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Public commenter warns council about data-center development and regional grid impacts
Summary
A visitor from another county warned Lincoln officials about social, land-use and grid impacts associated with large data-center projects and related power infrastructure, urging vigilance and local ordinance review.
Tim Leperge, a resident of Flemore County representing Digi North Dakota, addressed the council during public comment on May 22 to raise concerns about data-center and crypto-mining development in rural areas and broader grid and land-use impacts.
Leperge described large campus-style facilities that host crypto mining, artificial-intelligence processing and data storage. “They are building a multiple facility. They do crypto mining, and they are also gonna do artificial intelligence…they do a lot of storage of data,” he told the council.
He described community effects he has…
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