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          "title": "Developer withdraws Boulder City data center, signals move to federal land - Nevada Current",
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          "title": "This Nevada city is appealing a federally-approved data center it tried to reject - upr.org",
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          "title": "Federal Board Halts 167-MW Nevada Data Center Approval - Engineering News-Record",
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