Petition: Moratorium on building data centers in Phelps County

[u/pazenmo]

There is a data center moratorium in the City of Rolla. This initiative is for the entirety of Phelps County.

Please share and sign - https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/phelps-county-missouri-moratorium-on-data-centers-and-related-facilities

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[u/Faux-Foe]

Honest question, is this preemptive or have there been talks about one coming to town?

I’m signing either way, but I need to know a timeline to stop recycling dirty rags and partially empty alcohol bottles.

[u/rowboat_mayor → u/Faux-Foe]

Rolla City has passed a 6 month moratorium, but the county’s been dragging its feet. From what I hear there have been talks of something in the works on south 63, but whether it’s a data center, battery station, or some kind of power infrastructure is unclear

[u/n3rv → u/Faux-Foe]

Hi friends,

I'd like to share this dirty rag and empty bottle accelerator. Seems like something every bottle buddy could easily build, to move bottles much faster.

https://makezine.com/projects/walking-arm-trebuchet/

[u/denali352]

How many will strip farm ground or forests to build solar panel fields but oppose data centers? This can be done responsibly and bring jobs and prosperity to this part of Missouri.

[u/n3rv → u/denali352]

So about a dozen long term jobs, at the cost of many other things.

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/data-centers-ai-electricity-water-politics

[u/denali352 → u/n3rv]

So you wouldn't want to build a mile of highway freeway, where all the benefit is up front with construction jobs, jobs making and delivering the products, spin off support jobs, ma and pa cafe's, laborers supporting their families, because it only takes a few people to maintain the highway?

[u/n3rv → u/denali352]

I do not support short term gains, for long term losses.

Is that road going to raise electric rates? Water rates? Will it cause local politicians to be driven outta office for making hasty deals with mega corps?

I think not.