Albert Gonzalez
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3,002 appearances
51 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 15 Sep
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Motion to excuse Council Member Cox.
Second.
Yes.
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welcome thank you this regards a I'd like to suggest that the city look into a ballot measure to increase data center electricity rates by way of introduction I've lived in Santa Clara since 1986 I've interacted with
Virtually every department in the city, police, fire, permits, roads, water, sewage, and especially the Silicon Valley Power, they're all excellent.
The only thing I would like to suggest is that we change rates CB6 and CB7,
Residents currently pay twice as much electricity rates as large industrial customers, and we should, because of Prop 26, create a ballot measure so that we can increase these rates for large industrial customers that already consume 90% of Silicon Valley Power's production.
Even just a one cent per kilowatt hour increase, that would take data centers from paying nine cents to 10 cents, whereas we residents pay 15 to 18.
That increase from nine cents to 10 cents for large industrial customers would provide $46 million per month.
That's over half a billion dollars a year
to the city of Santa Clara and Silicon Valley Power.
And this is based on Silicon Valley Power's fact sheet, industrial customers consuming four billion kilowatt hours every month.
Lance Salame, I hope that's correct, has said, I consider data centers to be the tapeworms of the city.
I know there's council members that would like to see rates increase.
We need a ballot measure in order to increase these rates.
It would provide a wealth of benefits for the residents, and it would prevent the data centers from completely taking over our utility.
Every one cent increase would increase the Silicon Valley Power 5% payment to the city of Santa Clara by 27 billion annually.
This money could be used to create fallback funds in case future infrastructure projects don't quite work out as planned in terms of payback.
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