The Delaware legislature slipped $7.5 million into the state’s capital budget to provide a grant for a data center that has drawn some opposition from the residents of Middletown.
Representative Quinn Johnson, who represents the Middletown area, supports the data center and the power plant that goes along with it.
But the Wilmington News Journal reports that Pete Sullivan, a member of Residents Concerned About the Middletown Power Plant, said residents urged Johnson to oppose the measure in the budget.
They have raised questions about emissions, air pollution and noise among other concerns.
But the paper reports that the Middletown Democrat defended the plant saying that debt would provide money for the funding.
The complex would spread out over 228,000 square acres and would include 52.5 megawatt, natural gas power plant for the data center.
