During recent meetings and at least one public demonstration, many Fort Meade residents have signaled their adamant opposition to a planned hyperscale data center.
What Fort Meade’s city commissioners think about the proposed 4.4 million-square-foot facility is more of a mystery.
The commission voted 5-0 in June 2025 to approve land-use and zoning changes for most of the 1,300 acres the data center would occupy. Since then, Commissioner James “Possum” Schaill has died and been replaced by Matthew Taylor…