ST. PAUL, Minn. — Giant tech companies have suffered a setback in their tactics to bypass local opposition to hyper-scale data centers in and around small towns. The Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee of the Minnesota House unanimously passed a bill to prohibit non-disclosure agreements. Big Tech companies have used DNAs to silence county and municipal leaders from sharing details about these proposed plants with the public. The bill’s co-sponsors, Emma Greenman, D-Minneapolis, and Drew Roach, R-Farmington, said the public deserves to know everything that local elected officials are told about these plants being built in their backyards, especially lifestyle and environmental impact.
