DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — It was a packed room at the Wesley Chapel-William C. Brown Library as citizens poured in to learn about data centers and campuses.

“When I start to talk to people within our own community, they don’t even know what a data center is, and then once they found out what a data center was, they don’t know the difference between a data center and a data campus,” said Jackie Malcom.

The forum comes as DeKalb County mulls a 1 million-square-foot data center campus, to be built in Ellenwood, not far from a neighborhood.

“Enough is enough,” Malcom said. “I just feel like they’re just trying to find any empty space in our community and just want to slap it in our community.”

Activists are concerned about potential pollution, energy use and their health. T

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