STERLING, Va. (DC News Now) – PowerPoint presentations about dense research papers don’t typically draw a crowd.
At a church in Sterling, Virginia, residents turned up to listen to Michael Cork, a Harvard researcher, break down his findings on the health impacts of a nearby data center with rapt attention.
The presentation was hosted by the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC), a conservation and environmental advocacy group, which commissioned Cork to conduct the study after they said the community was “blindsided” by the development of the Vantage VA2 data center…