Kearney, Nebraska just approved a 368-megawatt data center replacing a bitcoin mine on the same 5-0 vote that…
The vote does two things at once.
What’s happening right now — and what it actually means.
The vote does two things at once.
Termites have no interest in a shopping bag.
Tennessee lawmakers do not know how much revenue the state gives up each year to data center sales tax breaks.
What the state has not published is an aggregate estimate of the state and local sales and use tax revenue that qualifying projects will avoid.
Everyone knows roughly how much sleep they got last night.
The distinction matters because the current pause came from a court order, not from a Westlake moratorium.
The moratorium would not touch the Google data center already under construction in southeast Fort Wayne.
Democratic incumbent Sami Scheetz cast the no vote.
According to Associated Press reporting republished by SFGATE, several people were injured before law-enforcement officers stopped him.
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