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Letters to the Editor: Comparing data centers and ethanol plants

An opinion piece in the Cherokee Chronicle compares the water and energy usage of proposed data centers with existing ethanol plants in Iowa. It uses Meta's hyperscale data center in Altoona as an example to show that ethanol plants, like the Little Sioux Corn Processor, consume significantly more resources. The author urges readers to scrutinize ethanol plants and the Summit pipeline with the same intensity as data centers.