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From the front window of her house, Breanne Kidd once watched the sun rise over farmland as she sipped coffee before toddlers arrived at her home daycare. Over the past year, that view has been replaced by cranes, steel and dust as work crews build Meta's 800-acre Bowling Green data center. More alarming was the appearance of something Kidd hadn't been told about: construction of a large natural gas power plant meant to serve the project.
The plant is one of dozens of large, off-grid power projects being approved rapidly and often under a cover of secrecy across the United States to supply the tech industry's booming demand for powering data centers, according to a review of regulatory filings and interviews with public officials, residents, researchers and company executives.
从自家前窗望去，布里安娜·基德曾经一边喝着咖啡，一边看着太阳在农田上升起——那时日托的孩子们还没到。但过去一年里，那片视野已经被起重机、钢筋和尘土取代，施工队正在建设Meta占地800英亩的Bowling Green数据中心。更让她警觉的是，她从未被告知的一件事：一座大型天然气发电厂正在建设中，专门为这个项目供电。
这座电厂是全美数十个大型离网电力项目之一，这些项目获批迅速且往往在保密状态下推进，以满足科技行业对数据中心日益高涨的电力需求。据对监管文件和采访记录调查显示，这些信息来源于公共官员、居民、研究人员和公司高管等多方。
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