Pfizer

Aaron Walayat, a law professor who studies eminent domain, traces the doctrine to the Fifth Amendment: 'public use' plus 'just compensation' — the same tool that let Connecticut bulldoze homes for a Pfizer redevelopment in Kelo v. New London that never got built.

Commenters flagged that the circulating headline had it backwards: it's the power line being condemned, not the data center, and state courts have drawn a hard line here before, denying takings that serve mostly out-of-state or private buyers.