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Controversial data center is dead. For now.

The developer behind a 440-acre data center proposal in St. Charles has withdrawn plans amid opposition. Hours after the plug was pulled , project details emerged that showed the data center would have threatened the environment more than previously disclosed, my colleague Ethan Colbert reports.

And the Missouri Department of Conservation said it was given little time to do a review, finding out later that the proj

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