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All right, it's 5:30 and we'll call this
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public hearing to order.
Uh read the notice of public hearing

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Town Board, Town Hudson.
Notice given that Town Board Town

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Hudson Town Board will conduct a public
hearing Wednesday, September 9th

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at 5:30 p.m.
to consider a proposed ordinance

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regarding the regulation of data centers
within the Town of Hudson.

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Town residents would like to attend to
provide comments on the proposed

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ordinance women.
A copy of the proposed ordinance may be

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obtained
at Town Hall or reviewed at Town Hall.

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So,
I see one person in the audience.

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Uh
we should just note for the record that

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we're not recording this in the town's
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and not uh videoing.
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so,
if the one person in attendance would

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like to speak, please put your name on
the list and uh

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say your piece.

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» I got you.

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» Stephen Larson, 813 Hunter View Road,
Hudson.

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The only thing I'd like to speak to on
this is I protest.

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I'm against it.
And I'll tell you why.

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Nowhere in this
ordinance, this proposed ordinance,

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is
telling us what the size of the data

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center is. What
What is a data center?

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It does define it as a storage facility
for a computer.

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But I'm somebody that has worked in data
centers for decades.

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That are in residential facilities or
residential zones.

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And I think we're
we're writing an ordinance that is

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based on fear and not on fact.
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not many here have been around a data
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The pictures that are shown are dealing
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data centers across large areas of land.
And I've been in some that are

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maybe a few acres in size.
But I will tell you this.

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They're not as loud as people believe
they are.

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I don't believe they take in near as
much water.

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The
The piece that I guess I'd like to

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remind
the audience is that

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they are a job-based
facility that pays very well.

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So keep that part in mind.
And the other

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article I'd like to go to I found on the
county website. They talked about from

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the
an electric co-op's perspective on data

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centers.
And like they say, you you put one of

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these things if one of these were to go
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they do help to lower the cost of of uh
electricity to the consumer

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because it's a steady base load and that
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changes in the uh
which is what causes costs to go up.

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But somewhere I was hoping Dan would be
they're tonight. There um

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I saw I believe it was on the county
website and they tried to stipulate what

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a size of data center would be and it
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like the size of my garage.
Are we going to tell people you can't

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put computers in your garage if if it's
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cuz we'll classify it as a data center.
To me that would seem really odd.

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So anyway, I'm just I'm I'm of the
belief that this ordinance is really not

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needed. It's too vague and it ain't but
in the event that anybody was to come

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into the town of Hudson and try to put
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a data center that's
going to make people uncomfortable,

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I believe it would be caught in the
planning commission and in the board

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before any approval would be taking
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that's my piece.
>> Well, thank you.

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Uh would anybody else like to speak
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uh the proposed data center ordinance?
This is your opportunity to share your

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thoughts with us.
And if so, come to the microphone.

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» Yeah, but
I haven't had an opportunity to read

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this.
I tried to find it online and it wasn't

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there.
>> Would you sign in, please?

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Where? Oh.
Sorry.

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Um
I'm against the data center

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at this time
because we don't really know enough

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about it and how they're reacting on the
other side of Wisconsin.

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And for the fact that they are big drain
on our light work.

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They have to have
more power lines put in, more utilities

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put in that's being passed on to me,
the resident of the town.

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And my electricity has already gone up
immensely.

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I'm also very much against them in the
last there are a lot of requirements and

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regulations as how they're built.
If they are built because of

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batteries
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a tub
underneath it, so that any leakage,

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corrosion, anything is caught inside
that tub, cannot get into the ground

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water
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can be cleaned up.
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as I was listening to the news tonight
and finding out all these AI people are

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quitting their jobs because they're
scared to death about AI as well, too.

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That
we need to take a while to figure out

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what is exactly going on.
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the Foxconn thing where we're going to
go in, we're going to create all of

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these jobs, which
I don't know that much about the jobs

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other than the ones that I researched
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the people that are employed are
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And they're going to be working in a
dark area around a lot of noise. They're

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going to have a lot of hearing problems
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And they're only going to have maybe
four to five people along with a

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security guard working.
That's not adding a lot to

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our taxes.
And if you do choose to put in the data

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center
I'd like the requirement that

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the people have to live
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in the state.
Nobody coming over from Minnesota,

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nobody sitting in California,
Texas,

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anywhere else doing it you know, from
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They have to reside in the state
Wisconsin and be paying our taxes.

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And I wish I would have had more time to
read this because I'm sure there's other

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things, but
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don't feel that we should be doing
anything at this time until there's more

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information available from the plant cuz
there's other ones that are going up on

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the other side of the state, which are
creating a lot of problems.

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Thank you.
>> Thank you.

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» And
wasn't very well advertised in the

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paper.
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If you didn't get the serendipitous
search the

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whole thing, you didn't know what was
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» Got you.
Thank you both for sharing your

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feedback.
>> Ma'am, did you see there's a sign-up

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sheet on that table?
>> Yes, I did.

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» you to be in get information as it's
happening here?

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» Oh, no, I didn't see that.
>> Okay, there is a a sign-up over there if

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you'd want to sign your email, and then
you will be on the list, and then you'll

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get notified when we have we're going to
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things that are happening.
>> Yeah, please do that because that's an

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easy way for us to stay in touch with
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» I mean, I'll admit I'm not the most
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But I am
>> We would love to have you on the

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newsletter.
>> Okay, thank you.

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» Any other uh uh
citizen comments?

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All of hearing none, I guess we
No, not public hearing. Yeah, I mean, I

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I I think then we'll we'll close the
public hearing. Somebody want to make a

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motion to do that?
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» I'll second it.
>> Motion by Don, second by Susan. All

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those in favor of closing the public
hearing, signify by saying aye.

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» Aye.
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Opposed? Motion carries 3-0.
All right. That concludes our

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public hearing for

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Go Pats.
>> Go Packers.

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» Pats.
>> Packers.

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» Patriots.
>> Go Packers.

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