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Resident demands transparency as city schedules developer open house for proposed data center
Summary
A resident criticized the city’s outreach on a proposed closed‑loop data center and asked for specific water‑use figures; council members announced an open house Monday (3:30–5:30 p.m., Midwest Genealogy Center) and a taped study session where the developer will present and a citizen engagement committee will be formed.
Mike Talcott, a longtime Independence resident, told the City Council on Jan. 5 that he and other residents have received inadequate responses about a proposed “closed‑loop” data center and the related plan to restart a gas‑fired power plant.
“I ask among other things for specifics on how much water usage the proposed data center would need and in the light of information from the article, how much water would the new power plant then need?” Talcott said, later adding, “Since you seem to be unable to answer basic questions like how many gallons of water would each…
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