A meeting focused on a data center proposal in Foristell, Missouri, has been postponed after it became clear that the hosting venue was unable to accommodate the turnout.

According to Fox, more than 100 residents attempted to attend a board of aldermen meeting on Monday. But not all interested parties could fit inside the venue, leading the aldermen to postpone the meeting until a more suitable location could be found.

Monday’s meeting concerned, among other things, the potential annexation of more than 400 acres of land for the purpose of constructing a data center.

The application was submitted by two property firms: the Missouri-based Longhorn Property Management and the Iowa- and Nebraska-based RR Realty Holdings.

It is unclear which company the end-user of the facility will be.

An application for annexation is different from an application for the construction of a data center. According to a Facebook post made by Mayor of Foristell Bradley Miller, no application for data center construction has been submitted to the local authority.

Increasingly, the intensity of anti-data center opposition in the US has forced local authorities to delay votes and meetings as venues become unable to accommodate audience turnout.

Last December, a similar situation emerged in Lowell Township, Michigan, when a public hearing regarding a data center application was suspended after the venue was unable to handle the number of residents showing up.

But this is one of the more benign ways in which the data center issue has changed the dynamics of local government.

As opposition to data centers grows stronger, tensions between residents and local authorities are beginning to boil over.

In December 2025, councilwoman Amy Drake of the St. Joseph County Council in New Carlisle, Indiana, claimed that her family was ‘swatted’ during a data center meeting that saw a $12 billion facility fail to acquire planning permission.

Drake had voted against the proposal, attributing the incident to “bad actors who wanted to harass my family and intimidate me and my vote.”

In the same month, three anti-data center advocates in Port Washington, Wisconsin, were arrested by local police after authorities claimed they had disrupted the meeting. Videos of the three being dragged out of a room by police officers were widely shared on social media after the incident.