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Businessman who alleged Chinese backing of data center opponents, has apologized, and is being sued over the allegations.
Memphis City Council voted 7-5 to put off a data center moratorium until Oct. 20. For anyone financing the buildout that is a dated permitting risk, and Washington's China explanation does little to remove it.
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Kevin O'Leary's 9-gigawatt Wonder Valley data center won a unanimous county vote in Utah, then ran into residents its backers had not told. For an AI tenant comparing sites, the date the neighbors found out belongs in the approval file next to the vote.
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X says it found a 200,000-account Chinese bot farm, and that a few hundred of those accounts posted against data centers. The governor who halted some 1,800 Texas projects says his reasons were grid math and residents' bills.
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Local opposition has become a scheduling risk with a governor's signature on it. The industry's leaders cannot agree whether the cause is arithmetic, foreign propaganda, or their own conduct.
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DCD finds 80 percent of Democratic and Republican candidates for governor have taken a public stance on data centers, and only four candidates anywhere back the industry outright.
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