After Missouri city approves $6B data center, angry voters get revenge at the polls
Voters in a small Missouri town booted four city council members who backed a $6 billion data center despite fierce local opposition.
Irate residents of Festus — a city of about 14,000 roughly 35 miles south of St. Louis — voted out four council members just days after they approved the controversial project.
Local opposition to the data center, which was set to be built on some 360 acres of land by investment firm CRG Clayco, had been building in the weeks leading up to the March 30 special meeting.
