El Paso’s META Datacenter on the City Council Ballot Box in November
The fight over one of the largest developments in El Paso produced an unexpected political dividing line between voters concerned about resources facing off against labor groups concerned about jobs in the city. In the middle are three city representatives who resisted calls to renegotiate the META datacenter agreement. On one side of the issue…
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