“Just give me my damn data center”: Strip club owner-turned-developer faces pushback on SoCal desert project
The artificial intelligence boom is turning water-starved desert land into a goldmine for data center projects — though one developer looking to build near the U.S.-Mexico border is facing pushback from both residents and officials. Sebastian Rucci, a 65-year-old land-use lawyer and developer with a history that includes a former Ohio strip club and a federally investigated addiction-treatment center, is pushing to build a 950,000-square-foot data center in California’s Imperial Valley, the Wall Street Journal reported. The $10 billion project would consume 330 megawatts of power and is now at the center of a growing fight over who gets to […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.
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