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Start free trial →The Prairie Farm Podcast · October 2026
The hosts had joked that people who complain about data centers online are heavy internet users. Inman lays out her pragmatic position: engage the companies and negotiate local benefits rather than argue about a ban.
If you've used it to make a stupid little cartoon of you and your dog, you gotta go. Come on. What do we do? What are we doing? My
wife, actually, I realized this after I was made a big deal about this on a podcast. She paid $9.99 for an app that will take pictures and turn them anime. And I was like, I complained about this on a podcast and now I'm a hypocrite.
I mean, I think that's the truth of the matter. Like, I don't know how moving forward, we don't have data centers, right? So I don't know if arguing about whether or not we have data centers is really productive because especially like you said, if we're all arguing about it on Facebook or Twitter or something like that. So what is the thing that we should be doing? We should be finding out what does this mean for our community. I mean, you think about like some of the major revolutions, the industrial revolution, even when we put like electricity into factories and everything and all the sort of societal changes that started. Well, when you look at data centers, yeah, you'll have some energy grid improvements, et cetera, but there's no like lasting infrastructure that's like that we're being left with, right? If somehow data centers finally or you know went away or there was some evolution. So if they're making an investment in water, why would we not use that to rebuild our water infrastructure in a way that works for us to solve the issues? Exactly. Because we're going to, it's, it's the newest revolution and we're not going to stop it. And we all have to admit that. So if you're anti-data center, I get it, but if you're telling me…
Right. You know, data centers, if you go back in their lineage, their great, great, great, great grandfather went to Grinnell College. Oh, really? Robert Noyce. Yeah, we just talked about this with Tommy because he went to Grinnell. But Robert Noyce invented the microchip. He figured out how to get…
complex feelings. The attitude of just
crossing your arms and turning your back just doesn't move the needle at all. It's a bigger holdup. And the thing I worry about the most is with anything like this. I was thinking about this with like electric cars, electric vehicles and stuff like that. It's the gold rush mentality of vacuum up as…