One of TeraWulf’s Bitcoin mining farms. On August 20, Maryland’s data center industry rented a hall and threw itself a party. No, that’s not a joke. While Marylanders across the Old Line State push back against the rapid expansion of data centers in our communities, the industry thought it would be a good idea to celebrate. The Maryland Tech Council called it the third annual Data Center Summit. According to notes taken by an anonymous attendee who shared them with me, Kelly Schulz, the Council’s chief executive and a former Maryland Commerce Secretary, opened with a legislative victory lap: thirty-odd

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