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          "title": "Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers - Futurism",
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          "title": "‘The Precedent Is Flint’: How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis - Rolling Stone",
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          "title": "Kotek’s push against data centers unlikely to slow expansion in Eastern Oregon, local officials say",
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          "title": "Group 7: Amazon Data Services Boardman campus, Boardman, Morrow County, OR: hbsslaw.com",
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          "title": "Report: Amazon buys 1,300 acres near Columbia River that could become a giant data center - GeekWire",
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