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Residents press council to block hyper‑scale data centers amid environmental and surveillance concerns
Summary
At a Prince George's County listening tour, residents and activist groups urged the council to continue a moratorium on large data centers, arguing projects strain utilities, harm the environment and risk enabling AI surveillance tied to immigration enforcement; council leaders said they oppose the Landover proposal and will keep studying policy and oversight options.
Prince George's County residents and organized groups pressed the County Council on the environmental, fiscal and civil‑liberties risks of large data centers during a listening tour at High Point High School.
Speakers representing local coalitions told the council that hyper‑scale data centers consume large amounts of electricity and water, worsen regional utility costs and contribute nothing like the promised local benefits. Taylor Frazier McCollum of the No Land Over Data Center Movement said the facilities "promise to flood the area with jobs…
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