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Resident warns JPS board about water impacts if data centers are approved; cites 2022 water crisis
5782075 · September 18, 2025
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Summary
A public commenter urged the school board to consider where cooling water for proposed data centers would come from and how that use would affect Jackson’s already-stressed water system.
Erin Shirley Ory appeared during public comment to urge the Jackson Public School District board not to approve any data-center-related actions until the source and impact of cooling water are clarified.
Ory described multiple cooling technologies used by data centers and told the board that an "evaporative cooling" hyperscale facility can use…
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