For the past few months, county residents have spoken up to express their opposition to data centers.
They’ve signed up to speak during the public comment portion of regular monthly Vance County Board of Commissioners meetings.
They’ve been vocal on social media, offering opinions and posting information about all the bad stuff that happens in communities where data centers are located.
And multiple speakers at Monday’s commissioners meeting called on the board to establish a moratorium on data center development.
Commissioner Valencia Perry asked the board to think about a moratorium. “May I speak about what they’re talking about?” she asked Chair Carolyn Faines. “’Cause evidently they ain’t going nowhere,” which got a round of applause from the audience.
County Manager Renee Perry recommended that commissioners discuss researching a data center moratorium at its next work session.
To recap, the Vance County Planning Board recommended in April that about 40 acres along U.S. Hwy 158 be rezoned from EIA – Employment Institutional Area – to Light Industrial.
There currently are no plans for development of the property under discussion, but, because a name on the rezoning request included a name associated with a Maryland-based data center developer, residents concluded that the site would be the site of a data center in the future.
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