@gerrymcgovern It's even worse than this suggests — rather than the Oregonian suing for access, the city of The Dalles actually *sued The Oregonian* in a "reverse public records lawsuit" to prevent the paper from disclosing the data, despite their county District Attorney having already ruled that the information should be disclosed.

Google funded the suit until the press got too bad and then pulled out, so the city settled.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/the-dalles-city-sues-local-paper-to-keep-googles-data-center-water-use-a-secret/

https://www.rcfp.org/dalles-google-oregonian-settlement/