Pine Island, Minnesota, is the setting for a famously confounding poem by James Wright. It’s also the future home of a Google-owned data center that will use more energy than the town’s 3,800 residents, along with the rest of the state’s households. In this beautifully idiosyncratic essay, Thomas John Weber brings copies of Wright’s poem to Pine Island’s front doors and spots bars, to ask locals for their thoughts on home, the looming data-cente…
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