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This million-square-foot data center would be the biggest in the state. How local leaders are challenging it.
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In April, developers of the massive Imperial Data Center cleared a major hurdle after Imperial County Supervisors approved a plan to combine several tracts of land for the nearly one-million-square-foot facility in rural Southern California. It would be the largest data center in […]
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According to Palo Alto Online’s source item, This million-square-foot data center would be the biggest in the state. How local leaders are challenging it., This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In April, developers of the massive Imperial Data Center cleared a major hurdle after Imperial County Supervisors approved a plan to combine several tracts of land for the nearly one-million-square-foot facility in rural Southern California. It would be the largest data center in […]
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