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Residents deliver petitions and warnings about proposed data center; commissioners say item not on tonight’s agenda
Summary
More than a dozen residents and local officials urged the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners on May 4 to oppose a proposed data center development, citing air and water quality concerns, drought impacts and requests for local accountability; the board said the project was not on the meeting agenda and took no formal action.
Multiple residents used the public‑petitions segment of the meeting to press the board on a proposed data center that opponents say could harm local air and water quality and strain scarce water resources.
Joan White Grenigge (speaker 17) said she lives near the Howard Avenue extension to Kingsborough and told commissioners she fears the air and water quality in a neighborhood made up largely of senior residents could worsen if a data center is built…
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