Article by:
MATT MCKINNEY
, Star Tribune
The bracing chill of a Minnesota winter doesn’t
make for alluring tourism slogans, but there is an industry beyond
dogsledding in which it’s a selling point: data centers.
Selling all
that cold air to tech companies that need to keep towers of computers
from overheating has become the work of people like Tom Lambrecht,
manager of economic development services for the utility cooperative
Great River Energy.
“It’s hard to get a professional volleyball league to come up here, but we can get a data center,” said Lambrecht.
That’s the
hope, anyway, of an increasing number of Minnesota cities from North
Mankato to St. Cloud who see a long-term boost to property tax revenues
in data centers — the places where all of the information on the
Internet gets stored. More here.
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