LAS CRUCES — Doña Ana County commissioners approved an unprecedented $165 billion industrial revenue bond to help finance a mammoth AI-training data center for Santa Teresa Friday.

As soon as the ordinance authorizing the bond passed on a 4-1 vote, the room erupted in anger that had been brewing for seven hours.

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