In this episode, the Common Core Diva, Lynne Taylor, joins me for a look at the massive expansion of data centers and AI centers in the US and their impacts upon the environment, people’s property and the economy. This will have long-term disastrous consequences for the US.
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1) We’ll start off with the current battle, here in Mooresville NC, about the massive new data center that’s been proposed and pushed forward.
https://www.charlotteobserver.
(IF you can’t access due the ad blocker, that’s ok, however it’s from mid June 2025)
Try this one from early May 2025:
https://www.iredellfreenews.
1a) The Mooresville Data Center sales pitch:
https://youtu.be/78sVuSKQTrc?
1b) The company Earnhardt is working with in Mooresville, NC (and elsewhere):
https://www.tract.com/ (*Note: based in CO) **Be sure to look at the staff page! Also look at the progress and partner tabs.
AND
https://www.tract.com/
AND
https://www.tract.com/
1c) The current NC General Assembly bill (House 765) that will forever change real estate and land development in NC:
https://www.ncleg.gov/
(*Note: The 2nd attachment is a private citizen from Mooresville. He gave permission for this to be shared.)
1d) Since this directly impacts energy, look to your state legislature for bills which will help support a Data Center, for example, NC Senate Bill 261:
https://www.ncleg.gov/
(*Note: then research your state’s energy companies. For example, NC’s main source is Duke Energy. From this website, look at the potential for profit by Duke in regards to industrial zoning/data centers:
https://www.marketscreener.
**It’s worth pointing out that Duke Energy is raising private consumer energy costs on 10/1/25. See: https://www.duke-energy.
1e) Does your energy company get politically involved? Duke Energy sure does, and on both sides of the aisle.
https://www.duke-energy.com/
AND
https://www.opensecrets.org/
(*Note: the 3rd and 4th attachments are to yet another set of parameters the NC General Assembly is trying to gloss over concerning H 765, by using S 205.)
Mim the Future of Data Centers Trends Challenges and Opportunities by Tim Brown on Scribd
Here’s S 205’s link:
https://www.ncleg.gov/
2) The opposition to the Mooresville Data Center:
https://
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2a) The cities which fought back: https://
2b) From the Facebook group opposed:
https://www.facebook.com/
3) Then, this short video of one family from GA, where a Data Center was built:
https://youtu.be/DGjj7wDYaiI?
3a) Differences between hyperscale data centers and colocation data centers:
https://www.lastenergy.com/
4) Concerns by the Carbon crowd:
https://www.carbon-direct.com/
4a) Health concerns that are present, regardless of administration levels in DC:
https://english.elpais.com/
4b) From April 2025: Trump’s moves in data centers:
https://datacentremagazine.
4c) From January 2025: Biden’s moves in data centers:
https://www.
4d) This website has an entire section on tracking the growth and moves for data centers, but notice this one,where it questions how united the Rs and Ds are when it comes to the ruinous nature of data centers:
https://www.gravel2gavel.com/
*Note: to see the entire thread of articles:
https://www.gravel2gavel.com/
5) The first attachment is from Metropolitan Insurance and discusses the benefits of investing in Data Centers (this is good to know in order to fight back)

6) From the federal gov’t:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.
7) From the website that centers on e-learning (electronic learning):
https://elearningindustry.com/
8) From VA, the supposed boost Data Centers will allow for property values:
https://www.
From My Archives, the previous Big Data grabs in Mooresville, NC:
9) From during Pres. Obama’s term, he was flown into Mooresville to announce this ‘groundbreaking data project’ at a local school:
https://www.commoncorediva.
(RED was designed to use data to transform education and its cost effectiveness)
10) From 2019, when GIGA came to Mooresville, NC:
https://www.commoncorediva.
The Sons/Liberty show we did on GIGA (and Lenovo):
https://sonsoflibertymedia.
11) Related: From 2021, the 2030 Mooresville Plan:
https://www.commoncorediva.
12) Related: From 2017, an article revealing some of the biggest data entities in education:
https://www.commoncorediva.
(*Note: this list of providers will have changed by now. Some of these programs are still in use, while others, more than likely have been changed, deleted, or replaced altogether)
13) Related: More on TRACT
a) Using a new name to distance itself or to deceive citizens?! (*Note: this is from a global perspective)
https://www.globenewswire.com/
b) A strategic partner to benefit agriculture?!
https://igrownews.com/tract-
AND the glossy press release:
https://www.tract.eco/news/
https://www.tract.eco/news/
For the archives:
1) All my research on student data rape:
https://www.commoncorediva.
(*Note: This phrase is not to glorify a horrific crime, it is to point out the distinct parallels between a physical crime and what should be an intellectual crime.)
2) Using the NC General Assembly as an example, go to your State government page and search for current zoning legislation:
https://www.ncleg.gov/Search/
3) Charlotte, NC is the 2nd largest banking city in the nation, so it’s not a surprise that the zoning there has been changed to allow for even more data centers:
https://www.digitalrealty.com/
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