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Residents urge moratorium and stronger environmental review for proposed hyperscale AI data center
Summary
Multiple residents told the Imperial County Board of Supervisors they oppose a proposed hyperscale AI data center near residential neighborhoods and asked the board to support a temporary moratorium, mandatory discretionary environmental review, setback buffers and independent verification of developer claims.
Scores of residents used the public comment periods at the Imperial County Board of Supervisors’ March 3 meeting to press the board for clearer positions and stronger controls on a proposed hyperscale AI data center. Francisco Ladd told the board the project is “not a routine warehouse” and asked supervisors to support a temporary moratorium on new data centers, discretionary environmental review near homes, minimum setback distances from houses, schools and parks, and independent verification of developers’ claims about water use and electric demand.
Several speakers raised related…
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