Dante Anderson

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Charlotte City Council · City Council Business Meeting on 2026-06-08 5:00 PM - Jun 08, 2026 · 8 Jun 2026 meeting

I'm really proud of the work that we're doing now.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank all of you all for coming out and having a continued level of engagement around a variety of different topics.

This topic of data centers is something that is not new but has bubbled up in a very meaningful way over the last several months, not only here in Charlotte but really throughout the entire country as we're looking at the

proliferation of hyperscale data centers and different types of data centers that we haven't seen traditionally.

I think it's important to know as we ask questions through this process and staff that provided us information, we have data centers in our community here in the city of Charlotte that have been around since 1990.

Um, and so that's what I mean when I say it's not a new issue, but what we now have to see is we are operating in a 21st century and with the advanced technologies that really advanced on an exponential level, uh, because that's the way tech works.

We have to understand what the impacts are to communities.

We have to understand what the impacts are to the environment, the impacts to small children.

and having these facilities close approximate to K-12 schools.

And so that is, I hope, part of the work that we'll do during this moratorium.

The other thing that I think we can do is be very savvy about what the General Assembly allows us to do here at the local level.

So looking at the types of data centers that might move forward, looking at the technologies, whether it's a closed loop system, whether it takes advantage of chilling the chips right there on site rather than having a large water chilling system, whether it's having what is called

behind the meter strategies, which means that all of that electricity and all of that power source is right there on that site and not pulling from our municipal utility and then therefore having an adverse effect on your rates that you pay as regular citizens.

So a lot of that work is going to be done.

I commend our staff on immediately standing up an interdisciplinary team to look at this.

There's a lot of newness to it.

So as you all advocate, I just want you all to extend some grace to staff as we're navigating through this, because there really is no rubric around how you actually specifically deal with this.

We are learning as we go.

We're learning from others who might be a step or two ahead of us.

And we're trying to be nimble to make sure that we're taking care of your needs, our residents, and making sure that our city is safe.

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