FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Forsyth County could soon become the next front in the Triad’s growing data center boom.
Nearly 130 acres in Rural Hall along Glade Street and Bethania-Rural Hall Road is being considered for a new data center. The county’s planning services department received the application last week, and it’ll be headed to the planning board for a review; however, some Rural Hall residents say they don’t want this in their town.
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This proposal is still in its early stages, but if approved, the land across from the Rural Hall Town Hall could be home to four data center buildings and a utility substation. The Rural Hall residents say they are mainly concerned about noise and pollution from the data center, and how it could change their rural community, which they’ve called home for most of their lives.
“It’s still rural, even though we experience a lot of traffic; it’s pass-through traffic,” Carol Newsome, a Rural Hall resident, said…