures.

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A person in a dark beanie, scarf and sweater stands at the left edge of a lake, looking down at the water, with a forested hillside behind. Overlaid text reads: "crazy how high speed rail takes 23 years of reviews and planning to not be built but thousands of data centers can be built on top of people and habitat in less than a month"

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A wooden sign on a hilltop overlooks a river valley at sunset, with layered blue mountains, an orange sky, and a canoe on the water. The sign reads: "IT'S NOT WORTH GIVING UP AN INCH OF THIS FOR A DATA CENTER". Subway-style map of the continental US titled "United States High Speed Rail System" with colored lines linking cities from Vancouver and Seattle to Miami, including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. A legend reads "Travel time at 220 mph" with a 0 to 6 hour scale. Credit: Alfred Twu, February 2013. Three side-by-side photos of young men: one with shoulder-length hair in a light blue shirt speaking near a microphone, one in a backwards white mesh cap and pink polo smiling, one in a dark dotted shirt laughing. Text: "We had hoped for years that racism and bigotry would die out with an older generation but Mehdi Hasan on "Surrounded" shows how futile that hope was as these hateful young men and women gleefully… A white and brown ceramic mug on a store shelf. Black block letters on the mug read "THE FUTURE IS". A red-orange clearance sticker over the brown part reads "REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE $2", with small print "Was: 3.99 Save: 1.99". Text at top: "Therapist: You said you were disappointed with life & how the world operates. What were your expectations? Me:" Below is a colorful Richard Scarry-style illustration of a cheerful town of animal characters, with a Post Office, Town Hall with a clock, an orange car, and cats, mice and dogs in windows. Caption at top: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Three stacked views of the same dark cyberpunk city skyline. Labeled "1985", the sky is gray TV static. Labeled "2005", the sky is solid blue. Labeled "2025", the sky is tiled with streaming logos: Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Hulu, YouTube and a Wendy's ad.

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