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Resident ties planned data center to noise-related mental-health harms, requests record inclusion
Summary
Jess Sutton told the board she is compiling research tying low-frequency constant noise from a proposed data center to tinnitus, sound sensitivities and mental-health harms and asked that her email and family’s experience be placed in the meeting record; she said a family connected to the project recently attempted suicide.
At the public-comment period on May 19, resident Jess Sutton asked the Warrenton Board of Aldermen to include an email in the meeting record concerning a planned data center in one alderman’s ward. Sutton said she is compiling research linking constant low-frequency noise to tinnitus and mental-health harms and that a family close to the proposed site has recently attempted suicide.
Sutton said she had informed the ward aldermen in advance and asked the board and planning staff to consider how the project could affect residents who cannot afford to move and who rely on homes that have been in families for decades. “The pressure many of us are under of what we’re gonna do when we can no longer stay in our homes is heartbreaking,” she said, and asked that the family remain anonymous in the public record.
Sutton said she would request to be added to a future agenda with supporting sources and links. The chair thanked her and confirmed her remarks would be included in the record.
Context Sutton framed the comment around national Mental Health Awareness Month and said she planned to present compiled research at a future meeting; the council did not take action on the project at this meeting.
