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Data centers could generate $57B over next decade in Illinois if public backlash addressed, study says (opens the original)
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Over the next decade, data centers currently being planned for Illinois could generate $57 billion in new investment, create 120,000 jobs, and boost property tax revenue – mostly for schools – by $300 million per year. These are the headlines in a study released Thursday by a pair of labor-affiliated Illinois think tanks. The coming construction boom would build on the state’s existing role as a data center powerhouse. The Chicago region already ranks as the country’s third-largest data center m
From the Chicago suburbs to short line railroad companies, proposed merger heightens concerns (opens the original)
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When Karen Darch started agitating in 2007 for an underpass so U.S. Route 14 can pass beneath the Canadian National railroad tracks in Barrington, she had six children and no grandkids. Nineteen years later, as workers are shattering the affluent quiet of her suburban street by pounding retaining walls for the underpass into place, she has seven grandchildren. Darch says she can’t say how many grandchildren she’ll have when the half-mile, $94 million underpass is finally complete, hopefully by t
How to regulate data centers in Illinois at the center of latest proposal (opens the original)
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Even as a political backlash against data centers mushrooms across the U.S., a broad consensus on how to regulate them is emerging in Springfield, according to key corporate, labor and environmental lobbyists. Marc Poulos, a Springfield labor quarterback, is circulating a three-page proposal that would require data centers to use closed-loop cooling to preserve water, speed up grid connections for data centers that use renewable power, roll back some biometric privacy protections and restore dat
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