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Chris Boyer

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 23, 2026
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Aug 1, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Chris Boyer/Lighthawk via MTFP

    How Montana’s ‘Right to Compute Act’ stymies data center regulation (opens the original)

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    Local officials say a first-in-the-nation state law is hamstringing the public’s power to regulate unpopular development. But while the goal of the public pushback was clear, county officials were less sure whether regulating the data center’s development was even legal. A new state law — 2025’s Right to Compute Act — had effectively tied county commissioners’ hands. “We are between a rock and a hard spot right now,” Yellowstone County Commission Chair Mark Morse said in a Septem

  2. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Chris Boyer/Lighthawk

    What a data center costs, and where the money lands (opens the original)

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    A hypothetical data center modeled by economists from a proposed facility in a rural part of Yellowstone County would employ about 500 temporary construction workers and another 250 long-term positions, according to a presentation in Helena Tuesday by the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research. The bureau presents two economic summits on Montana-specific economic issues each year. Earlier in 2026, BBER delivered an update on the well-being of Montana’s major industr

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