Who? Where? We don’t know, but Avista is entertaining a large data center

After the utility was slow to tell the community about the project, local leaders are formally calling for a moratorium on data centers.

By: Aaron Hedge

Outlets: RANGE Media

Published: June 11, 2026

Words: 1,926

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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After a local TV station reported Tuesday that a potential Avista Corp. customer wants to build a large data center, the power company told journalists it had not given details about the facility sooner because “there was uncertainty around what we could confirm publicly.”

Spokanites had been nervously murmuring about the specter of a data center for months since proposed legislation that would have exempted new data centers from the state sales and use tax failed …

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