Appalachia Daily Update – November 27, 2025 (remix) cover art

Appalachia Daily Update – November 27, 2025 (remix)

Appalachia Daily Update – November 27, 2025 (remix)

Listen for free

View show details

About this listen

 Holiday giving in Cherokee County: Shop with a Cop and Toys for TotsCherokee County’s holiday giving season is in full swing, with Shop with a Cop, the Sheriff’s Christmas Joy program, and Toys for Tots all working to make sure local kids and seniors are not forgotten this Christmas.* The Murphy Police Department partners with Walmart for its annual Shop with a Cop event, a tradition that started in two thousand four and now sends local children shopping with officers for gifts and essentials.* The Christmas Joy program run through the Sheriff’s Reserve collects donations from residents and businesses, then works with schools and the Senior Center to identify kids and older adults who need help.* Toys for Tots – Cherokee County, NC has donation boxes at local businesses and churches, plus special collection events and a cut off date shared by churches like Saint William in Murphy.News as of: November 27, 2025.Sources:https://www.townofmurphync.com/police/page/shop-cophttps://cherokeesheriffsfoundation.org/wp/christmas-joy/https://cherokeecountychamber.chambermaster.com/events/details/shop-with-a-cop-fundraiser-44433https://murphy-nc.toysfortots.org/https://www.cherokeescout.com/events/day-planner-298https://st-william.net/news/toys-for-tots-cut-offFrom bitcoin to AI: Marble data center powers upA former textile factory and later bitcoin mine near Marble is being transformed into a high-density data center for artificial intelligence, marking another big shift in how this huge facility fits into Cherokee County’s economy.* The roughly two hundred fifty thousand square foot plant, once part of American Thread, previously hosted industrial crypto mining and now is being retooled for AI and other compute-intensive workloads.* Operator Core Scientific markets the Marble campus as a secure, high-density data center with more than one hundred three megawatts of capacity on about seventy acres, built for AI and storage.* GPU cloud provider CoreWeave has signed multi year deals to lease significant data center capacity from Core Scientific, part of a larger national boom in AI infrastructure that analysts say is changing the company’s business model.* Commentators note that the Marble site could end up running massive clusters of Nvidia GPUs for generative AI, drawing power equivalent to tens of thousands of homes and raising long term questions about jobs, tax revenue, and grid capacity.News as of: Update of previous stories dated August 13, 2024, and December 17, 2024.Sources:https://www.cherokeescout.com/local-newsletter/crypto-mining-aihttps://www.cherokeescout.com/local-newsletter/local-plant-turns-ai-expandhttps://corescientific.com/high-density-data-centers/marble-nc/https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/coreweave-to-lease-16mw-of-data-center-space-from-cryptominer-core-scientific/https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/28/bitcoin-miner-core-scientific-upgraded-to-buy-on-ai-data-center-boom-h-c-wainwrightThanksgiving travel and seat belt enforcementWith Thanksgiving travel in full swing, state and local law enforcement are stepping up seat belt enforcement on North Carolina highways, including the routes mountain families rely on to visit friends and relatives.* AAA projects about two point three million North Carolinians will travel fifty miles or more this Thanksgiving, the highest number on record for the state.* The N.C. Governor’s Highway Safety Program is running a statewide Click It or Ticket campaign from November twenty four through November thirty, stressing seat belt use and sober driving.* Extra patrols are out on interstates and mountain corridors, with agencies from Raleigh to Asheville and the far west focusing on unbuckled drivers, speeding, and impairment.* Nationally, AAA expects close to eighty million Americans traveling at least fifty miles, making this one of the busiest and riskier travel windows of the year.News as of: November 27, 2025.Sources:https://www.ncdot.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/2025/2025-11-24-thanksgiving-seat-belt-enforcement.aspxhttps://newsroom.acg.aaa.com/aaa-over-2-million-north-carolinians-expected-to-travel-for-thanksgiving/https://www.witn.com/2025/11/24/statewide-thanksgiving-click-it-or-ticket-campaign-underway/https://828newsnow.com/news/228822-use-your-seatbelt-apd-launches-thanksgiving-click-it-or-ticket-campaign/Thanksgiving help: free community meal and shelter optionsFor neighbors who are struggling this Thanksgiving, Cherokee County has options for both a holiday meal and a safe place to stay.* REACH of Cherokee County and the Rotary Club of Murphy are hosting a free community Thanksgiving dinner in downtown Murphy on Thursday, November twenty seventh, from eleven a.m. to two p.m. at eighty five Hiwassee Street. The event is open to everyone, with walk-through and drive-through service.* The Murphy Shelter / Cherokee County Homeless Shelter provides food, clothing, and shelter to men, women, and families in need, with a listed ...
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.