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Resident raises environmental concerns about data centers, bees and aquifer thermal storage
Summary
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.
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.
"The bee population can be very much affected ... heat affects them considerably and also air pollution..." Goodfash said. She urged the city to study whether ATS would be used by incoming data centers and what the thermal impact on underground water sources might be, and offered to share her research with staff.
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