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KPCR NEWS 2026-09-22 · KPCR News

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  This is your KPCR News Update with Scott Puckett.
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  Hundreds of flights were cancelled or disrupted
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  on Monday across the Northeast as technical problems
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  significantly impacted a key air traffic center.
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  Damaged communication lines at an air traffic
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  control center in Philadelphia caused major delays
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  and setbacks for every airport in the New York
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  City area. The primary communications line belonging
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  to the Federal Aviation Administration facility
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  in Philadelphia was the cause of the initial
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  failure, while the backup fiber -optic line had
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  been inadvertently severed by a crew of railroad
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  construction workers. Lookout Santa Cruz reports
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  that a package of seven bills were signed into
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  effect on Monday that aimed to force the data
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  center industry to finance its own endeavors
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  within the state of California. Of the seven
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  laws, three shift electric infrastructure costs
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  away from residential customers and toward data
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  center operators, three of the bill's mandate
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  disclosures of water usage and other resources,
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  and the last bill makes data centers ineligible
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  for environmental review exemptions. Recent surveys
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  have found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose data
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  center construction in their communities. Meanwhile
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  in Oregon, according to Willamette Week, The
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  state has two distinct data center profiles based
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  upon geography. The vast majority of the centers
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  reside east of the Cascade Mountains, with 67
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  of the 70 locations labeled as hyperscale facilities.
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  And while the western section currently employs
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  425 direct staff, a recent report expects an
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  80 % increase in square footage by 2030 and 23
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  new facilities developing in the pipeline within
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  the region west of the Cascades. That was your
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  KPCR News Update. I'm Scott Puckett. For more
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