A township is trying to thread the needle on a billion‑dollar Meta data center that would turn 1,000+ acres of farmland into high‑tax industrial AI infrastructure, with huge implications for local power, water, noise, and future large‑scale builds.
The six‑month “moratorium” doesn’t touch the current rezoning and includes a broad waiver, so the actual runway for this GPU‑scale facility largely stays open while officials define where data centers belong in the zoning map.
The strong public backlash, NDA concerns, and potential referendum signal rising political and community risk around siting high‑density AI data centers, making this a useful read for anyone tracking where hyperscalers can realistically expand.
