About 50 anti-data center protesters took to the streets outside the federal building in Little Rock on West Capitol Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.
The protestors, who are connected to such groups as the Sierra Club and Indivisible, are upset over the perceived lack of information related to the development of a new data center near the Port of Little Rock that has been connected to Google. The federal building was chosen as the protest site because the Little Rock District of the Army Corps of Engineers has its offices there. The corps is taking public comments on a proposal to permit the dredging and filling of 16 acres of wetlands near Fourche Bayou to make way for the data center, which is being developed by Willowbend Capital.
"We want them to hear us say we don't want data centers because city hall didn't give us that opportunity," Mike Poe, a local activist, said after grabbing a megaphone. "The mayor and the city board, people who you all adore and trust and who you think represent you, are voting against you. It's ridiculous and we are not going to take it anymore, because they support data centers and we don't! We do not support data centers and that is where the line...
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