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Residents urge caution on proposed data center projects, cite water, transparency and land-use concerns
Summary
Dozens of residents and experts used the public-comment period at the Oct. 14 St. Joseph County Council meeting to urge caution on further large data-center development, saying the county lacks enough public information about water use, energy demand, tax agreements and the identity and plans of potential developers.
Dozens of residents and experts used the public-comment period at the Oct. 14 St. Joseph County Council meeting to urge caution on further large data-center development, saying the county lacks enough public information about water use, energy demand, tax agreements and the identity and plans of potential developers.
The council acknowledged that a proposed rezoning for a third data center north of New Carlisle was not on that night's agenda, but public concern about the project and the county's handling of data-center development dominated the privilege-of-the-floor remarks.
"Let them those projects be up and fully operating and determine how much water is in the aquifer ... whether we can support another project," Dan Caruso of New…
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