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He and his wife, Lorie, started the group Woodsdale and Trenton Environmental Resistance (W.A.T.E.R.), which had 248 members on Facebook as of Feb. 12."},{"_id":"QYMVFVITFZEFLPZ423LIRIVFKE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Blankenship said they are fighting the data center due to “transparency issues” and lack of information from Prologis and the Trenton city government."},{"_id":"AMWZNW65SVEPPJYZAUDXAAAAMA","type":"raw_html","content":"\n\n"},{"_id":"HBJYAMOOBFCIRGOPKVODRAYEKU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“We are asking the city to put this data center on pause because I asked at the last meeting to do a moratorium ... that way we can get information we need, the city can get information they need and everybody can come together and be on the same page, whether it’s built or whether it’s not,” he said."},{"_id":"MQ3BVL5APFC37DLW7IFHH4V7QM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"If it’s not built, Blankenship thinks that will be better for the community, but if it is built, he said, “At least we will have some input and say as citizens to how to make that data center as safe as possible for everybody in this community.”"},{"level":3,"_id":"7PNH4MAI7FC6ZNGEEHQQPHEOKM","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"‘Next steps’"},{"_id":"XQR3YSFZDBFFFGWXWNL5TXSVGU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"As of Jan. 29, preliminary plans are under review by city staff, which is ongoing and “no formal determinations have been made” in regard to the plans, according to Trenton city spokesman Stas Beresford."},{"_id":"2KPXR5JHIRGJHIOKEWKSJUIIZY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Plans have not been reviewed by the city’s planning commission; the project is tentatively scheduled for consideration at the March 9 planning commission meeting."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"coxohio"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"fee32533b49b8c55a826a2f18312e1869b7357cfcbd361ef0b7a062b85612e8d"},"caption":"The city of Trenton could see an almost 1 million-square-foot data center on 141 acres of undeveloped land. 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