Best known as America’s historic brewing capital, St. Louis is seeking to reinvent itself as a regional tech hub by rolling out the red carpet for a sprawling new technology park anchored by a giant data center—a project that has drawn public backlash and triggered legal battles.
A city of roughly 280,000 people, St. Louis already hosts more than a dozen operational data centers, with three more currently under construction in the area and up to 10 more in various stages of planning…