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Resident raises environmental and economic concerns about data centers and AI computing demands
5916587 · October 8, 2025
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Summary
A public commenter warned that large data centers—described as “beast buildings”—consume huge amounts of power and water, that a few companies control compute resources, and that the community should reconsider rapid data-center expansion and its environmental and economic effects.
At the public-comment portion of the meeting, Mary Burgess urged county leaders and residents to consider the environmental and economic impacts of large data centers that host artificial-intelligence compute.
Burgess described compute centers as “beast buildings” that require…
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