Commentary: Before You Say Yes to a Data Center, Listen to This Advice From Coal Country

Commentary: Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country

Data centers should be negotiated, not surrendered, by communities that know what they own

Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country • Kentucky Lantern

The mayor of Russell learned in June that a Barcelona company wanted to build a two-gigawatt data center on the old AK Steel site in his town. He learned it from a consultant’s email, and the consultant’s first concern was that the moratorium Russell had just passed might get in the way. That is how […]

Before you say yes to a data center, listen to this advice from coal country

By James BranscomeKentucky Lantern The mayor of Russell learned in June that a Barcelona company wanted to build a two-gigawatt data center on the old AK Steel site in his town. He learned it from a consultant’s email, and the consultant’s first concern was that the moratorium Russell had just passed might get in the […]