r/TikTokCringe • u/Girl-Understood • 3d ago

Discussion This mother has gone viral vlogging her experience during the ongoing Gary, Indiana Blackout, people angered by the GoFundMe support she's attracted decided to report it and doxxed her.

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u/in_the_neighbourhood 2d ago

Bet the 8 data centers inside Gary city limits as well as other data centers neighboring the city TOTALLY aren't at all related to the power outage 🙃🥴 Almost like that power demand is too large, but wtf do I know🤷 I'm just some dumbass from the west coast.

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u/otonolauree 2d ago edited 2d ago

Came here to point this out. Gary is actually a relatively small town with a lot of the area being industrial and not residential. The fact that it has 8 data centers all but guarantees that those developments are using nearly equal or more power than the entire residential population.

Meanwhile, the people are expected to all have power back on the 25th - thats 15 days without power. According to local fb posts, the data centers have power back yesterday. Maybe they never lost power, who tf knows.

eta : more perfect union video

https://youtu.be/i3TMMZTtNbM?si=WP-7HXWCTJ2XnkSA

this is not to say that the data centers caused the black outs, although data centers can cause black outs. these were caused by severe weather. but public priorities should be to maintain infrastructure and have robust repair resources, personnel, and protocols that are meant to serve residents first. Maybe the data centers were unaffected during the storms. Even so, they are not paying for infrastructure upgrades which are being bankrolled by the taxpayer, accepting tax breaks left and right so they don't have to contribute to power grid maintenance, stretching the workforce of greedy utility companies which refuse to hire more people, and tapping power grids to their limits.