Why Should Delaware Care?The popularity of artificial intelligence has sparked a boom in demand for facilities, called data centers, which house the servers that power the internet. But those facilities have also drawn criticism from local communities for their water and electricity usage.
New Castle County Councilman Tim Sheldon says he recently brokered a handshake deal to pause a data center development project near Newark.
Sheldon, who represents the Newark area, said the deal followed private negotiations with the developer’s prominent Delaware attorney, Shawn Tucker, who told him the New York-based developer behind the project, Shelbourne, agreed to consider the Newark site for uses other than a data center…