Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.

Someone brought a guillotine to a city council meeting in Salem, Oregon on July 27, 2026. Not a sign shaped like one. Not a drawing. According to community accounts and social media posts, an actual guillotine structure appeared at the protest outside Loucks Auditorium, where hundreds of residents had gathered to oppose a proposed multi-billion-dollar AI data center. Company representatives reportedly assessed the scene and left, citing safety concerns — though that detail hasn’t appeared in formal news coverage or official minutes.

  • raze2012@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It doesn’t mention anywhere that the guillotine was not functional.

    I just looked at the social media post. It’s a tiny scale guillotine. It’d struggle to slice anything larger than a carrot. The blade probably isn’t even real, nor made to come down.