Thursday was an eventful day for Trenton’s ongoing debate about proposed data centers.
Amazon hosted an open house providing information about its proposed tech hub near the Butler County city of about 14,000.
Meanwhile, Trenton City Council backtracked on proposals that would have provided financial benefits to residents if voters rejected a charter amendment blocking data centers.
Amazon set up a “science fair” in the Edgewood Middle School gym to share details with the community about the proposed 18-building computing facility that would span 600 acres of farmland between Wayne Madison Road and Hawkins Road.
Joe Deaton lives in St. Clair Township near the site. After visiting tables with Amazon Web Services representatives discussing various environmental impacts, he says he still isn’t sold on the data center.
“We’re not opposed to growth. We’re not opposed if it was a warehouse or something that doesn’t suck your water dry, that…
