Fighting back datacentres, one small town at a time

Fighting back datacentres, one small town at a time
Residents of Peculiar put up many signs opposing Diode's plans, including this one near the proposed location of the datacentre. (Image: Arin Yoon for The Washington Post)
The Washington Post
By Caroline O'DonovanThe day in June that Wendy Reigel received a shipment of 200 “No datacenter” yard signs, she learned they were obsolete. The developer she had been fighting to keep out of Chesterton, Indiana, announced it was pulling out.But the signs would find new life a few weeks later. Reigel packed them into cardboard boxes and shipped them to Peculiar, Missouri, where a similar fight against a datacentre was under way. This month, locals there celebrated an announcement by the city that they said left the da...

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