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Docs
The investigation's long-form prose, migrated from docs/ into the
site (issue #69). It's network-global — the method and analysis behind the record,
not per-site data — so it reads the same files as-is, rewriting their cross-links
into the new sections.
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Research dossier — A synthesis of everything deconstructed from the record — the actors, the corridor, the case.
18 min read
12 essays
150 min end to end
12 published essays, 32,913 words — counted from the bodies this build renders. The collection carries no publication dates, so nothing here is ordered by recency.
Reports
Reports
End use & workloads — what the facility is for
The customer is known (Google); the use is not. What the Select-Committee record establishes about hyperscale vs colocation vs federal enclaves — and the open question of who can use the Lima campus.
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Reports
The defense nexus — what the corridor shows, and what it can't
A defense plant nearby, a developer cleared to SECRET, an industry that hosts the CIA — three true facts that don't, combined, make a finding. The sharpest open question, held open.
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Reports
Toxics and the corridor — the river the campus joins
The campus discharges into a river that is already 93% treated effluent at low flow, in a corridor carrying the county's heaviest industrial toxic load. What RSEI screening shows, what it can't measure, and the assimilative question the record leaves open.
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The load and the grid — a city's worth of demand, and who carries it
A single campus equal to ~5–6% of its utility's entire retail load, for ~50 jobs — load, not jobs. The headline “313 MW” is backup generation (and redacted in the final permit); “behind-the-meter” is a claim, not a fact. What the record carries, and who pays to carry the load.
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Reports
The economic ledger — what the deal costs, modeled where the record is silent
A 15-year public ledger of the deal: ~$45M–$90M in forgone tax for ~50 jobs (≈0.1% of a shrinking county). Four figures the record withholds — the building share, the job count, the school terms, the equipment spend — are modeled as a band across scenarios rather than blanked or guessed.
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The record
Record
Research dossier
A synthesis of everything deconstructed from the record — the actors, the corridor, the case.
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Record
Mandamus analysis
Legal analysis of the public-records mandamus action.
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Record
Proponent analysis
A neutral, precise read of the proponent submissions to the Select Committee.
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The environment
Environment
Hydrology — Tier-0 findings
Tier-0 municipal water-flow screening — the prose companion to the water-balance dashboard.
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Environment
Economics — demand & public benefits
The demand-side companion to Hydrology: regional cloud-consumer demand and the benefits extended to it.
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