At Monday night’s Representative Town Meeting, residents and unionized construction workers disagreed over a proposal by NE Edge LLC to build a data center on the Millstone Power Station property. While residents reiterated their concerns about noise and the impact on the environment, union workers applauded the jobs it would create. First Selectman Rob Brule signed an agreement in March that calls for NE Edge to pay the town $231 million over 30 years to construct two two-story data center buildings, supplied with energy from Millstone, that would provide 1.5 million square feet of storage for cloud and data centers. Keith Brothers, who heads the Connecticut State Building Trades Council, told the RTM on Monday that his union has signed an agreement with NE Edge in which it has agreed to use local union workers and contractors. “This project is going to generate over a million man hours for the construction industry,” added Joseph Toner, the union’s executive director. “One out of every four construction workers on this project is going to be from Waterford.”
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