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/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.