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The Data Center Debate: a sourced argument map for America’s power-and-server fight

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A non-partisan guide to the US data center debate, organizing competing claims about electricity, taxes, jobs, water, pollution, and local opposition.

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The project organizes the data-center dispute into fourteen arguments, their counters, replies, source documents, a project-status map, tracked figures, and a report center. Its evidence policy records not only who produced a study but who paid for it, illustrated by the contrast between an industry-funded lobbying-group study and a state nonpartisan auditor’s work. The homepage also carries a dated Loudoun County update about a proposed one-year pause on data-center and substation applications.

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