{"id":1037363,"date":"2026-09-21T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037363"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:46:31","slug":"a-washington-couple-claims-microsoft-data-centre-conspiracy-says-spent-nearly-300000-to-build-a-home-on-their-family-land-state-now-demands-they-surrender-44-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/a-washington-couple-claims-microsoft-data-centre-conspiracy-says-spent-nearly-300000-to-build-a-home-on-their-family-land-state-now-demands-they-surrender-44-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"A Washington couple claims &#8216;Microsoft data centre conspiracy&#8217;; says spent nearly $300,000 to build a home on their family land; state now demands they surrender 44 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington couple claims they have been caught in what they describe as a \u201cMicrosoft data centre conspiracy\u201d after spending nearly $300,000 trying to build a home on their family land. Tyler and Wendy Chambers own 66 acres in Chelan County and say they completed multiple studies and regulatory requirements before being told they would need to permanently set aside 44.2 acres to move ahead with construction.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nAccording to a report by AG Web, the couple and their real estate broker, Jeff Hallman, have questioned why the requirements applied to their property while Microsoft built a data centre about 10 miles away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington couple claims they have been caught in what they describe as a \u201cMicrosoft data centre conspiracy\u201d after spending nearly $300,000 trying to build a home on their family land. Tyler and Wendy Chambers own 66 acres in Chelan County and say they completed multiple studies and regulatory requirements before being told they would need to permanently set aside 44.2 acres to move ahead with construction. \u200b According to a report by AG Web, the couple and their real estate broker, Jeff Hallman, have questioned why the requirements applied to their property while Microsoft built a data centre about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037364,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037363\/revisions\/1037364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}