Fracking / data center

Argued the AI bubble is deflating, making the data center economically unviable, and warned fracking would crater land values and force tax hikes or school cuts.

Asked the board to enact a moratorium on fracking, drilling, and any AI data center to gain breathing room and follow the science.

Clean Water for NC staffer confirmed no application has been filed yet, called the situation a 'gift of time,' and urged a temporary moratorium now while the county has the most legal latitude.

Warned from experience in rural Southern communities that one big economic tragedy can leave a rural town in permanent ruin, and opposed a rushed decision.

Delivered an impassioned, at times inflammatory critique — calling the project a Bitcoin scheme, invoking the coal ash history, and pointedly challenging Chairman Smith over press comments; the chairman cut him off and denied any impropriety.

Asked the board to enact a moratorium before any application arrives, citing cancer-cluster concerns from other fracking regions and unknown AI influence.