Lowell, Massachusetts – Retiree Eileen Castle hasn’t been able to enjoy her backyard since a moved in next door in Lowell, Massachusetts, bringing noise, fumes, dust, and water mist.
But a few streets away, contractor Louis Haas is grateful to Markley, the company running the facility, for redeveloping an abandoned site he says was rife with drug use.
Dubbed “the Dungeon” by some locals for the imposing black silhouette it casts over a residential neighborhood of this old milling city, those opposing views encapsulate how data centers are polarizing communities across the country…