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40:12 It's very self sustaining. Data centers to me would be an interesting topic. So they stopped what they were going do to do, due to last session, and are going Uh, I think the misunderstanding, uh, at least on my end, um, as I studied more at every golf course uses as much water as a data center and I'm a golfer I maybe we should start shutting down golf courses.Play from 40:12
45:14 We got a briefing from the PU Public Utility District, the homeless county, PUD, CIO, John Harlow. And one of the things that I thought was particularly remarkable there in light of the current questions about power and power use and data centers.Play from 45:14
44:47 …will, maybe they won't. You know, don't organize based on anti-data center rallies just for the sake of being against data centers…Play from 44:47
52:17 Councilman C. Uh yes, I'm also in support of this. Uh these data centers are not very appropriate for Scadget Valley in my opinion. Um they are delletterious to the water electric electricity environmental concerns.Play from 52:17
23:04 Being invoked is real concern, and the biggest driver is new da da da da data centers demand that could add 2 to 4 Seattle's worth of load across the Northwest by 2030 .Play from 23:04
20:45 We need a moratorum. I heard similar comments from council member Smart. I heard you say that there is a possibility that more modern data centers are bringing their own power and then some.Play from 20:45
5:25 You know, there's other parts of the process that use it. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because these data centers, you know, they're talking about the energy that that the water it's going to take to cool these data…Play from 5:25
57:13 You know, we ve done testing and sort of libraries and data centers in South County. Um, and, and, uh, score, which is one of the, the jails, um, and have had good success with that, actually.Play from 57:13
32:55 The money that they will produce is going to benefit very few people, and the risks are something that is going to affect all of us as Richland residents, especially our children and our grandchildren, with the huge environmental impacts that especially the data centers…Play from 32:55
1:33:46 Um I'm really concerned about what is happening with not the Microsoft data center, but we actually have another data center that's being built right now on the protected zone.Play from 1:33:46
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