Residents in an upstate New York community are trying to prevent construction of a planned data center by approving a year-long ban on large-scale development.

Data center company TeraWulf has signed an 80-year lease for 183 acres of a former coal-fired power plant, which sits on the banks of Cayuga Lake in Lansing, a town of 11,000 just north of Ithaca in New York’s Finger Lakes region.

Many Lansing residents are concerned that the data center will raise electricity costs, generate noise pollution and drain the region’s water resources.

The town board is scheduled to vote this month on a proposed moratorium that could derail TeraWulf’s plans.

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