When Bessemer, Alabama, considered approving a massive new data center project earlier this year, there were very few public details about what, exactly, was being proposed — or how local elected officials in the historic, majority-Black city were negotiating with the project’s backers. That’s because a number of city leaders, including Mayor Kenneth Gulley, signed a strict non-disclosure agreement with the developers behind Project Marvel, a p…
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