On July 17th the paper titled Why Arizona Needs a Ban on Data Centers: Truth be Told as Chapter One was caused to be submitted to Governor Hobbs and Attorney General Mayes, and others, with the follow-up paper Arizona Quantum and Battery Energy Storage Systems, as Chapter two.

The initial paper has caused great concern over a colossal number of issues which you can read below. As of August 31st, the Attorney General is asking the Governor and the State Legislature for a moratorium on centers. The govenor is oppsed in favor of uncontroled growth.

AG Mays mentioned the matter with the Menlo project in Ahwatukee that is raised in the paper of July 17^th.  Her press release states:

“Mayes also noted that data centers have sparked intense opposition, especially where communities were not properly consulted and where developers are building onsite power generation in or near residential neighborhoods. 

Attorney General Mayes will hold a town hall in Ahwatukee on October 14th to hear from concerned community members about Menlo Digital’s planned hyperscale data center project. Additional details on the townhall will be announced in the coming weeks”

The Gila River Indian Community is adjacent to Ahwatukee to the South and Souteast. They have been invited to the meeting as the will be affected by ground vibratiions, air quaility, noise pollution and have three endangered species.

Chapter 1 of the evidenced based paper titled “Why Phoenix Needs a Ban on Data-AI-Quantum Centers and BESS Projects: Truth be Told” was submitted, covering  Data and AI centers as Chapter 1, and Phoenix-Quantum Centers and Battery Energy Storage Systems, Chaptwer Two.

This addresses the Menlo Digital project in Ahwatukee, AZ that bypassed proper zonong reqiurements as it is next to residential and is a high industrial project now zoned as comercial park setting. 

Saturday August 29th the paper titled Why Maricopa Needs a Ban on Data-AI-Quantum Centers and BESS Projects, Chapters One and Two were submitted to the city. It will be brought to the open forum at the council meeting Tuesday September 1st.

It can be put this way….you have the right to help us fight the

so-called data center trend!

There are many issues known and unknown with the generalized term “data centers.”  One needs to be informed to overcome the disinformation and propaganda in favor of these societal and cultural disruptors.

There are many categories of what is termed “centers” with specific use, size, engineered operations, etc. They can be anywhere from a computer room, a small server room to a larger server room, off-site rooms, small and large off-site centers, to hyperscale centers. The short list is this:

General Data Storage Centers

Cloud Storage:

       Public Cloud, Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud 

Fusion Centers:

       (80 Primary Federal DHS & Recognized State Operated for                         Intelligence Analysis)  

Secured Information Data Centers (Gov)

Digital Coin Minning

Data Mining

AI Centers

AI Training

AGI or Artifical General Inelligence

ANI or Artifical Narrow Intelligence

ASI or Artifical Super Intelligence

Colocation Centers 

Mixed Use Centers

Yes, the list goes on.

This is why they are termed centers as they have different purposes. The Applicants and Principals on a given project do not disclose what a center may be used for due to security reasons, trade secrets, etc. The controlling reason being  that in order for a center project to pay the bills they sell or lease out space to other interested parties. 

There were 4,287 centers in March and now the 25th of September there are 4,767 as the numbers continue to grow rapidly. The national data center map is updated regularly so the numbers posted will change. The federal government has given huge incentives for new centers commissioned before January 1, 2030.

You may peruse the Data Center Moratorium, Construction and AI Legislation Map for a larger picture.

Project developers say and do a lot to get their foot in the door but there is a lack of statistics on how much holds true to the end of their rhetoric. 

Most municipalities and counties do not have any codes in place of which to protect themselves, the citizens they sever and the environment from the harm centers cause. 

June 4th in Albany N.Y. the vote will be taken on S9144A/A10141A - Statewide Data Center Moratorium Bill. Worked  until 04:30am to get all of the updates in. As of the afternoon, the Bill passed. 

THE WANT FOR PROJECT URGENCY:

The administration in DC is in want to build 16 agency specific data centers projects with any additionals for consideration on Federal land for development is on the table as well. Four specific locations are the Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Reservation, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant and the Savannah River Site. One needs to ask themselves, why so many centers in the USA? 

NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS:

One of the largest concerns is with the growth of projects for centers across the country as some 200 are in waiting. Why so...mass surveillance of the populace with expansion since 9-11. As such, it is not lawful to utilized components from countries of concern, e.g. China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba. 

This can be found in the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2019, the Department of Justice Data Security Rule through Executive Order  14117  that restricts transactions involving "bulk sensitive personal data" by countries of concern, and that are implemented by the Bureau of Industry and Security. This would prevent a project/center from being built  as they cannot stop components from these countries, and all centers handle government data in one form or another. 

The trend now is for rural area land exploitation which brings down property values 5 to 15 percent at current levels. This is accomplished in part by Palantir Technologies, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and data center REITs Digital Realty, Equinix, Prologis and Cloverleaf, DOD, Kevin O'Lear, Vermaland LLS. (Arizona), West Holdings (Arizona) and cannot forget Bill Gates and others.