Council member urges residents to attend Landover Mall data-center task force meeting

Councilwoman Jones told the public at the Glen Arden hearing that a Qualified Data Center Task Force meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. at 1616 McCormick Drive in Largo and urged residents and city staff to attend to learn more about a proposed data center at the Landover Mall site.

Jones said community members have raised concerns that a large data center at the site could cause "water issues, electronic, electricity issues," and she urged residents to attend the task-force meeting to assess potential local impacts. She asked the city manager or assistant city manager to attend for fact-finding and said she would attend for "at least an hour and a half."

Jones provided the meeting address as 1616 McCormick Drive in Largo and said she believed the venue is a Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission building but did not confirm the host agency. The announcement was framed as a public notice and request for community participation; no city decision or endorsement of the proposed data center was recorded at the hearing.