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USDA's largest-ever rural loan funds gas plant near Google data center

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Issued the record $3.3B loan

The U.S. Department of Agriculture lent a Georgia electric cooperative $3.3 billion to help finish a 1.4-gigawatt natural-gas plant, the largest loan in Rural Utilities Service history. The plant is going up about half a mile from land Google bought for a data center.

Updated Oct 20