Resident raises environmental concerns about data centers, bees and aquifer thermal storage
A speaker with university research experience urged Temple to study potential ecological impacts of data‑center operations, citing research on heat and air pollution effects on pollinators and the possibility of aquifer thermal energy storage wells affecting groundwater temperature.
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Marcy Goodfash of Temple told the council she had reviewed university research indicating that heat and air pollution can harm bee populations and that aquifer thermal energy storage (ATS) — potentially used by data centers — could draw and return water to aquifers with unknown thermal effects.
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