The concerns aren’t just practical, however – some fear building data centres too close to national landmarks could erase history and bury the lessons the Civil War has for future generations. “Do I want to see a data centre on the view line of this park? No, I do not. But do I recognise, since I worked in IT, that they’re necessary? Yeah, I can get that. So there is no easy answer,” Bart Wheeler, one of the living historians who works the cannon, tells the BBC. “Any interested citizen has to be worried.”
