There needs to be a billboard in every West Virginia county listing the name of every local delegate and senator that voted for the data center bill. They need to be called out regularly up to the election.
Shocking that the state is choosing to locate a 10,000 acre data center campus on the spine of the Appalachians where it could do the most harm. Why not instead build the data center on a strip mine at a much lower elevation on a site that needs significant remediation. Tucker County has so much to lose, for locals, the tourism industry, and outdoor recreation that is central to this community. This county needs a future land use plan, the comp plan never envisions the impact of a 10,000 acre campus. A future land use plan and zoning is a tool that can preserve the wild and wonderful while allowing for some clustered development near existing activity nodes.
Governor is behind the whole secret operation. No one knows how many jobs it will create. Whatever the leaders say divide by two and that may be close to it. AI may backfire on everyone. And the company said no to attending the meeting speaks for itself.
This meeting brought out a lot of the best of a community that is concerned yet polite and respectful. National Public Radio featured a story today that revisions need to be made so that local government should have more say about data center development in their county. Anyone that would want to spoil Blackwater Falls, Dolly Sods, Monongahela National Forest, and Canaan Valley would likely be run out of town or even worse… Tarred and Feathered.
There needs to be a billboard in every West Virginia county listing the name of every local delegate and senator that voted for the data center bill. They need to be called out regularly up to the election.
Shocking that the state is choosing to locate a 10,000 acre data center campus on the spine of the Appalachians where it could do the most harm. Why not instead build the data center on a strip mine at a much lower elevation on a site that needs significant remediation. Tucker County has so much to lose, for locals, the tourism industry, and outdoor recreation that is central to this community. This county needs a future land use plan, the comp plan never envisions the impact of a 10,000 acre campus. A future land use plan and zoning is a tool that can preserve the wild and wonderful while allowing for some clustered development near existing activity nodes.
Governor is behind the whole secret operation. No one knows how many jobs it will create. Whatever the leaders say divide by two and that may be close to it. AI may backfire on everyone. And the company said no to attending the meeting speaks for itself.
This meeting brought out a lot of the best of a community that is concerned yet polite and respectful. National Public Radio featured a story today that revisions need to be made so that local government should have more say about data center development in their county. Anyone that would want to spoil Blackwater Falls, Dolly Sods, Monongahela National Forest, and Canaan Valley would likely be run out of town or even worse… Tarred and Feathered.