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Residents urge county moratorium on data centers, citing health, water and traffic risks
Summary
Public commenters at the Butler County Board of Commissioners meeting called for a temporary moratorium on data-center construction countywide until independent health, environmental, noise and traffic studies are completed; speakers cited Trenton as a cautionary example and raised disputed water-use figures.
Public speakers at the Butler County Board of Commissioners’ March 31 meeting urged the board to impose a temporary moratorium on all data-center projects in Butler County until independent studies assess health, environmental and traffic impacts.
Barry Blankenship, who said he represents WATER (Woodsdale and Trenton Environmental Resistance), asked commissioners to “make motion and a vote on a moratorium on all data centers in our county, both planned and unplanned, until comprehensive independent studies are completed.” He told the board the…
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