Duke Energy has applied to the state to operate 57 diesel generators that would temporarily power the data center until a transmission line is built. They could emit several hundred tons of pollutants and 70,000 tons of greenhouse gases in a year.
Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina - Inside Climate NewsResidents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators.insideclimatenews.org