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People who live in one southern community participate in the growing list of Americans who say no to a proposed data center near their houses.
Tarboro, North Carolina, residents urge their city council to reject a proposal for a 50-hectare large, 300 megawatt energy storage solutions LLC site that is expected 500 jobs And millions of dollars in tax revenues for the city.
“This project is considerable risks that outweigh possible benefits, not only for those who live in the neighborhood, but also for the entire city,” wrote Cynthia Coker in a statement to a change.org petition that she has made. “The serene environment, character and community cohesion that we cherish in Tarboro can be dramatically changed by the presence of such a massive facility.”
Coker continued with saying, “Datacenters His notorious for consuming enormous amounts of electricity and water, which leads to increased utility rates and exhaustion of local resources. “
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LEDs light up in a server rack in a data center in Hessen, Frankfurt on January 23, 2023. (Sebastian Gollnow / Picture Alliance / Getty images)
Energy storage solutions LLC president Dan Shaffer told Local Wral That he expects the data center to cost $ 6.4 billion during the three to five years needed to build.
“We are very aware of the environment itself, because we have been solar developers,” Shaffer told the station, adding that the center will generate its own energy and use 500,000 liters of water per day.
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In an air display, a data center of the Amazon Web Services on July 17, 2024 in Stone Ridge, Virginia near single -family homes is displayed. (Nathan Howard / Getty Images)
Shaffer said that data centers like this are a growing necessity in the modern era.
“Every time someone takes a photo with his phone, or someone who downloads things on the internet, you must have data centers throughout the country to support this,” he said. “With the addition of AI … the demand will grow and grow.”
Rijen Servers fill Data Hall B in the Fort Worth Data Center of the Facebook in Texas. (Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service/Getty images)
