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          "title": "Guest commentary: Idaho town sees major tech investment with new data center - Idaho Press",
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          "title": "Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet",
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          "title": "Meta Turns on $1.2B Data Center, Promising Water Efficiency - GovTech",
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          "title": "Meta turns on its $1.2B Idaho data center with promise of water efficiency - Coeur d'Alene Press",
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          "title": "Inside Meta’s new Kuna data center built for AI - Idaho News 6",
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          "summary": "Meta Kuna Data Center is online and fully operational",
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          "summary": "Meta backed three solar projects expected to add 645 megawatts to offset the data center's power consumption",
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          "summary": "The Kuna data center is 750,000 square feet",
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          "summary": "This is Meta's first data center in Idaho",
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          "summary": "This is Meta's 28th American data center",
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