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Family in front if their taco shop holding a Business of the Month sign from the Richland Parish Chamber of Commerce. Headline reads: "We opened a taco shop because Meta is building an AI data center nearby. Now 40% of our business is tied to it."
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Rayville has been a small community for Tim Allen’s whole life, and it's been in decline over the last several years. The town has a lot of people whose children are moving out, and they usually don't come back. As Allen grew up, downtown Rayville had multiple businesses, hardware stores, and clothing stores. One by one, they shut down until only a couple of stores were left. Since Meta's announcement, he’s seen old businesses revitalize and new ones open, including his own. Allen opened Holy Tacos because Meta was coming to town. Allen is very sensitive to both sides of the AI data center debate. He says the economic growth and development there is undeniable, and so is the tension. There's tension among people whose lives are being changed because they are beside it and they didn't want it. Read more about how Meta’s largest data center is affecting the small town’s economy at the link in our bio. As told to Lauren Edmonds (Credit: Tim Allen) #datacenters #tacos #smallbusiness

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@sojonz Whitest tacos ever

@vanessabogojel Duhh😂😂

@irie.ideas This isn’t the flex you think it is

@rab_m Where’s that paid partnership tag huh?

@ivacaminando I am going to unfollow BI.This is too much propaganda. 💩

@hamptonceramics All for money shit on ur home town ummm no

@hey_tsogo Time to unfollow

@hammoneggz Didn’t know computer processors ate tacos

@ianexplainstech Read the room BI, there’s nothing to celebrate here

@leadgen Holy Tacos existing because Meta's largest data center came to Rayville is the most unexpected supply chain in small business history.

@osvaldorayaa Let Tim know that computers don’t buy tacos, and there’s no significant long term labor or economic growth tied to Data Centers…

@luigiswashbuckle Flawed and only temporary. Enjoy 😉

@jolie.hansen Business Insider? More like Bootlicker Insider.

@michael____good Paid account

@maritheaiarchitect Wow! I'm in the AI field, and this is Another Level of PROPAGANDA. 😬

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