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Resident warns Cheatham County: data centers could strain TVA power and change county’s character
Summary
At the July 21 public forum, resident Tracy O'Neil urged commissioners to plan proactively against speculative data-center development, citing large power requests to TVA, examples in Memphis, and a call to protect rivers, farms and trails.
Tracy O'Neil, a Chatham County resident, urged the Cheatham County Commission on July 21 to plan proactively to protect local natural and agricultural resources from speculative industrial development, particularly data centers that demand large amounts of power.
"Our rivers and our creeks and our hiking trails and our farms and our homesteads, these are all the backbone of our community, and they deserve to be protected," O'Neil said during the public forum. She warned commissioners that recent proposals for large computing facilities can…
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