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Commission rejects resolution urging school-board review of former Carver School site for data centers; separate travel proposal fails
Summary
A proposal to ask the school board to consider the former George Washington Carver School site for data center development failed after commissioners split on the approach; a later motion to fund a fact-finding trip to Shelby County, Tenn., also failed.
The Caddo Parish Commission voted down a resolution that would have requested the (as spoken in transcript) school board consider the former George Washington Carver School site for potential data-center development.
Vice President Ken Epperson, the resolution's sponsor, described the site as larger than a competing West Freeport location and argued it could attract economic development and use water from the Red River or Wallace Lake. "We…
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