This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor.

To Lancaster County, the best county in the Keystone Estate, my correspondent, Jim

McTagg, former Washington editor of Barron's Magazine, now a man who's watching the building

of a data center, one of two to be located in Lancaster County.

You will recall these last days, there was a great big photo feature in the Washington Post of the 600 data centers that are now populating Virginia, northern Virginia, for the White House, for all the executive departments, for the

people of Washington, and for all the businesses that are growing up around Washington,

the defense industry especially. However, this is just the beginning, 600 there. They make a lot

of noise. They demand a lot of water because they have to be cooled all the time.

They run 24-7.

They do not require a great number of people staffing, but a lot of services.

So they can be seen as a very positive sign for a rural America.

Jim is not in rural America, but then again, he's ex-urban.

Mr. McTay, the data center that was recently established,

the two in your area, rebuilding the former publishing house R.R. Donnelly.

The smallest is nearby you.

What is going on there now? Good evening to you.

Oh, good evening, John. It's construction is full steam ahead. I couldn't actually pull into the site,

which is the site of the old Donnelly printing plant, whose printers were scrapped, I think, a year ago. But they've torn down part of the building

or erecting a new wing. It's really a huge building. You know, if you've seen a giant

Amazon warehouse, it's about the size of one of those warehouses. It's L-shaped, and it's the smaller of the

two data centers. So this is good news for Lancaster County. We, you know, we have a big agricultural

trade. We have tourism, big on medicine, pretty good in pharmaceuticals, but we didn't have any high tech.

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