Data driver: SOS sues to force the City of Austin to release details on a Tesla data center

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    "title": "Data driver: SOS sues to force the City of Austin to release details on a Tesla data center - Austin Free Press",
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    "excerpt": "Data center tensions are coming to a head in Austin. This morning, environmental nonprofit Save Our Springs Alliance (SOS) announced that it has filed a lawsuit attempting to force the City of Austin to publicly disclose information on a proposed data center for Tesla, Inc. The filing comes as the city council explores data center regulations and skeptical residents demand more answers about the local impacts of those facilities. Meanwhile, Tesla has quietly sought connections to the Austin Water utility for a data center – the size and scale of which are not publicly known. SOS formally asked for records of all data centers that have requested connection to Austin Water services since January 2024. The city supplied the requested information for one small facility but wrote the Texas Attorney General Office for permission to withhold the Tesla records, which Tesla argues are proprietary trade secrets. SOS argues that the city then illegally withheld Tesla records that the Attorney General directed it to release. Instead, the city redacted almost everything from the SOS records that it provided to SOS. SOS filed suit against the City of Austin on Sept. 21, asking a local state district court to uphold the Attorney General’s ruling, which it says directs the city to release some unredacted Tesla documents. In response to a request for comment, a City of Austin representative...",
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