How Big Tech uses NDAs to hide AI data center details from Americans

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Mason County — a rural community in northeastern Kentucky bordering the Ohio River — is among dozens of U.S. localities weighing data center projects that residents say have been shrouded in secrecy.Michael Swensen for NBC News

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Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.

On a March afternoon in Mason County, Kentucky, Dr. Timothy Grosser and his son Andy sat across the table from three men who came with an offer: $10 million for the 250-acre farm where they’d lived and worked for nearly four decades.

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