Residents want something done with the old Landover Mall site. But they don’t want data centers.
Prince George’s County residents concerned about the environmental and energy impact of data centers rallied ahead of a meeting of a county council task force studying and working to come up with recommendations for a proposed data center.
The planned data center project at the old Landover Mall site just off the Beltway isn’t a done deal yet. But critics say the project was given the green light without any transparency, and it’s a lot further along than people might have thought.
The rally had been in the works for days, with social media and online petitions firing people up about the development and the regularly scheduled task force meeting — which didn’t include any discussion about the Landover site on the agenda.
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