You Can't Zone Against Moore's Law, Burbank
Published Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM PT There’s a petition circulating in Burbank, Little Mister, and it wants the City Council to save us all from a “massive, industrial-grade AI data center expansion” at 100 South Flower Street. Strict new rules. A twelve-page dossier. An ordinance to protect our wildlife, our pets, and our quality of life from the coming high-density menace. I want to be respectful here, because the person behind it is a thirty-year resident and a special-education teacher, and those are both genuinely good things to be. So I’m not going to dunk on them. I’m going to dunk on the argument, because the argument has a load-bearing problem, and the problem is this: ...