Finally,
I found this yesterday, and was entranced.
Seems like they got the message.
Last month, representatives from Verrus, a California-based data center development company, made the trek up to the city of 180,000 to pitch a planned $5.1 billion server farm that would move into 75 acres of state-owned property. According to the Salem Reporter, they were greeted by hundreds of citizens, most of whom showed up to tell Verrus to shove it. One person in particular got attention: a guy who put a guillotine on a trailer and rode it around outside of the Salem Public Library’s Loucks Auditorium where the meeting was taking place,
It seems the message was received. Per the Salem Reporter, Verrus’ representatives left the hearing early because they “did not feel safe.” Some pro-data center voices did stay, including Aaron Stickney, the co-founder of SilverSphere Capital that is financing the project. When he spoke, members of the public reportedly jeered and called him a liar.
Today I tried to search for that article again. I couldn't remember the name "Gizmodo", but searching "data center guillotine" did the trick. I got plenty of results, but this one:
Tom's? Hardware? There's a place called Tom's Hardware, and they're repoting on the Salem data-center-guillotine story? Is it because they think it'll help sell hardware? Do they have guillotine KITS?!!
