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Residents raise health and transparency concerns about Google data-center plans during Fort Wayne public comment
Summary
At the Oct. 28 council session, public commenters urged the city to press state regulators and project proponents for greater transparency and safeguards related to a large data-center project, citing diesel-generator permits, underground fuel storage and potential air-quality impacts.
At the end of the Oct. 28 Fort Wayne Common Council meeting, two members of the public used the open-comment period to press the council on separate but related community concerns.
Reverend Kimberly Koczan (zip 46805) urged city officials to amplify transparency around a proposed large data-center and to press the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for strict permitting oversight. "Google already has a permit for 36 diesel generators and ... they're adding to that to total 174 diesel generators of large size and with over 1,000,000 gallons of…
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