This article is part of Hyperscale, Hyperspeed — a series in which BPR, the NC Newsroom, WFAE and WUNC explore North Carolina's accelerating data-center boom and its real impact on local communities. As the sun set on the town of Danbury, a chorus of voices rose in front of the Stokes County Government Center. Amid clapping and whistling, a crowd of about 100 people chanted "no data centers, no data centers" during the January meeting.