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          "date": "2026-08-25",
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          "title": "Upstate leaders and public clash over future of data centers - WYFF",
          "url": "https://www.wyff4.com/article/data-center-debate-noise-development/73660750",
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          "title": "Citizens group lawyers seek injunction to halt data center construction - Greenville Online",
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          "title": "Lawsuit targets Spartanburg County data center project, demands public planning review - FOX Carolina News",
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        {
          "title": "Could data center challenge change the landscape in South Carolina? - WRDW",
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        },
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          "title": "Data center developer wants to build own power plant. Does it need SC’s approval? - The State",
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          "date": "2026-08-06",
          "source_tier": 4
        },
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          "title": "South Carolina approves nearly $3 billion data center in Spartanburg County despite lawsuit - Yahoo",
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          "date": "2026-08-28",
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          "title": "Spartanburg council committee holds hearing on data centers, presses for credible evidence - FOX Carolina News",
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          "source_tier": 4
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        {
          "title": "DATA 2: Spartanburg data center not subject to public power plant rules, SC regulators rule - The Clinton Chronicle",
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          "date": "2026-09-10",
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          "title": "Judge punts decision on Spartanburg data center construction",
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          "date": "2026-09-17",
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        {
          "title": "Spartanburg data center gets OK from SC regulators to generate 457 megawatts - Post and Courier",
          "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/spartanburg-data-center-gets-ok-164500863.html",
          "publisher": "Post and Courier",
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          "title": "Special meeting called over data center construction in Spartanburg County - Yahoo",
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          "title": "Amount of water needed to operate Spartanburg Data Center more than double original estimate - WSPA 7News",
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          "date": "2026-09-21",
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          "title": "Spartanburg County data center ban advances. NorthMark to be included?",
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          "title": "South Carolina Public Service Commission approves nearly $3 billion data center - WYFF",
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          "title": "Spartanburg data center not subject to public power plant rules, SC regulators rule - South Carolina Daily Gazette",
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          "title": "They started building a $2.8 billion data center and no one really knew about it - selc.org",
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          "title": "Environmental group seeks to halt development of $3B data center in Spartanburg County - WYFF",
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        },
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          "title": "Environmental group files court order to stop Spartanburg County data center project - FOX Carolina News",
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          "date": "2026-08-20",
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          "summary": "NorthMark's Valara Data Center revised water use to 1.2 million gallons per day average, up to 1.6 million maximum, up from original 459,000 gallons per day",
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          "summary": "Higher water demand figures were provided to Spartanburg Water on February 11, 2026, as part of the project's Large Water Meter Questionnaire",
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          "summary": "South Carolina Department of Environmental Services granted permit September 18 for 11 natural gas turbines generating additional 408 megawatts, bringing total capacity to 457 megawatts",
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          "summary": "Construction on the Valara site has already begun and continues while court considers the classification decision.",
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          "summary": "State Circuit Court judge delayed decision on Valara data center construction in Spartanburg.",
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          "summary": "Spartanburg County Planning Commission voted last month to halt the stalled Lighthouse data center project.",
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          "summary": "The meeting lasted five hours with public, experts, and council members debating a data center project",
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          "summary": "NorthMark Strategies converting Kohler kitchen and bath manufacturing plant into $2.8 billion computing center on 300 acres",
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          "summary": "Valara project became public in March 2025 when Spartanburg County began negotiating tax incentives for project creating 27 jobs",
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          "summary": "NorthMark data center construction continues on South Pine Street",
          "source_url": "https://www.foxcarolina.com/2026/09/09/spartanburg-council-committee-holds-hearing-data-centers-presses-credible-evidence/",
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          "summary": "NorthMark was approved about two years ago through a public process including three readings and a public hearing",
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          "summary": "Valara Holdings data center initially approved as minor project, now subject to community opposition and legal challenge",
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          "source_date": "2026-08-28",
          "summary": "South Carolina approved nearly 3 billion dollar data center in Spartanburg County",
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          "source_tier": 4
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          "summary": "LightHouse Data Centers proposed a project covering about 151 acres along Jones Road with an approximately 200,000 square foot building",
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          "summary": "The project would have created about 50 jobs",
          "source_url": "https://www.wyff4.com/article/spartanburg-county-blocks-data-center/73526196",
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