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An analysis of The Lowell Sun’s former “reporter” Melanie Gilbert’s other past news stories, shows that her bias also extended to coverage on data centers, favoring local protestors while ignoring important safety and environmental rules they must follow. In articles about backup generators in the Sacred Heart neighborhood, she focused heavily on how scared and anxious the neighbors were about the expansion. However, Ms Gilbert buries or leaves out the fact that these generators are tightly controlled by the state's environmental protection department and strict local city rules. For example, the equipment is heavily monitored and bound by very strict MassDEP air permits and a 360-day city planning moratorium. By focusing only on the anger and leaving out these actual legal guardrails and protections, her “stories” make readers wrongly believe that the data center company is just doing whatever it wants without any laws stopping or managing them. Also, her past articles consistently minimized or omitted the fact that the data facility serves as vital technology and routing infrastructure for over 500 major clients, including local governments, private entities, and UMass Lowell. Indicating an anti-development, anti business and economic sentiment!