Who bankrolls Emporia’s data center bid is the $3 million question. The answer is sought in court.

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 13, 2026

Words: 2,049

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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Thank God for open courts.

Secrecy has been a hallmark of the data center assault on rural America, and few subjects have been as secret — or as enigmatic — as the money behind the proposed “digital campus” for my town of Emporia, at the edge of the Flint Hills in east central Kansas. The stakes are enormous, and the fight over a thousand recently annexed and largely pastoral acres at the western edge …

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