DT #680 Inside America's Largest Data Center Project With New York Times Reporter Eli Tan
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DT #680 Inside America's Largest Data Center Project With New York Times Reporter Eli Tan

B1IntermediateSeptember 2, 202628 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

What happens when a massive data center project moves forward at unprecedented speed? In this episode of Develop This!, Dennis Fraise sits down with Eli Tan, New York Times reporter, to explore the scale, speed, and controversy surrounding Meta's massive data center project in Louisiana. Eli discusses how quickly the project moved from site selection to construction, why Louisiana was chosen, and the role of secrecy and NDAs in the development process. The conversation also examines community reactions, economic benefits, environmental concerns, and the growing tension between attracting major investments and maintaining public...

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Welcome to Develop This, the number one podcast for economic and community development professionals with your host, Dennis Frazee. Welcome back to another edition of the Develop This podcast. As Dennis, as you know, I've been doing a special series I call Why Does Everyone Hate

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Datacenters? So to do that, I've spoken to a wide variety of people from the economic development field from all over. And so I've been doing a lot of research

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and that led me to several articles in New York Times and to a specific reporter, Eli Tan, who covers data centers for New York Times. So I invited him on the show and he said,

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