ICN Sunday Morning: A Giant Data Center Comes to Town

Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and reporter Lee Hedgepeth as they discuss controversial plans to build a massive data center in the piney woods outside Birmingham. The 4.5-million-square-foot data center stands to be one of the largest in the country and could consume more than 10 times the amount of energy used by all residences in Birmingham each year. Lee explains how residents are reacting, what will happen to the woodlands targeted for the development, and why public officials are bound to secrecy.Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11... Explore Lee’s reporting: https://insideclimatenews.org/profile...Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate