Almanac - Google Data Center - Twin Cities PBS Kaomi Lee on the secrecy over “Project Loon” and bipartisan support for transparency.

🤖 Google’s proposed hyperscale data center in Hermantown advanced under NDAs, hiding its impacts to water & power use. Bipartisan momentum is pushing to ban these kind of NDAs & ensure full environmental review. Minnesotans deserve answers.

#NoMoreNDAs #DataCenters #MNLeg #MNPower #HermantownMN

Hermantown officials deceived citizens, manipulated public process to pave way for data center On Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, the Hermantown City Council will vote on whether to change the zoning in t... A subscription is required to access this article. Subscribe or click login below: Login

Intrigued about what reason the city will use for pursuing a project the city's citizens don't want. "Hundreds" of letters in opposition to the #datacenter seems like a lot given the population of #HermantownMN is ~10k.

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