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Carlton County, Minnesota just froze every new data center project for a full year after residents warned a single hyperscale campus could pull up to 1,000 acres of farmland out of production

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The Direct Message Tension: A rural Minnesota county with no zoning standards for data centers is watching a Google campus advance one county over, and its residents asked for a pause before its code got tested by a hyperscaler. Noise: The easy framing is anti-tech NIMBYism or pro-development boosterism, depending on the audience. Neither captures what the ordinance actually does. Direct Message: Carlton County has bought itself twelve months to…
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dmnews.com broke the news in United States on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
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