This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won

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This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 8 days ago

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Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.

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