Commissioners to hear from opponents of data center plan

A group of citizens in Lee County, North Carolina are opposing a rumored proposal to build a data center powered by a natural gas mining operation. The Lee County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to hear a presentation from the Southern Environmental Law Center about the potential impacts of the unconfirmed data center plan. Local residents and environmental groups are pushing for a temporary moratorium to allow the county time to plan for the development, which they say threatens the air and water. The Sanford Area Growth Alliance, the county's economic development organization, has stated it is not involved with or supportive of the rumored project, which it says does not align with modern, sustainable data center practices.