Letters to the Editor: Should we be so happy about Chobani’s plans for Lehigh Valley?

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    "url": "https://www.mcall.com/2026/09/26/letters-to-the-editor-should-we-be-so-happy-about-chobanis-plans-for-lehigh-valley/",
    "title": "Letters to the Editor: Should we be so happy about Chobani’s plans for Lehigh Valley? - The Morning Call",
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    "excerpt": "Is it just me or does it seem like everybody in the Lehigh Valley, especially politicians, are absolutely giddy about the new $1.2 billion investment Chobani is making for a Greek yogurt plant? Yet I read in The Morning Call that the plant will eventually need to process 2.2 million gallons of wastewater every day! This is equivalent to water usage of a hyperscale, 100-megawatt data center facility (the kind Microsoft, Google and Meta use). But wait, there are three townships partnering together to handle this problem. Yay! Is Chobani building a power plant for the energy it needs? What about the climate impact from the potential increase of dairy cow flatulence in Pennsylvania? And I’m sure Chobani will be reducing its data center needs by running their business with yellow legal pads and pencils. Is yogurt more important for those who can consume it without producing their own environmentally destructive gases than data centers, which we all need? - Vincent Fazio, Allentown Let me get this straight. Our elections were perfect in 2016, when Republicans took the presidency, House and Senate. Our elections were riddled with fraud and cheating in 2020, when Democrats took the presidency and House, and the Senate was tied. Our elections were perfect again in 2024, when Republicans again took the presidency, House and Senate. We thought. Now we hear that, just as in 2020, the last...",
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