Jackie Malcom lives less than a quarter mile from where a 2 million square foot data center project was going to be built in Ellenwood, Georgia, a majority-Black community in DeKalb County.
Malcom, 62, opposed the project because she and her neighbors are already dealing with poor air quality as pollution from surrounding industry, including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, have been negatively affecting the community’s health.
As an organizer with the DeKalb Citizens Coalition, a group fighting against data center development in the county, Malcom said she didn’t want to add the environmental impacts from a data center into her neighborhood…