Dowagiac Michigan resident sums up what it's like to live near a data center: ‘A prison in our own yard’

 

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Aya Miller reports:

The noise is coming from across the street. 

It’s Hyperscale Data’s 30-megawatt data center at 415 E. Prairie Ronde St. in Dowagiac, a small city of 5,700 people in Southwest Michigan. 

This may just be the beginning: Hyperscale Data has plans to expand to 340 megawatts. The Finns fear the expansion will make the noise worse. 

“It’s like we’re living in a prison in our own yard, in our own house,” Marjorie Finn said, sitting in her living room. Behind her, the data center is visible through white lace curtains.

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