A Virginia resident named Kay Richards says she’s stuck in a real-life nightmare after 14 data centers opened within a mile of her home, where they emit a terrible odor.

“The constant buzzing and smell of what I believe is diesel make it hard for me to even go in my backyard,” said Richards, a resident of the city of Manassas, in a first-person account published by Business Insider.

But hell no, she ain’t leaving.

“We’ll continue to fight the developers as they try to build more,” she said. “I will die on this hill and stay in this house.”

Richards, who lives in a hot bed of data centers, isn’t alone in her complaints; many people across the country are also increasingly upset about the negative impact from living near data centers, whose presence has grown in recent years due to the a

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