Cave City, Kentucky is a popular tourist destination, as it’s home to fascinating national parks like Mammoth Cave. But even natural beauty apparently isn’t enough to stop companies from wanting to plop down their massive AI data center. Now, a Kentucky man is using TikTok to spread the word.
“They’re about to dig up a cemetery,” TikTok user Bigshipoppin says in his recent video. Currently, there’s an ongoing legal battle that could open the floodgates for data centers to be built in Cave City. And locals are already trying to “block this data center” from being built.
As of right now, there’s a one-year moratorium in place to prevent data centers from being built. However, they’re already looking into zoning and going through the legal process to make this dystopian dream a reality. According to Big, when that happens, “They’re pretty much gonna move several people.”
Big’s explains that many families could be affected by the city’s decision to move forward with the data centers. These families paid for their plots, but in the end, they’ll keep pushing forward, and families will be the ones who lose out. Not to mention the horrific trauma of seeing your family’s graves being upended.
To this, Big offers some advice to people who have loved ones buried in Cave City: “You definitely need to get on it. You definitely need to be complaining to your magistrate, your local government, anybody that’ll listen.”
People online object to the data centers being built
Given how much hate AI gets, it’s unsurprising to see such a pushback from people online, especially with the data centers themselves being reported as loud and cost-inefficient. Not to mention using an obscene amount of water and energy just to run.
“What bothers me most, people don’t want it and it’s forced on us anyways,” reads one of the top comments on Big’s TikTok video. Another commenter asked an astute question, wondering why there was a need for “all these data centers.” This started a thread, with the general consensus being that people don’t, but “disgusting rich need them to ruin us.”
“Wait. People purchased those plots with money. They can’t do that,” another top commenter wrote. Strangely enough, one person said that the same attorney “involved with moving the cemetery is also on city counsel.” How is that not a conflict of interest?
There was also talk of people urging the affected families to sue. Hopefully, Tim’s video reaches more eyes, especially the family’s.
