Durham County Data Center Moratorium Hearing 8/24
Location: County Commissioners Office- 200 E Main St Durham NC 27701
When: Monday Aug 24
6 pm Rally
Meeting @ 7 pm
The data center moratorium the county is considering, would allow 100,000 square foot data centers, without any new or additional regulations. That’s a huge industrial site, with generators, and IBM estimates that size of data center to use 100 megawatts of power.
100MW is 1/13 of a new Duke Energy methane gas power plant. It is not trivial, it is a real impact on our bills, water, air, and climate. These county moratoriums are the real life brakes on Duke’s runaway greed and the possible AI bubble.
It also requires closed-loop cooling systems, which can lead to PFAS being discharged into drinking water sources.
If we pass a county moratorium as strong as the city’s we can take the time to pass regulations that will protect our communities from these impacts.
Durham needs to show up and speak out, to make sure that we get a real pause, and not one that doesn’t really address the problem.
