By Amelia Wysong / Broadcast version by Mark Richardson reporting for the Kent State NewsLab-Ohio News Connection Collaboration.
On a recent week night at the Twinsburg Public Library, residents Sue Clark, Cindy Steele and Laurie Facsina addressed a group of roughly 30 community members about why they should oppose new data center construction in their city.
“The companies behind the data center boom are moving quickly into communities across the region, many with the promises of prosperity,” Clark said to the group. “But some communities are pushing back and saying that data centers are not worth the health and environmental impacts at this time.”…