Butte‑Silver Bow committee pares presentation for council as Sabey data center details remain provisional

Chair Sullivan convened the Butte‑Silver Bow Ad Hoc Data Center Impact Committee on Feb. 11 to finalize slides and talking points for a county council presentation about a proposed Sabey colocation data center in the TED park.

The committee agreed to present a focused set of five primary slides covering water, power, jobs, taxes and environmental impacts and to publish a larger addendum with technical detail. "We want to hit the meat of the matter of those, the big 4," Chair Sullivan said during the meeting as members debated what to include in the pared‑down presentation.

Why it matters: the county council will see the committee's summary next Wednesday; the presentation is the committees principal vehicle for explaining the projects local impacts to elected officials and the public. Committee members stressed that the public should get readable topline figures while the appendices contain technical analyses.

On water, committee staff presented a full build‑out estimate of roughly 16,000,000 gallons per year for cooling water, noting that average daily use…