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August 21, 2025

Missouri Community Defeats Secretive Project to Build Massive AI Data Center
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St. Charles, Missouri, has become the latest community to fight off
plans to build a massive AI data center. The developer of the project
withdrew the plans this week amid growing community opposition to the
secretive project. The community never even learned which company was
behind the proposal.


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