We Investigated Why Big Tech Is Handing Out $10,000 Checks To This Small Town
From More Perfect Union.
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Amazon is spending $1 billion to make people okay with data centers in their backyards.
In one Pennsylvania town every resident was offered $10,000, in another landowners were offered millions.
Big Tech can't sneak data centers in any more, so they try to buy people out
Producer Dan Lieberman
Supervising Producer Brady Welch
Editor: Seth Dalton
Videographers
Nick Weiss
David Benhaim
Motion Designer
Gerald Lane
Video Production Manager
Isabel Atalaya
Video Production Coordinator
Jodi Clemens
Production Management Associate
Astrid Dong
Video Production Fellow
Jasmine Pérez
Post Production Fellow
Daria Nastasia
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In one Pennsylvania town every resident was offered $10,000, in another landowners were offered millions.
Big Tech can't sneak data centers in any more, so they try to buy people out
Producer Dan Lieberman
Supervising Producer Brady Welch
Editor: Seth Dalton
Videographers
Nick Weiss
David Benhaim
Motion Designer
Gerald Lane
Video Production Manager
Isabel Atalaya
Video Production Coordinator
Jodi Clemens
Production Management Associate
Astrid Dong
Video Production Fellow
Jasmine Pérez
Post Production Fellow
Daria Nastasia
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More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
To support our independent journalism, subscribe, donate, and follow our other pages through the links below:
- Help fund our reporting: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mpu-splash
- Substack: https://substack.perfectunion.us/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social
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