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Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center

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Google has a difficult engineering problem at its enormous Fort Wayne data center: some of the land it wants to build on is protected wetlands. The search giant's solution is simple: build anyway. In the permitting documents for the not-evil-mastermind-sounding "Project Zodiac," Google's developer, Hatchworks, claims "meeting the project purpose and completely avoiding water resources was not feasible." — Read the rest The post Doing no "evil," Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center appeared first on Boing Boing .

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