Landowners opposed to what their attorneys say would be the state’s largest data center are suing to stop the venture over concerns it will disrupt their rural community and hurt the ACE Basin, a nationally known nature preserve in South Carolina.
The Southern Environmental Law Center filed the suit in state court Friday on behalf of Miles Crosby and Jennifer Singleton, who are among hundreds of Colleton County residents who have spoken out about the data center planned by Eagle Rock Partners. The suit names Colleton County as the defendant.
As proposed, the data center would be built on 859 acres of private land in an area of the ACE Basin that has not yet been protected from development but has been considered for preservation, environmentalists say. The nine-building data center campus would disturb more than 400 acres of forests and some wetlands, the lawsuit says…