When construction on a major Amazon data center in the small rural county of Frederick, Maryland, got underway, community activist Elizabeth Bauer found her peace with it.
But when it expanded by about 1,000 acres beyond its original plans to dig into green space and farmland without addressing the community's concerns, she took a stand.
Together with other locals she is protesting the proximity of the construction site to residential areas, which she says is causing dust and pollution that is exacerbating asthma among the population.Protesters in Frederick demand that farmland is used for farming, not to host data centersImage: Elizabeth Bauer
"I'm okay with data centers in the right place. I'm not okay with them taking prime farmland," Bauer said.
Protest against data centers is getting louder
