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Organizers urge Gainesville to ban data centers and oppose nearby ICE detention plans
Summary
Speakers at the Feb. 3 Gainesville mayor and council meeting pressed officials for a moratorium on data centers and urged the city to oppose an ICE detention center in Flowery Branch, citing concerns about water, electricity, language access and impacts on Hispanic mobile-home communities.
At the Feb. 3 meeting of the Mayor and City Council of Gainesville, residents urged the council to impose a moratorium on data centers and to take public steps opposing a proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in nearby Flowery Branch.
Matteo Pannado, who identified himself as chair of the Rainbow Collective and a Gainesville resident, told the council that Project Turbo — a data-center proposal that developers withdrew from Hall County — could be relocated into Gainesville via annexation. "People do not want a data center in Gainesville," Pannado said, citing concerns about effects on…
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