Missouri residents recall a council member who voted for tax breaks for a giant SI data center
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SI infrastructure is now running up against not chips but the consent of neighbors: for construction to continue, companies will have to convince people that it benefits them too.
In Independence, nearly 70% of voters in the district voted to recall city council member Jon Perkins. In March the council approved $6 billion in tax breaks for a $150 billion data center by the Dutch company Nebius, to be powered by a restored old power plant. Two other supporters of the project lost elections in April, and the anti-data-center group on Facebook has 115 thousand members. The episode is part of a nationwide wave of discontent over data center construction that is already affecting the midterm elections.
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