What's with all the secret data center agreements?
Often negotiations between data center developers and local officials are conducted behind closed doors, protected by NDAs. How can we have an informed debate, when we don’t know what’s on the table?
State & Local Innovation How We Found Eight Data Center Community Benefit Agreements and Why It Matters 08.11.26 | 5 min read | Text by Kate Garman Burns & Stephen Badea These days, data centers are the hot-button topic in policy circles everywhere. Between the explosion of AI and the sheer scale of some of these facilities, it seems like people cannot go a single day without hearing them come up in some capacity. Communities weighing a data center project are considering real opportunities: construction jobs, new tax revenue, and the promise of economic development that comes with a…
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