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How This City Beat Google — And Won the First Permanent Data Center Ban in America
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2:50Now PlayingWhen a secretive tech giant (later revealed to be Google) got St. Charles to sign nondisclosure agreements to ram through a data center, the Missouri city rose up to beat the project back.
Now the city, not half an hour from St. Louis, has enacted the first indefinite data center ban in the country.
Here's how they did it.
Host/Co-producer: @danliebs
Co-producer: Court Fuller
Editor: Kenneth Kerr
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