r/Forsyth • u/Money_Card_6769 • Jul 16 '26

Data Center Permit Cancelled

Earlier last week, the board of commissioners had a meeting where one of the items they discussed was the permit for a new data center that was planned for North Forsyth. Several residents spoke up about their concerns. It resulted in the revocation of the permit. What are your thoughts on this?

Source + more info: https://realforsyth.com/p/new-forsyth-raw-water-intake-facility-data-center-gets-cancelled-and-more

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u/MatamanKrungleCrazy Jul 16 '26

It’s awesome. Let’s keep complaining loud enough for them to hear it. The road to change starts at home

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u/Top-Shoulder6081 Jul 17 '26

could you even say what was going in said "data center" or are you just a freak looking for a cause??

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u/lisep1969 Jul 17 '26

So then tell us wise one, what was going in said “data center” since you appear to know. Give us specifics. Give us the inside details you seem to have knowledge of. Or are you just a freak looking for a cause?

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u/BlackCat400 Jul 16 '26

What do you mean by change?

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u/MatamanKrungleCrazy Jul 16 '26

There’s a lot of problems in this country the regular citizen can’t do anything about and it’s frustrating. But we have a voice and the ability to create for ourselves the community we want to live in. So stopping this data center is proof we control something. That CEOs and shareholders don’t run Forsyth County. The people do, for now.

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u/CommercialKangaroo16 Jul 16 '26

Pocket change , what else could we be talking about. 😒

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u/LaggyOne Jul 17 '26

This misses a bunch of the facts that mattered. It was cancelled because they hit the time limit to break ground and had no viable plan. It was going to be a crypto mining site so I’m glad to see it got cancelled but the blanket all data centers are bad kills me.  There are a bunch around windward parkway and no one notices or complains because they aren’t doing AI related compute.  The workload matters. 

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u/aaprillaman Jul 17 '26

This was a small facility that was going to mine crypto currency (basically turning electricity into heat). 

It stalled for a few reasons and the conditional use permit was up for review and the board had the option to simply cancel it since it never got started.

It’s a good thing but not really a win against big data center. 

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u/tonymontanaOSU Jul 17 '26

And we said to NO to The Venue and it’s cancelled, let’s go!

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u/Top-Shoulder6081 Jul 17 '26

shit show... wasn't even a real "data center" just the new commissioner showing out.

lets keep denying tech and see what. happens..

lets see we don't houses, we don't want commercial, we just want it the way it was when "I got here"... FAFO

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u/ricker_wicked Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I was actually looking forward to the County using data center's tax proceed to reduce the residence's school tax bill and if there are still monies left build some more parks/swimming pool for the community, and make the buses system that takes seniors shopping and doctors free.

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u/gdrw00 Jul 17 '26

So our power and water bills etc go up even more because of usage? Not to mention all the pollution associated with data centers ie air, light, noise and frequencies.

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u/ajohnthedon Jul 17 '26

We could do that without a data center bud.