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Resident warns council of potential health and water risks from proposed 'Project Tango' data center
Summary
During public comment at the Dec. 9 Wellington council meeting, resident Santiago Lattanzio warned that a proposed AI data center called 'Project Tango' near the Arden community could pose noise, vibration, water and power impacts; he urged residents to attend an upcoming county commissioners meeting. Council did not respond during the comment.
A Wellington resident used public comment time on Dec. 9 to raise concerns about a proposed AI data center he said is being expedited through county channels and would be built close to homes and a school.
Santiago Lattanzio told the council he was speaking to inform them about "Project Tango," an industrial AI data center he said would be sited near the Arden community and within about 1,200 feet of Saddleview Elementary School and roughly 1,600 feet of the nearest Arden home. Lattanzio asserted the project would be about 1,700,000 square feet and said the developer had been vague about cooling methods and water use.
Lattanzio made several specific claims and framed them as public-safety and public-health concerns: he said chronic noise and vibration would affect students’ learning; he said the data center would demand "about 1.2 terawatts of... terawatt hours of power," would use large amounts of water (he estimated roughly one-quarter of Wellington’s potable water consumption), and that cooling-disposal methods under consideration could include deep-well injection or discharging high-temperature wastewater to nearby waterways, which he said could jeopardize the local water table.
He urged residents to attend a county commissioner meeting the following morning at 9:30 a.m. to register opposition and to contact county commissioners. Lattanzio also told the council the project would produce 75-foot buildings that would "tower over our community."
Council did not record a staff or developer response during the public-comment item; no one from the developer was recorded responding at the meeting.
What was said and what to verify
- Claim: Project Tango is about 1,700,000 square feet and would demand "about 1.2 terawatts" of power. Status: resident assertion recorded in public comment; not substantiated in the meeting; reader should verify power and water estimates with the project proponent and county permitting records. - Claim: Cooling disposal could include deep-well injection or discharging high-temperature wastewater to waterways. Status: resident assertion; no developer response recorded during the meeting; county permitting documents should be consulted for cooling and wastewater plans.
The council meeting record shows no formal action taken by the Village of Wellington on Project Tango at this meeting; Lattanzio encouraged residents to appear at a county hearing.
