Kevin Park
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 1 Sep
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And again, I think that the CEO of SVP said it, which is if we double the power our city uses, the amount residents use would largely stay the same, reducing that percentage from about 6%, 5.8% down to 3%, which should mean that the rates would go down because our...
our percentage of the power should go down.
But why aren't the rates going down with this math?
And the short answer is because we are paying for the infrastructure and we get benefits from that.
I mean, you said it out loud, which is we're not just bringing in new infrastructure for the sake of bringing in more power,
We're also replacing a lot of old infrastructure.
But again, I want every single person to know that if we removed a single mid-sized data center from this city, we could double the population of this city without requiring a single megawatt of additional power.
Like I want people to keep that number in mind.
This is a big thing.
And the fact that we keep increasing our rates while we are making more and more money on SVP, that's simply to put things in the general fund.
And right now, this is problematic because all of our money
We've got a $1.7 billion city.
We take out SVP, and we'll give them a lion's portion of the budget.
That's still a $1 billion budget, which is multiple times that of neighboring cities, multiple times that of neighboring cities that are larger than the city of Santa Clara.
And while they're putting in place new city halls and new civic centers and putting in place downtowns,
and the main streets and revitalizing the retail areas that we have.
We are losing infrastructure in this city.
We've lost the International Swim Center.
We've lost Great America.
We are in the process of losing Great America and there's no way to get something like that back.
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