Blue Mountains locals are fighting to halt a data centre that is to be built on a suburban Katoomba street.

Blue Mountains locals are fighting to halt a data centre that is to be built on a suburban Katoomba street.

The developer behind a $4.8 million data centre in North Katoomba has confirmed they will withdraw their proposal following community backlash.

For US voters, data centres are a direct assault on life at the local level, in the service of a behemoth people largely don’t trust.