Last month, a cell tower company applied to expand its relatively small data center in western Raleigh four days before the city passed a data center moratorium.
American Tower, based in Massachusetts, wants to expand its approximately 15,000-square-foot data center on Chapel Hill Road by about 10,000 square feet. The News & Observer tried to contact American Tower on Monday but did not receive a response.
The facility is far smaller than the 100,000-square-foot data center proposed on Jones Sausage Road near Southeast Raleigh over the summer. That proposal, ultimately withdrawn, asked the city to annex property to allow the data center to move forward…