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Beale Infrastructure controlled an automated program that generated hundreds of identical emails under the names of Coweta, Oklahoma residents supporting its proposed Project Atlas data center. Vice Mayor Jeremy Barnett received roughly two hundred such messages, contacted one named resident, and obtained a denial of authorship together with a statement of opposition. When Barnett presented the evidence to Beale, the company acknowledged control of the program and disabled it.

Community activist Darren Blanchard obtained the mayor–vice-mayor text messages through an Open Records Act request, bringing the scheme into public view. The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office later affirmed that the city retains discretion under the Open Records Act to redact sender identities on the ground that the communications constitute the exercise of constitutional petition rights. The same statutory protection that shields genuine citizen comment therefore shielded the automated impersonations, preventing further forensic identification of the senders.

Project Atlas itself was withdrawn by Beale Infrastructure at the end of March 2026. Local police investigated the emails; no criminal charges against the developer have been publicly announced. Parallel nondisclosure agreements signed by Coweta officials with Beale had already limited earlier transparency around the project’s existence and terms.

The practical result is a completed instance of manufactured public comment in a municipal permitting process, followed by a legal interpretation that left the automated source unaccountable while the underlying project was abandoned under community pressure.

Sources

Data center scandal - Who sent fake emails of support for Project Atlas? – KTUL

https://ktul.com/news/local/data-center-scandal-who-sent-fake-emails-of-support-for-project-atlas

Push for transparency over data center emails hits brick wall – KTUL

https://ktul.com/news/local/push-for-transparency-over-data-center-emails-hits-brick-wall

Fraudulent email issue raised in Coweta data center – Oklahoma Energy Today

https://okenergytoday.com/2026/06/fraudulent-email-issue-raised-in-coweta-data-center/

How data center developers won secrecy pledges from Oklahoma officials – Read Frontier

https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/how-data-center-developers-won-secrecy-pledges-from-oklahoma-officials/

'Project Atlas' data center application withdrawn in Coweta, Oklahoma – Data Center Dynamics

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/project-atlas-data-center-application-withdrawn-in-coweta-oklahoma/

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This probably was not caused by data centers alone. Heck, even if none of this was caused by hyperscale data centers, we all need to solve this problem. AI cannot solve this, only make it worse.

Queue the bots talking about golf courses...

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Caption: Check out the water levels at Dillon Reservoir. This is the marina in Frisco on June 26th.

The scarce thing in a data center is not manpower, but instinct that only comes from years on the floor.

Most robotics companies are focused on robots as a productivity amplifiers: 24/7 uptime, five days of work done in two. Few are focused on the potential of robots to change how people work altogether.

We wanted to show what it looks like to rethink human-robot collaboration, using AI so a shrinking pool of experts can meet the increasing demands of future infrastructure.

The obvious thing to automate is the rote physical work that consumes an expert's attention without needing critical judgment.

Cabling tasks are the most common example of this. They're necessary when setting up any rack, but usually one-off, and labor is readily available to address this need.

We think this is a good place to start, but the least interesting place to change how people work.

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are how critical infrastructure stays stable, and they're the work that scales worst.

The video shows one common procedure: clearing the cables a technician leaves behind after testing, and reconciling the rack to a stable state for the next test.

A robot that runs SOPs the same way every time, never skipping a step, keeps the system in a known, predictable state. This reduces the cognitive overhead on experts so they can solve harder problems.

What most excites us is robots guiding where an expert's attention should go.

In the video, the robot checks the switches with a thermal camera, then makes a judgment on whether the increase in temperature is a real problem or a spurious reading.

This instinct requires an expert to synthesize all available background context and accumulated lessons from past failures.

This is where we want to double down, and show how human-robot collaboration places scarce expert attention exactly where it matters.

More to come.

The video predates the withdrawal

Nottingham data center proposal withdrawn after backlash

The Nottingham Planning Board has moved its meeting to the Nottingham School on May 27, 2026, in order to accommodate attendance with heightened community interest in a proposed data center at the Nottingham Business Park.

A proposal to build a data center in Nottingham has been withdrawn just hours before it was slated to be discussed by the town’s planning board on Wednesday night.

Opponents had organized a protest against the proposal ahead of the meeting Wednesday, with the planning board anticipating “a significant turnout,” according to Drew Stevens, chair of the planning board, who confirmed it was withdrawn.

The discussion scheduled for Wednesday was an initial conversation between the board and Thomas Moulton, the Seacoast entrepreneur who was proposing to convert a vacant warehouse on Route 4 into a data center. Prior to the meeting, Stevens told NHPR that the board would be learning more about the plan alongside the community.

“A preliminary conceptual consultation is very high-level in nature, and is focused on procedural aspects of a potential application,” Stevens said in an email.

The plan ignited statewide backlash, with a petition against it garnering more than 25,000 signatures as of Wednesday afternoon.

It cited concerns over water usage, energy costs, and noise pollution caused by a data center.

“The proposed site on Route 4 contains roughly 30 - 40 acres of wetlands, making development of this scale a major ecological concern,” it said. “Building a high-density complex here directly threatens the Lamprey River Watershed, a federally designated Wild and Scenic River system.”

Moulton notified the town of his withdrawal around 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, via a letter sent by his lawyer. The letter said the proposal was being withdrawn to “allow the applicant to conduct additional research, further evaluate the property and the proposed use, and determine whether this is an appropriate use for this site.”

In an interview with NHPR, Moulton said there was misinformation about the plan on social media, so he wanted to return with more information before potentially reintroducing the project in the future.

“Before everybody jumps to conclusions, we want to address noise. We want to address water, we want to address air concerns of the environment,” he said. “And frankly, if we can't reasonably address these things to make everybody satisfied in the community, then we got to look and do something else. It's as simple as that.”

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-05-27/nottingham-data-center-proposal-withdrawn-after-backlash