QTS addresses noise, light concerns as York County residents continue to raise objections to $8B project
Residents near QTS’s $8 billion data center campus in rural York County, near Clover and Lake Wylie, continue to object to potential noise, light, electricity and water impacts. QTS says it has modified construction practices and site features in response to community feedback, while York County enacted a nine-month moratorium on considering new data centers that does not affect the already-approved QTS project.
Construction is underway on the first phase of QTS’s planned $8 billion, nine-building data center campus in rural York County near Clover and Lake Wylie. Residents organized as York County Citizens for Responsible Growth have raised concerns at county meetings about construction noise, nighttime truck traffic, lighting, electricity demand and water use.
QTS says the project complies with existing zoning, utility and noise requirements and that its closed-loop cooling system will recirculate water after its initial fill. The company has restricted off-hours construction traffic, moved some cutting operations indoors, adopted quieter backup alarms, replaced temporary lighting and installed screening along Campbell Road. York County Council enacted a nine-month moratorium on new data center applications while studying utility, noise, water and environmental impacts, but the moratorium does not apply to QTS because the project was already approved.