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Must implement data center clean-energy payment mechanism by Dec. 31
Massachusetts towns now hold veto power over new data centers. Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Tuesday requiring projects over 25 megawatts to win community approval before state permitting, and creating a fund that charges data centers for missed clean-energy targets.
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Pepperell, Massachusetts, residents spent the summer with windows shut, trapped inside by a stench their town administrator likens to low-tide dead fish. The source was a 20-acre commercial composting operation behind a neighborhood, running without a permit on former sandpit land.
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