Regardless of how much energy they use, and how much carbon and methane pollutes the atmosphere, and what water it pollutes, and what wildlife it displaces, or what people it disturbs.
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Data centers proposed on federal land in Eastern Oregon, Western states
A data center proposed on 100 acres of BLM land near Hermiston would be the first on federal public land in Oregon and one of a dozen proposed in six Western states.