AFRO Staff Writer
Montgomery County environmental leaders are urging the county council to require a proposed data center in Dickerson, Md. to run on 100 percent clean energy, warning that the facility could significantly undermine the county’s climate goals and impact public health.
The hyperscale data center would pull 300 megawatts of electricity from the regional grid, producing massive greenhouse gas emissions if powered by fossil fuels, and would require large volumes of water for cooling…