A crowd of at least 200 people filled pews of a Forest Park Southeast neighborhood church Sunday afternoon to speak out against a proposal to build new data centers in St. Louis.

The community town hall at St. Cronan’s Church, the second of three planned events within a week, is the latest sign of a swell of public concern about a proposed $1.5 billion project that would transform the now-shuttered Armory building in Midtown and its parking lot into two large data centers.

Attendees at Sunday’s event, hosted by 17 environmental and labor groups, voiced a clear message: No new data centers in St. Louis. The town hall’s emcee, activist Maxi Glamour and other speakers called for Mayor Cara Spencer and the Board of Aldermen to put a stop to the Armory project and to enact a one-year mora

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