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Amazon Pulls Out of Problematic Plans for Minnesota Data Center

May 27, 2025--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)-- Amazon.com Incorporated (Seattle, Washington) has scrapped plans for a data center planned in Becker, Minnesota, near Xcel Energy Incorporated's (Minneapolis, Minnesota) retiring Sherburne County (Sherco) coal-fired power plant. Certain aspects of the project have raised eyebrows, from the sale of the land to Amazon to the company petitioning for environmental regulations to be bypassed.

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