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    "aws-campus-complete",
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      "claim": "Treating CAC's queue of roughly 60 proposed hyperscale projects as 60 operating physical buildings.",
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        "unit": "Statewide count",
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      "supports": "Citizens Action Coalition says approximately 60 large hyperscale data centers were proposed over two years and that only several are operating. Its public index is a useful proposal-discovery queue, including 18 entries it labels withdrawn—not a verified count of operating physical buildings. DataCenterData cites the queue but does not adopt it as a statewide facility total.",
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      "claim": "Treating AWS Project Rainier's operation as proof that the full New Carlisle campus is complete.",
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      "supports": "Amazon says its multi-site Project Rainier compute cluster is operational and identifies New Carlisle as one site. That supports an operating milestone, not completion of every planned New Carlisle building or the full announced investment scope.",
      "unknown": "The remaining New Carlisle building count, buildout schedule and full-campus completion milestone are not established in the reviewed source.",
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      "verdict": "Unknown",
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      "claim": "Reading Meta Lebanon's 1 GW design as current measured grid demand.",
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      "supports": "Meta describes a 1 GW campus and reported a February 2026 groundbreaking. The reviewed sources do not establish current metered load, a completed buildout or a comparable utility-service commitment.",
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      "verdict": "Contradicted",
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      "kind": "tested-reading",
      "claim": "The expiration of Hammond's CoreWeave agreement means the existing Digital Crossroad data center closed.",
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      "supports": "Hammond says the separate agreement for the proposed 301 Digital Crossroads expansion expired. City records identify CoreWeave as an existing tenant at the operating 100 Digital Crossroads facility. The failed expansion and existing DX-1 site are not the same lifecycle event.",
      "unknown": "None recorded",
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      "verdict": "Contradicted",
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      "unknown": "None recorded",
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      "verdict": "Contradicted",
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      "claim": "One Indianapolis developer cost commitment proves no Indiana data center can affect other customers' electricity costs.",
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      "verdict": "Partially supported",
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