Data Centers

A data center developer is considering a site near Sanford in Lee County, and might even pursue fracking to fuel the facility — a first for North Carolina. Monday night, a crowd of concerned citizens wearing anti-fracking buttons packed Sanford’s McSwain Center to push for a data center moratorium.

This comes after a developer of a proposed data center canceled the project late last week. The moratorium is intended to give town staff time to update zoning rules.

New Hill Digital Campus was a proposed 300 MW facility in Apex. The project faced intense community backlash.

AI-driven applications are creating demand for more conduits to carry internet traffic, like undersea cables that snake along the ocean floor.

In North Carolina, state regulators are trying to figure out how to meet unprecedented energy demand while also protecting the average ratepayer. Earlier this week, the North Carolina Utilities Commission held a two-day meeting to talk about these issues.

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.

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The rise in data centers across the state is the topic of discussion today in Winston-Salem. Leoneda Inge reports.Most of the biggest data centers are in…