The Triad Business Journal reports about a proposed data center to be located in Walnut Cove. It is likely to serve the AI needs of “big tech” companies.
There is significant opposition to the data center for various reasons. The developers promise 250-500 permanent jobs with average salaries of $100,000. The county planning board has already voted against it.
David Couch is involved with this proposal. That raises the issue of whether the Republicans in the General Assembly will take the land away from Stokes County in the event local authorities refuse to allow the project.
AI requires lots of energy thus the data centers have got to be somewhere but NIMBY. (-:
The legislature is likely to, as you suspect, TC, cave to the monied interests.
I am curious, Fred, about the jobs estimates– and the pay estimates for those jobs. It had been my impression in the past that data centers don’t employ many people. The numbers cited are more than I would have expected.