{"id":153640,"date":"2025-09-22T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153640\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:58:08","slug":"officials-make-changes-to-computing-center-permit-after-pollution-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153640\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials make changes to computing center permit after pollution concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services has responded to concerns about pollution surrounding a new Upstate computing center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Southern Environmental Law Center sent a letter to SCDES in August with concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/08\/25\/we-are-good-neighbor-investors-responds-pollution-concerns-computing-facility\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/08\/25\/we-are-good-neighbor-investors-responds-pollution-concerns-computing-facility\/\">$2.8 billion Valara Data Center<\/a> coming to Spartanburg County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a formal comment period, SCDES added algorithms to calculate the center\u2019s monthly emissions and requires the facility to maintain records on the data. The center will also have to conduct formaldehyde testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Valara center is expected to begin operations in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services has responded to concerns about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4323,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-153640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}