Yakama Nation protests clean energy project on sacred site that could power data center
Members of the Yakama Nation are protesting a proposed pumped-hydro energy storage project near Goldendale, Washington, arguing it will be built on a sacred tribal site with significant environmental impacts. They claim the project, owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, is primarily intended to power a large data center campus, specifically naming STACK Infrastructure, despite developers' public statements about residential power needs. Nonprofits are challenging the project in federal court following state and federal permit approvals.

