We are calling it: America has grown a dangerous new species of development project, a breed of deal that requires comprehensive new safeguards — right now.

Let’s call them “Dracula Deals.” These vampires don’t just need garlic; they require tall legislative guardrails!

Extractive, predatory mega-projects like data centers, microchip fabrication plants, electric-vehicle and EV battery factories — projects that consume huge amounts of land, water and electricity — are so disruptive and costly they require new rules.

Don’t believe me? On data centers alone, read the news from places like Memphis, Tucson, Atlanta, and Prince William County in Virginia — where data centers, with their voracious demands for power and transmission lines, water, land, air to pollute, and tax breaks — are promp

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