Marcus Jones
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6,437 appearances
64 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
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I'm here representing our organization, which is a member-funded environmental nonprofit that educates and advocates and protects the entire Catawba Wari River Basin.
Our organization represents over 8,000 active members and nearly 3 million citizens who rely on the watershed for drinking water, recreation, and electricity.
We are concerned that the growth of local data centers may over-allocate our limited resources and decreases our ability to respond to drought.
We appreciate the opportunity to comment on the proposed 150-day moratorium and strongly support the staff's recommendation to adopt it.
Additionally, if adopted, we recommend the study considered a tiered approach, transparency, and total water consumption.
For our water resources, the most important data center metric is net water use.
A 400-megawatt facility, like the one now under construction on Morris Chapel Road, may actually evaporate more water indirectly than directly for cooling.
The nearby Catawba Nuclear Station uses approximately 5.2 million gallons per day from Lake Wylie per 400 megawatts of generation.
However, without transparency and reporting, it's difficult to know the current impact of those data centers and almost impossible to accurately forecast the industry's future.
Most years, there's plenty of water in the Catawba for drinking, irrigation, ecological flows, and industry.
However, droughts such as 2001, 2007, and today expose our vulnerabilities.
These droughts are more likely than warming climate, and we are becoming less resilient with a growing population and industrial demands.
Sustainable water management requires careful planning and robust coordination between all users, including data centers.
Thank you for your time.
I hope you will support the moratorium.
Good afternoon.
My name is Renia and I'm here to speak in support of the data center moratorium.
I'm a resident of East Charlotte.
I'm also a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
We helped organize a petition with almost 6,000 signatures opposed to the data center in East Charlotte.
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