Data centers in unincorporated Santa Cruz County? Just don’t ask the voters. That was the majority decision Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors, which voted 3-2 to beat back a proposal to let voters weigh in on any artificial intelligence data centers that could be built in the future. While there are not currently […]
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