Wilmington residents take aim at industrial zoning for data centers with ballot referendum

Wilmington residents take aim at industrial zoning for data centers with ballot referendum

Wilmington residents are aiming to take control over a major land use decision that could nearly double the size of industrial data centers in the area.The move would take the city from having about 500 acres of land zoned for data centers to over 1,000. The referendum is to target the Ardent/TAC data dcenters rezoning vote, a separate project from the ongoing Amazon Web Services data center project.Jessica Sharp, a Wilmington resident and a lea…