You might want to let the angry townspeople know because they're already passing symbolic measures and convincing the abuelas they're going to drain Lake Michigan to power these things:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/07/27/hawthorne-race-cours...

Isn't Chicago filled with rail yards full of humming diesel locomotives? I couldn't think of a bigger eyesore. You can't plant trees in a rail yard.

The present anti-datacenter hysteria reeks of the "5G mind control cancer machines" of a few years ago.

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warkdarrior 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> You can't plant trees in a rail yard.

Why not?

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perpetuallunch 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seen what a tree can do to a sidewalk?

You can step over or walk around cracked and buckled concrete.

Trains don’t appreciate having their rail ballast disturbed.

	▲	egormakarov an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think trains are ok with trees. I checked satellite view - there are a lot of rail tracks in Chicago going directly along tree lines. The rail yards indeed look like tracks on concrete with nothing else, but when I look at German ones - there are trees and bushes.

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tptacek 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The trains have a bad habit of hitting them.

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ekianjo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

because of... rails