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The Cloud Acquires a North Carolina Address
· New York time
A future data center is dividing Stokes County, North Carolina, where NPR visited the proposed site's location. The disagreement brings the physical footprint of digital infrastructure into a local setting. The cloud is an especially successful name for something people can imagine floating somewhere else. A data center gives that abstraction an address and neighbors, who must consider the project as a place rather than a symbol of technological progress. The debate concerns what the development means for the county. Enthusiasm for digital services does not automatically settle opinions about the facilities behind them. America has become comfortable asking computers to handle more work. It is still negotiating where the computers should sit. The cloud, it turns out, cannot satisfy every land-use preference by hovering politely.
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