Over 100 people attended an event hosted by MEIC and partners discussing the proposed data center in Broadview, Montana.
By: Juliet Macur, New York Times
Questions were racing through Ms. Solberg’s head later that month as she sat among more than 100 people in an auditorium at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, where the local activist, Cari Olson, and several environmental experts spoke about the recent wave of data center activity in Montana.
At least three large data centers and many smaller ones have been proposed for the state, lured by tax breaks, vast open land and Gov. Greg Gianforte, who has tried to make Montana a hub for A.I. So many people came to the meeting that some were stuck in the hallway, trying to listen in.
“People are very upset,” Anne Hedges, executive director of the Montana Environmental Information Center, a nonprofit that hosted the gathering and others around the state, later said. “We are seeing a response that, in my 32 years, I’ve never seen.”
