On this West Virginia Morning, a panel discussion consisting of community, political and data center industry leaders Tuesday night at Shepherd University has reignited the debate over local control of data center development in the state. Chris Schulz has the story.

Also, after a nearly three-month delay, WorkForce West Virginia has released state unemployment figures for January. And, Amazon this week celebrated the grand openings of two news operations facilities in West Virginia.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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