The enormous investment in private and public resources for the additional energy infrastructure required by data centers requires a higher level of planning, avoidance of impact and mitigation of unavoidable impacts than just a commitment to carbon free energy. Carbon is not a surrogate for all environmental impacts nor does it trump concerns about impacts on local communities and conservation values.
As you well know, the concentration of impacts and risk associated fish data centers and energy infrastructure are concentrated in certain areas. Whether the data centers themselves or the transmission or the nuclear plant or the solar array, certain places bear a higher load and risk than others.
We need a commitment now to set aside 10 percent of the proposed investment to provide mitigation funds for impacts on communities and conservation values. Those funds need to made available to the places bearings the burden of economic change.
The enormous investment in private and public resources for the additional energy infrastructure required by data centers requires a higher level of planning, avoidance of impact and mitigation of unavoidable impacts than just a commitment to carbon free energy. Carbon is not a surrogate for all environmental impacts nor does it trump concerns about impacts on local communities and conservation values.
As you well know, the concentration of impacts and risk associated fish data centers and energy infrastructure are concentrated in certain areas. Whether the data centers themselves or the transmission or the nuclear plant or the solar array, certain places bear a higher load and risk than others.
We need a commitment now to set aside 10 percent of the proposed investment to provide mitigation funds for impacts on communities and conservation values. Those funds need to made available to the places bearings the burden of economic change.