Companies are demanding states cut red tape. Data center-wary voters may think differently
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- Announcing a $20 billion economic development deal last June — the largest, by far, in Pennsylvania history — Gov.
- Yet in the year since, it has also caused Shapiro no shortage of grief.
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Announcing a $20 billion economic development deal last June — the largest, by far, in Pennsylvania history — Gov. Josh Shapiro couldn't help but crow a bit. "This is the kind of deal that every state wants, every state is out competing for," he said. "But Pennsylvania won this deal. We got it done."
Yet in the year since, it has also caused Shapiro no shortage of grief. That is because it involves two massive Amazon data centers in the state for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. And public opinion on data centers is souring considerably.