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a collection of factual knowledge about something
we are putting together all the data we have obtained on the local housing market
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The other proposal considered at Tuesday’s meeting was to rezone a portion of land in the same area for a potential data center in the future.
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Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Dubbed Hyperion, the data center in Richland Parish will be Meta’s largest.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Our data comes from publicly available information.
—Southern California Weather Report, Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
When tech CEOs visited the White House to commit to steps to limit the impact of their data centers on retail power prices, they were mainly focused on generation, that is building their own new power plants so as not to take too much from the grid.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
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Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Dubbed Hyperion, the data center in Richland Parish will be Meta’s largest.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Our data comes from publicly available information.
—Southern California Weather Report, Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
When tech CEOs visited the White House to commit to steps to limit the impact of their data centers on retail power prices, they were mainly focused on generation, that is building their own new power plants so as not to take too much from the grid.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Data.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/data. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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