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Residents press Mason County fiscal court for answers about confidential data-center project
Summary
Residents at the July 15 Mason County Fiscal Court meeting pressed officials for public answers about a reportedly confidential data-center prospect, raising questions about NDAs, water and power use, noise, land purchases and potential displacement. County officials said legal confidentiality can apply to business prospects and that zoning and permitting would trigger public hearings.
Max Moran and several other residents used the fiscal-court public-comment period on July 15 to press elected officials for public information about a proposed data-center project they say is being negotiated in private.
"Have you signed a nondisclosure agreement in any aspect?" Moran asked, citing constituent concerns and documents he said came from the electric cooperative. Residents attributed a range of claims to those documents, including that the project could require about 2.2 gigawatts of electricity, use "millions of gallons" of water daily and need as much as 5,000 acres. Moran also said landowners had been offered up to $60,000 per acre, and he and others asked whether the county intended to use eminent domain to acquire land.
Judge McNeil and the court did not accept those assertions as county policy; they said no formal county…
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