> MIDA executive director Paul Morris told county commissioners that the facility “will not take one electron” from the existing grid and could eventually feed surplus power back into it.

And when they do and the residents' electricity costs go up because of it (which is baffling to me; the companies that use it should pay a premium for it that offsets the residential use), I guess there's just nothing that could be done. Not. One. Thing.

in a California port city, there were newspaper headlines when a City Council swore to everyone that tearing down hundreds of good houses to put in a freeway to a far away transportation center "will benefit this great city" .. It is a historical laughing stock. Many neighborhoods are thick with foul diesel smoke for sixty years now, and the ordinary gardens and yards that were paved over, are long gone. The benefit was to the regional shippers, who grew truck traffic 4x then 40x.

Setting a reminder on my phone to come check back on this in five years.