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The Town That Wants a Data Center Next Door - The Atlantic

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Maine was about to ban data centers. Why did one town stop it?

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 36:49 Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Opposition to data-center construction is the bipartisan issue of the moment—70 percent of Americans are against construction in their communities. Recently, New York passed the country’s first statewide data-center-construction moratorium. Maine was supposed to have been the first. For this week’s episode of Radio Atlantic , I traveled to Maine to understand why one tiny town killed what would have been America’s first data-center moratorium. The following is a transcript of the episo

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