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Boone Town Council unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on data center development Monday night. Watauga County leaders may soon consider a similar step.

Boone will consider a temporary ban on new data centers at a Monday meeting. The idea comes as proposals in Forsyth and Stokes counties face pushback.

County officials are mostly hearing negative feedback from the community on the project.

A lawsuit claims Stokes County failed to follow proper procedures when approving a massive data center project. The developer says blocking it could have economic consequences.

The fallout from the approval of a data center proposal may have reshaped the Stokes County Board of Commissioners. WFDD spoke with voters after two incumbents were defeated in the GOP primary.

Stokes County commissioners voted 3–2 to make way for a massive data center in Walnut Cove, despite loud opposition from residents.

Opponents say a Stokes County data center proposal threatens land tied to Indigenous and enslaved peoples’ history. The rezoning request goes before county leaders tonight.

Thousands have signed a petition opposing a proposed data center in Stokes County.

Energy experts gathered in Raleigh this week to discuss how North Carolina’s energy grid — and ratepayers’ wallets — will handle the incoming wave of new data centers.

Large data centers like the ones recently announced in Richmond and Rockingham counties come with significant energy and water needs. Data centers can require 200 megawatts of power or more, and they use millions of gallons of water every day for evaporative cooling.