DeKalb Rejects Massive Data Center Planned for Majority-Black Community - Capital B News - Atlanta
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The outcome follows months of organizing by residents who said the massive development could worsen existing environmental and infrastructure problems.

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Jackie Malcom lives less than a quarter mile from where a 2 million square foot data center project was going to be built in Ellenwood, Georgia, a majority-Black community in DeKalb County.  Malcom, 62, opposed the project because she and her neighbors are already dealing with poor air quality as pollution from surrounding industry, including […]The post A Black DeKalb Community Fought a Massive Data Center for Nearly a Year and Won appeared first on Capital B News - Atlanta.

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