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Speaker 1: now we're fifth nationally for data center development. We want

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Speaker 1: show this morning. Alex, welcome, are you brother having Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good to have you. So last night there was a

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Speaker 2: It's progressing, it's moving forward. There's a lot of community

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Speaker 2: more importantly, we have to know even who these people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what raised the red flags for you about

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Speaker 2: You know, these sites at Stewart and Killing Station, Killing

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Speaker 1: So this isn't completely going. Hey, we don't want a

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Speaker 2: No, I would say everyone is of the mindset where

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a critical point because in this

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Speaker 1: Okay. So the Economic Development Director signs this non disclosure

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Speaker 2: The debate on whether NDA is a standard practice or

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Speaker 2: What happens when you reduce competition, you harm the consumer.

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Speaker 2: Who's the consumer here, the residents of Adams County.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I get the argument, and you guys, you

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Speaker 1: officials there will switch to the jobs saying, they said, well,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, what about the element of what about then

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Speaker 1: Now? Yeah, But at the same time, you look at

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Speaker 1: Adams County right now? You know, you mentioned Columbus, Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: for reasons we don't The obvious reasons would be infrastructures

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've talked about this a lot of my show

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Speaker 2: Would say specifically where they're proposing it is, you know,

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Speaker 1: We do right? It's hard because you know, you're at

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Speaker 1: How do we coexist, I guess is a question. It's

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Speaker 1: a great case, Alex. We'll talk again in the future,

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And Scott, you know on behalf of the people

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Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, you hear that, you go. It doesn't really,

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Speaker 1: But we also have to live where these plans are too.

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