{"id":15575,"date":"2024-10-29T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15575"},"modified":"2024-10-29T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T13:26:34","slug":"how-a-data-center-divided-a-small-missouri-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15575","title":{"rendered":"How a Data Center Divided a Small Missouri Town"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They had already planted yard signs, volunteered at the farmers\u2019 market booth and signed each and every one of the petitions, so now the residents of Peculiar, Mo., took to the field outside their homes to pray.<\/p>\n

For years, that golden wheat had been the backdrop of this 6,000-person hamlet, best known as a pit stop on trips from Kansas City to the Ozarks. Now, it was a battleground between a tech giant\u2019s proposed data center and the rural community around it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFather God, we are Davids against Goliath,\u201d said Susan Wells, the group\u2019s prayer leader, that October night. \u201cWe pray for the Davids among us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The situation in Peculiar had not always been so precarious. When executives from Diode Ventures, the company developing the data center for its secret tech company client, last met with those residents, it was on a peaceful July night over wine slushies at the town\u2019s beloved winery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 500-acre data center campus, the executives said, would be a boon to the town, bringing in new jobs and over a billion dollars in tax revenue, most of which would go to the school district. All they needed was the land rezoned for industrial use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They had already planted yard signs, volunteered at the farmers\u2019 market booth and signed each and every one of the petitions, so now the residents of Peculiar, Mo., took to the field outside their homes to pray.For years, that golden wheat had been the backdrop of this 6,000-person hamlet, best known as a pit stop on trips from Kansas City to the Ozarks. Now, it was a battleground between a tech giant\u2019s proposed data center and the rural community around it.\u201cFather God, we are Davids against Goliath,\u201d said Susan Wells, the group\u2019s prayer leader, that October night. \u201cWe pray for the Davids among us.\u201dThe situation in Peculiar had not always been so precarious. When executives from Diode Ventures, the company developing the data center for its secret tech company client, last met with those residents, it was on a peaceful July night over wine slushies at the town\u2019s beloved winery.The 500-acre data center campus, the executives said, would be a boon to the town, bringing in new jobs and over a billion dollars in tax revenue, most of which would go to the school district. All they needed was the land rezoned for industrial use.Opposition signs appeared across Peculiar, Mo.A painting in City Hall.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15577,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15578,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions\/15578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}