A Missouri-based company is planning on putting up a data center in a community about eight miles north of Lake Charles, and the people who live there are not happy about it. Representative Brett Geymann, whose district includes Moss Bluff, says the people live there for a specific reason.
“Most of them work in some sort of industry here in the southwest Louisiana area or industry-related business, but they drive away from that at night to go home into the bedroom community of Moss Bluff,” Geymann said.
Representative Geymann says Moss Bluff was planned strictly as a residential community.
“There’s no heavy commercial, there’s no light industrial or heavy industrial anywhere in the Moss Buff community,” Geymann noted.
Geymann says the people of Moss Bluff want to keep it that way. While data centers themselves have garnered a great deal of controversy in recent years with the amount of resources needed to power them, Geymann says this has nothing to do with opposition to data centers, per se – the people of Moss Bluff simply do not want one in their backyard.
“You can’t solve for the fact that there are houses that are bordering the property that this is proposed on. You can’t solve for that, and people do not want to live that close to these type applications,” Geymann said.
We have reached out to the president of Azimuth Renewals, which signed an option back in April to buy about 1,200 acres of heavily wooded property where the proposed data center would go. So far, we have not heard back.
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