The Baffler | N Rommel
From across the darkness of the GM lot, a soft wind blew. Someday soon, the data center may come. Humming, calculating, concocting deepfakes, writing college essays, chatting with the lonely and pulling us away from each other minute by minute, it is perhaps the best the architects of the modern economy can—or will—do for a growing number of American communities. It seems that way in Janesville, where Zoxx Social Club will be paved over, sealing in stone a simple promise: there will be no more life on the old General Motors site.