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Satellite view of the proposed 230-acre Saxum data center site in Northwest Jackson

The Moratorium That Wasn't: Inside Jackson's Data Center Shell Game

Mississippi's first local data center moratorium passed with a unanimous exemption for 1,100 acres of airport land the city can't tax. Three separate developers are moving on Jackson simultaneously while the council pretends to pause.

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August 17, 2026

Amazon Web Services data center in Boardman, Oregon, with massive industrial buildings under construction against a cloudy sky

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Boardman: Amazon's Data Center Empire vs. a Town's Drinking Water

How Amazon's data centers supercharged a decades-old water contamination crisis in rural Oregon, poisoned the groundwater of a farming community, paid a fraction of a penny in damages, and kept expanding.

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June 15, 2026

Aerial photograph of the Boardman Coal Plant showing the main power station building with its tall smokestack, surrounded by agricultural land near the Columbia River in eastern Oregon.

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From Coal to Code: How Boardman Traded One Poison for Another — and a Town Is Paying the Price

Oregon's last coal plant closed in 2020. What replaced it — Amazon data centers — has poisoned the town's water, corrupted its government, and paid a fraction of a penny on the dollar in damages. The extraction never stopped. Only the name of the miner changed.

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June 7, 2026