Kevin Park
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18,663 appearances
74 recordings
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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It's an order of magnitude larger than the large data centers, for example.
It's a range.
I know they want to start with manufacturing first before the retail, hotel, restaurant phase of it.
Again, I'm just wondering if that is one of the reasons why they haven't done the groundbreaking.
if it will maybe take two or three years before we actually get something going with that project.
Thank you.
Yeah, I just want to put a lot of this stuff into context, which is I had written down that we had about 750 megawatts.
uh... for the city i mean we you told us that we had seven hundred eighty it's a new new peak for us a couple weeks ago that's that's really good and residential is about six percent of that load so i put down about forty megawatts and when we look at the amount of of power that uh... data center takes a single data center takes as much energy as the entire residential base of the city like i want to put this in perspective i want everyone to hear this which is if we close down one or two of our
60 or so data centers we could actually double the residential power for you know we could double the number the population of the city without having to do a single thing without having to generate any additional power I want to say that if we reduced our data center power by 3% we could increase our residential by 100% we could double our population
And I know where we're doing this, which is money, and we talk about money going to our general fund, and I think that this is a good thing, but I want to put that in perspective, too, which is our general fund, for people who don't know, I mean, that's what we use for things that aren't earmarked for things.
That's where our salaries and pensions come from.
In fact, the reason that we say salaries and pensions is because 70% of our salaries and pensions, 70% of the general fund is used for salaries and pensions.
and 50% of the general fund is used for public safety.
And that's twice as large, just the amount of money in our general fund that we spend on public safety is twice as large as the entire general fund for the city of Cupertino.
It is as large as the general fund for the city of Sunnyvale, and you should look it up, because I've certainly done it.
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,
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