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Recession slows plan to build bunker data centers
Quick ReadEconomy hampers plan to convert WWII ammo bunkers to high-tech computer centers in Nebraska
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — The precise spacing between the mounds of earth that decorate miles of central Nebraska farmland east of Hastings hint at their original purpose as Naval ammunition bunkers during World War II.
After the base closed in 1966, more than half of the 49,000 acres became a USDA lab, but most of the remaining concrete bunkers sold and have served as solidly built hog-feeding...
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