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One of the issues animating rural Wake County residents to oppose a massive new data storage facility planned for a parcel of land near Apex is its potential impact on the environment.

Neighbors cite noise pollution, emissions, and the intensive use of electricity and potentially water that could come along with developer Natelli Investment LLC’s 300 megawatt proposal.

But at a meeting of the Town of Apex’s Environmental Advisory Board last week, the developer agreed to enough rezoning conditions to convince the majority of board members that the environmental impacts of the project would be mitigated. The board went on to vote to approve the conditions, a favorable, though nonbonding, recommendation of the project based solely on environmental impacts to the town council. 

Still, a bigger question remains: do town council members still intend to use the parcel of pastureland for which the data center is planned for an industrial use, or do they want to keep it as it is? 

It’s a question the town’s Planning Board and Town Council members will ultimately have to answer. And if the land will be for industrial use, Natelli Investments argues, its data storage facility would be the best project to come to the property.

—Jane

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