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Locals blindsided by Trump's secretive plans for public lands: 'Unholy alliance'

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The Trump administration is quietly working to hand over vast stretches of America's public lands to billionaires and technology companies — and the scale is bigger than known, according to a Friday investigation by The Washington Sun. According to locals who would be affected, they have been kept completely in the dark. The Bureau of Land Management is reviewing at least " 12 data center and infrastructure proposals covering more than 17,600 acres" across six Western states — Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming — the outlet reported, citing public right-of-way records. Many of the proposals have never been publicly disclosed and aren't easily found on BLM's own website. In Utah, nuclear startup Valar Atomics is reportedly pushing two data centers powered by small nuclear reactors, including a sprawling 10,200-acre site near Green River. Arizona has four proposed projects that could gobble up more than 3,000 acres of public land. The catch: local officials in several state

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