"This is the railroad coming and deciding to come through some communities, and other communities that they don't go through cease to exist. This is Route 66 when the interstates came in and those communities and those businesses died because they weren't on the trade routes. Hyperscale data centers are the same exact opportunity for communities."
Context & source notes
Provenance: Quoted; content date; reported from elsewhere.
Setting: Power MO summit.
Primary source: St. Louis Public Radio (opens in a new tab).
