Letter to the editor: Keep corporate greed out of Portage County

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Shalersville, Ravenna, and now Streetsboro have all passed moratoriums on data centers, but a moratorium is only a delay. One hyperstructure built in a neighboring county on the scale of Utah’s recently approved 62 square mile data center (read that number again) will overshadow any local ban or moratorium. What we need is a blanket ban of large-scale data centers across the state, to give each small town its power back to say “not here, not our water, not our health.” Despite overwhelming local support for such a ban, success is not assured.