How data centers in Missouri converted neighbors into activists, from cities to farms
Jennifer-Ryan Barker holds up a sign expressing her opposition to a proposed data center being discussed during a special meeting of the Pacific Board of Aldermen at Pacific City Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Also pictured is Keith Ketcherside, seated to the right with a beard, whose property abuts Crooked Creek Farm, the suggested site for a 500-acre data center near Pacific. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)
David Carson, Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — The letters were hand-delivered in the January cold, slid into mailboxes along Sugar Lake Road by an unknown person who had signed them, “A Concerned Citizen.”
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