The Minnesota Star Tribune reports…

Google has scaled back its plans for a proposed data center campus in Northeast Minnesota in response to community concerns, the tech giant said this week.

The initial 1.8 million square-foot campus planned for Hermantown is now expected to be 1.66 million square feet, shrinking from four data center buildings to three, reducing the amount of disturbed wetlands and land.

The project, kept secret by city officials for a year, has fueled enormous pushback in this town of 10,000 near Duluth. Since it was revealed as a data center last year through a Minnesota Star Tribune public records request, the project has generated a lawsuit, and inspired political candidates and a highly organized grassroots opposition group protesting everything from tax subsidies to nondisclosure agreements.

“We’ve been listening,” Google representative Tyler Huebner said at a Monday Hermantown City Council meeting.