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Assessing Social and Political Risk Before a Data Center Development Goes Public: Know Before You Go

A data center site can clear every technical test — land, power, connectivity, a credible path to build — and still fail at a county board meeting. No siting or energy dataset captures that risk. It lives in meeting minutes, voting records, local news, social media, and the memory of every project a community has already approved or fought. Flypower and iMiller Public Relations walk through how to read that layer before a project goes public, and what to do with what you find.