Great Lakes Energy Institute's Charis Egland-Smith offers warning of data center investors in Lorain County

Lorain County residents are fighting plans for development. Officials intend to push forward
WOSU: Charis Egland-Smith, midwest climate collaborator at the Great Lakes Energy Institute, warned that data center investors target rural areas because they offer "the least amount of resistance"—and Lorain County may be next. Despite a township vote against rezoning, county officials are pushing ahead with a "mega site" development on hundreds of acres of farmland near a regional airport.