Tag Archive for: Data Centers

Video: The Pros and Cons of Datacenters

Jenny Thacker presents her take on data centers, specifically whether they are appropriate for Jefferson County. She doesn't deny that they will provide some jobs especially jobs for tradespeople, such as electricians. But, the number of permanent jobs they create are few, especially in consideration of the negative effects of the threats to our ground water and to the cost of our electricity. Those costs will impact everyone in the county. So are are they worth it? Watch and listen to her video the Pros and Cons of Datacenters.

Data Centers: Talk of the Panhandle

The topic of data centers is contentious for communities actually or potentially impacted by them. It's so contentious that our Republican dominated legislature has taken away the rights of these communities to regulate them and even to have them at all. John Doyle makes the case that these community rights legislated away for now have to be reconsidered and restored in future legislative sessions.

We Have Come To an Inflection Point

It is a given that our Republican governor, Patrick Morrisey, wants to push as many data centers into the state as it will hold. And worse, he wants to do this without local community input. Stewart Acuff lays out the massive hurt that this will cause to our state and argues for a defiant stand in our upcoming elections to un-elect those legislators that sold us out.