Local View: Say 'yes' to jobs, 'no' to hyperscale data centers

Local View: Say 'yes' to jobs, 'no' to hyperscale data centers

Something’s not right in Hermantown. At the end of January, four of our neighbors quietly sold their rural, residential Hermantown properties. The properties were purchased by Harmony Group LLC for a combined $5.9 million, even though their total assessed value for property taxes was $1.7 million. While the property sales don’t necessarily mean a proposed hyperscale data center project is moving forward, residents are concerned. There is a lawsu…