An unexpected activist emerged to help block a $5 billion data center in Maryland
NPR's article by WAMU reporter Jenny Abamu tells how Taylor Frazier McCollum — evicted with her young daughter in 2024 and without a home of her own — became the unlikely face of opposition to a $5 billion data center proposed for the vacant Landover Mall site in Prince George's County, Maryland. Her petition drew over 25,000 signatures, protests followed, and county moratoriums blocked the project; she now wants a full ban and pitches redeveloping the site as housing or a sports complex, even as council member Wanika Fisher backs moving some projects forward.
