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We Investigated Why Big Tech Is Handing Out $10,000 Checks To This Small Town

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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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