The proposal for a Google data center to be constructed in Virginia drew a packed crowd to a Board of Supervisors meeting in Botetourt County on Tuesday night, as residents turned out to voice concerns about water use.
The project was not on the meeting agenda but clearly top of mind for many in attendance, local news outlet WDBJ 7 reported.
What’s happening?
According to the local outlet, dozens of residents came to oppose the proposal, with speakers focusing on how much water a major data center might require and whether that could affect area supplies.
“Even though they can’t theoretically take groundwater … I’m on the same aquifer — my well — as what this would be,” resident Anna Lawson said, according to WDBJ. “But you don’t know, and when they start taking even water out of Carvins Cove or Tinker Creek, who knows?”…