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Following data center boom, Oregon for first time considers charging use fees for undersea cables

  • Alex Baumhardt

The Oregon Department of State Lands is proposing for the first time to charge multinational telecommunications and tech companies for using the seafloor off the state’s Pacific Coast for fiber-optic cables used to transmit internet data and international calls. Since 1989, when Oregon got its first trans-Pacific fiber optic cable spanning from Pacific City to […]

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Oregon Tradeswomen receive $150,000 from Google

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THE DALLES — Oregon Tradeswomen, a nonprofit that helps women achieve economic independence, has received $150,000 from Google data centers to support its mission of empowering women through workforce development and career opportunity in the skilled trades. The funding comes as the industry reports a record number of job openings and the fastest rise in wages in decades.

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Google fee agreement reached

  • By Mark Gibson, Columbia Gorge News

Wasco County and the City of The Dalles have successfully negotiated an agreement among area taxing districts regarding how a Community Servic…