Since it was made public on June 12, the possibility of a data center being built in Ames has been an ongoing topic. And this was our first major effort, this push against the proposal to build the data center in Ames. “They would have been building a data center that would have been larger than the old city hall. Even if it may not be as big as the data center facilities in Utah, where they want to build the data center the size of Manhattan. Not coming from Heart of Iowa DSA, not coming from Ames versus data centers, and not welcome in our movement.