That’s after also amending its zoning ordinance to add data centers as a by-right use within C-1 commercial districts. Data centers house servers, storage systems and network equipment that process and store vast amounts of information for businesses, governments, and cloud services. Several residents remain wary of the data center negotiations, and spoke against negotiations at the recent meeting, each taking their two-minute time limit to share their thoughts with the Board. She was unsuccessful in finding hard data or credible sources to determine the impact on school-age children within a three-mile radius of a data center. “I think that I can say just personally in six years’ time there’s a lot of data that’s come out about data centers,” Supervisor David Emert said.