Energy and climateFinding
Kansas should pause construction of new large data centers.
Several large data centers have been proposed in Kansas, raising questions about electricity rates, water use and tax incentives. A pause would halt new projects while the state sets rules on those issues.
Cindy Holscher
These hyperscale data centers come into communities that suck up our water, that jack up utility rates and don't bring the promised jobs.
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If we, the government, don't say we gotta have these parameters, of course we can't expect big corporations to do it on their own
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