With the clock running down on the Dunleavy administration, the state is rushing through a plan to give away 20,000 acres of state land near Houston to the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority.
Giving the land to AIDEA at no charge—a massive state subsidy—would make a proposed “multi-use industrial and energy development district” more likely to succeed, according to the Dunleavy analysis.
There would be space for data centers, a logistics hub, advanced manufacturing pads, gravel pits and energy and utility hubs across the 20,000 acres. The site is east of the Parks Highway about two miles north of Houston and is accessible by Zero Lake Road…