TRENTON, Ohio (WKRC) – Amazon is ramping up its push for a proposed data center complex in Trenton as voters prepare to decide in a few weeks whether to ban data centers entirely.
At Edgewood Middle School, Amazon set up booths addressing topics that have come up in public meetings, including noise, jobs, water, and energy usage, ahead of the November vote on whether the complex of 18 data centers can move forward.
Amazon is ramping up its push for a proposed data center complex in Trenton as voters prepare to decide in a few weeks whether to ban data centers entirely. (WKRC)
“Many people interact with a data center every day without even knowing it. So if you stream Netflix, if your doctor stores your records online, if you play keynote at the local bar, if you’re doing anything that’s interacting with the internet, you’re running through a data center at some point in time,” said Brandon Oyer, AWS energy and water director.
Oyer said the project would bring utility costs down and…
