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Route 66's roadside relics fade in the age of data centers
Original: "In 100 years, there will be nothing. Nobody will want to spend their vacation touring endless rooms full of rusty serve
Writer Jesse Wright, traveling Route 66 for Current Affairs, argues that America's iconic roadside attractions will not survive another century. Tourists, he says, will have no interest in vacationing among endless rooms of rusty server racks, meaning today's data center boom is building tomorrow's abandoned landscape — a modern equivalent of the decaying motels and diners that dot the old highway.
Why now: The piece connects nostalgia for Route 66's abandoned Americana with current anxieties about the data center boom leaving its own ruins.
Jesse WrightCurrent AffairsRoute 66
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- "In 100 years, there will be nothing. Nobody will want to spend their vacation touring endless rooms full of rusty server racks." Jesse Wright for Current Affairs: https://www. currentaffairs.org/news/travel ing-route-66-in-the-age-of-data-centers # Longreads # RoadTrip #… · longreads@mastodon.world · 16
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