{"id":1202,"date":"2025-11-23T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibbmd.org\/staging\/4763\/?page_id=1202"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:16:07","slug":"landover-data-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ibbmd.org\/staging\/4763\/landover-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Landover Data Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Proposed Landover Mall Data Center<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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What's Going On?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In Prince George’s County, we are fighting a new push to build data centers in Maryland. The County Council voted in 2019 to allow data centers to be built in residential areas and, in 2025, they established a task force to study the issue with a deadline of just nine months.<\/div>
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The Landover Data Center project has been the main focus of its work, which has lacked transparency, thoroughness, and fairness. With over 600 data centers online in Virginia, the regional grid is already being over-taxed, with bills starting to skyrocket for area residents.<\/div>
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Substack Articles written by IBBMD member Heather K. about the Landover Data Center fight:<\/div>
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https:\/\/heatherkerley.substack.com\/p\/is-this-the-best-we-can-do<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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With the current AI data center bubble, there are 4,189 data centers in the United States and the rush to construct more is ongoing. By comparison, the country with the next highest number of data centers is Germany at 487. These projects have harmed residents by creating air, noise, and light pollution, high water demand, health impacts, reduced property values, and higher utility bills. But it\u2019s not only impacts to the local communities and environments that are a concern. The data center construction boom is wiping out climate progress at a crucial moment. Both the resulting climate change and the increase in pollution caused by these projects will disproportionately affect low-income and BIPOC communities.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Join the fight against these projects. <\/div>

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Petition to Stop the Landover Data Center: https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/stop-data-center-at-former-landover-mall-site<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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