Multiple residents urged the Board to extend or make permanent the temporary moratorium on data‑center applications, citing concerns about water and electricity use, noise, lighting, property impacts and the need for independent studies and transparent fiscal analysis before approvals proceed.

Multiple residents urged Paulding County commissioners to extend the moratorium on data-center permits and to repeal the TPOD overlay, calling the TPOD spot zoning and raising concerns about notice, infrastructure, and environmental impacts.

Multiple residents at the board meeting urged commissioners to extend or strengthen the moratorium on technology park overlays and to prevent data center campuses from being sited next to residential neighborhoods and schools; speakers raised concerns about water use, noise, lighting, property values, NDAs and transparency.

Dozens of residents addressed the board after passage of the moratorium, urging a longer suspension, independent financial and environmental review, clearer disclosure of incentives and stronger public engagement than just an email inbox.

Residents from Menlo Station and neighboring areas told the Paulding County Board of Commissioners they fear health, traffic and property-value impacts from a planned Reynolds Road waste transfer station; Capital Waste representatives said the facility will follow state and federal operating and environmental standards and offered to meet with residents.