The Nashville Zoo wants to stop a 69,000-square-foot data center from being built steps away from its facility, which houses more than 3,000 animals.
The popular animal attraction received more than 524,000 signatures on a petition that urged city leaders to intervene with construction of DC Blox’s proposed data center.
Zoo officials fear the center will negatively impact the already-strained stormwater retention system and hurt the animals, suggesting “exposure to unabated, tonal noise and infrasound coming from this data center will have detrimental impacts on the well-being of the animals at the Zoo” in a blog post on June 24.
The zoo stated that there are not enough studies about how the center could impact the environment….