Granite City Mayor Mike Parkinson has taken multiple trips to Papillion Nebraska, seeking to learn about their data center and its impact on their local economy.
Parkinson says he’s familiar with Papillion, with a friend from there introducing him to his wife, and says he has seen how the city has grown after constructing a data center.
“It was a city similar to Granite… it was an older part of Nebraska, older part of Omaha area. Now it’s booming, it’s thriving.”…