Nashville Zoo Rallies 180,000 Signatures Against 69,000-Square-Foot Data Center
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Updated · NBC News · Jun 6
Nashville Zoo Rallies 180,000 Signatures Against 69,000-Square-Foot Data Center
3 articles · Updated · NBC News · Jun 6
Summary
More than 180,000 people signed the Nashville Zoo’s petition this week to stop a 69,000-square-foot DC BLOX data center planned about 50 yards from some animal enclosures.
Zoo leaders say noise, artificial light and electrical hums could disrupt animals’ well-being and breeding, especially vulnerable clouded leopards the zoo is trying to conserve.
Council member Courtney Johnston said resident complaints are flooding in; she filed a zoning appeal and plans to seek a metro council vote Tuesday on a data-center moratorium.
Mayor Freddie O’Connell said the city has legal concerns, while his office said developers sought site permits before closing on the property, potentially locking in building rights as soon as Monday.
DC BLOX says the site previously housed a data center and pledged waterless or closed-loop cooling, paid-for power infrastructure and monitored noise, but the fight adds to widening U.S. resistance to data-center expansion.