In February 2026, Ben Murray’s plans were cut short by a snowstorm. He was scheduled to drive up from Nashville, TN, to Manchester, the Ohio village where his mother was born, to start building a house. He and his fiancée planned to build on his great-grandmother’s farmland, nestled against the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. By the time he arrived in Manchester two weeks later, news had emerged: a developer planned to build a data cente…