Apc - Regular Meeting

Monday, June 8, 2026

The Miami, IN APC meeting on June 8, 2026, focused on public concerns regarding a proposed data center ordinance. Residents voiced strong opposition, citing potential negative impacts on property values, water resources, noise pollution, and limited job creation, urging the committee to re-evaluate and strengthen protective measures for the community.

About this meeting

Government Body
Apc
Meeting Type
Apc
Location
Miami County, IN
Meeting Date
June 8, 2026

Transcript

179 sections

5:35 – 5:57Speaker 13

Yeah, I think we've heard this. So a lot of those comments have been following up on this, too. So at this time, we can start making another comment. And it will be limited to two minutes. And please be respectful . So the first problem listed in class is

6:05 – 6:36Speaker 8

What did we see? So Born in 1568.

6:37 – 7:43Speaker 9

And I know that you didn't think that it was, you didn't think that it was possible to ensure the safety of these people. But I think that most people can see where it connects to other places. You know, I don't think most of us have visited them. that eat the germs that they lost in the land. They're losing their blood, and the blood's gonna have basically no food. I mean, very, very few grew up, you know, close to people, you know, without food. This is one of my people. We're gonna use everything for future generations, and then we may want bread. So that's all I have to say. But I don't know if there's any data.

8:02Speaker 13

give you comments towards the ordinance. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

8:25 – 8:54Speaker 8

I would think that our data center is still too broad in terms of how I still want to meet with the community members versus a facility company in one with just 44,000 members. Data centers should only take place on the industrial land, not B-2 or B-3, nothing like that. I don't think any property with no high coverage should be properly notified of the intention for that to be built. In addition to this, I would like for most of the community to be required to rent, whereas it doesn't pose as a duty towards general circulation and signing all the properties or meetings prior to travel periods.

8:55Speaker 10

I would like to see the seven hundred and two hundred and two hundred feet.

8:57 – 9:16Speaker 8

I've got a business, so I can't work with the four hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred and two hundred

9:28Speaker 2

Next is Julie. How about the audience?

9:57 – 11:25Speaker 8

protect the nearby homeowners and farmers from potential impacts to the property of values and equality of life. Why is it so urgent to vote for the orgies? I think we need to slow down and see what's happening all around our nation with these centers. If the data center receives tax evasions and other incentives, what guarantees will the residents have that is promised economic benefits and jobs will actually materialize? Because from what I'm seeing, it's only like 6 to 10. You know, it's not 400. So from the research that I've done. The limit up through used to expand like two miles that covered the city. What happened there? So if the ordinance goes through, we could get a data center there, or we could get a big farm there. What about all these neighborhoods?

11:27Speaker 13

Like I said, we wanted to do a minute to do the setbacks for the vision.

11:35 – 13:14Speaker 8

I just want something to all of us and our family. That's the big question. Susan Dean, you're on. Previously, I have said that if you get one, I'm going to be the Tennessee. And I found out that in Tennessee, yeah, they have new ordinances. So I spoke to the mayor of Delaware County down there in Delaware County and said, oh, I have to go look into that. I said, you know, you can get on all your sites where you're saying, you know, come to Tennessee. If you're saying you're coming back, you're going to go to Tennessee. First month they got on their sites, they lost 417,000. I did a check since last month.

13:15Speaker 1

I've been getting on their phone.

13:17 – 14:30Speaker 8

They have 40% of their new house. So people don't want to do these things at all. The average house price always goes up. That's why. My main concern that I don't know where it is, is the last time We put the coordinates down, but then they said, oh, no, that's not the right ordinance. That's the old ordinance. This is the ordinance, but we didn't see that ordinance. So we didn't really know what was going on. But the animals, the miscarriages of the animals, they didn't know this. You're having a lot of miscarriages. People are having miscarriages. You know, people who have been doing or whatever they're using their feelings because thank you so i'll be back

15:11 – 15:24Speaker 8

May 14th, we started an online and in-person session that is roughly 25 days ago.

15:25 – 16:08Speaker 2

In that 25 days, we have delivered 3,027 signatures. um but i'm really really really as you consider . Thank you. .

16:40 – 17:00Speaker 13

One of the biggest arguments in favor of data centers is that they bring job creation. If that's the case, then our partners should ensure that local residents actually benefit. Construction jobs are temporary, and many data centers operate with very few permanent employees once they leave. That is why I like to include stronger job creation requirements included in this ordinance.

17:08Speaker 2

Laura Branson.

17:09 – 17:25Speaker 8

First of all, I thank you guys for inviting me. I have a hard job, and I really think that money could be a politician's

17:37Speaker 12

I have to speak into the mic.

17:41Speaker 6

Yeah, it's registered. Here.

17:46Speaker 8

Hey, let me finish.

17:48Speaker 6

I appreciate you guys being my commissioners. I know it's not an easy job. I wouldn't want to be a politician if it's wrong to pay my solar bill right now. Nobody in the world can pay me enough money.

17:58Speaker 8

I don't think you're out there to hurt us either. I think you're hurting the health of Miami County. That's what we voted you for to do. So I appreciate it. That means to us,

18:06Speaker 6

and take everyone's concerns to heart.

18:10 – 18:29Speaker 8

Thank you. Okay, guys. I know I gave you guys all your proposals. Fulton County, Fortis County, and Miami County. I don't have time to go all in because it's too many different people.

18:29Speaker 6

I'm sure you guys would like me that was so

18:33Speaker 1

We don't have to do that. Three miles to the school.

18:36Speaker 6

You guys don't do that. You guys, when they have a $20,000 per day for Fulton County and have nothing more than that, we don't have anything for that.

19:00 – 19:17Speaker 8

We don't have anything on this board that fits data centers in it and look out. We don't have anything to say. You guys have so long to think this up. Put it in the tutorial. We don't have anything for that. I could go on and on. All this says they are so much better in the fall calendar than they are in their mining calendar.

19:18Speaker 1

So it's really sad.

19:19Speaker 8

So let me finish up. I wish I had more time to go over it, but I don't. Two minutes is not enough.

19:25Speaker 1

I'm going to save it.

19:27 – 19:41Speaker 6

It definitely needs to revamp your proposed Miami County ordinance. And it definitely needs to be revamped, because it's not protecting the people of Miami County. You're protecting the data center, not the staff. Your grant is reserved to not be about the government.

19:42 – 19:54Speaker 9

Your grant is reserved to be about the flesh and blood of every Miami County citizen. You're teaching the same thing to other people now, and teaching other people in the future your top priority.

19:57Speaker 8

I'm not going to move data centers, but you are not going to ban any data centers in Miami County.

20:02Speaker 9

Send this back to your planning committee and tell them to emphasize the protection of the people of Miami County above all else.

20:40 – 22:19Speaker 11

So I think most of us here today are concerned about when all of these centers come in, I know we worked on the ordinance, but we're all aware of the negative. I guess my question is, what is the economic advantage to allow new days to come into Miami County? Where are the residents going to get from it if we do allow one to come in? And I don't know if one of the staffs would have mentioned that, and if I look at, we would get the property taxes. But I don't know how that can happen without seeing numbers and projections, statistics, but how our property taxes may go down to that house. Sorry, we can get more information on how our taxes lay down. It seems like if we take out of the cultural land, right now the farmers are paying taxes on the agricultural land. And if the data center comes in, then they get a tax abatement and we lose part of our tax base. So I just think, with all those concerns so much about what would happen if the data center did come in, we would like to see some more, the proof that there would be something there for us. Will there be more jobs? How many more jobs? Will there be permanent jobs? Will there be just some growth in Miami County from these data centers? How are we going to get some value from that? So that's kind of like to see more of it, is if we do get money, what is the benefit for the residents?

22:19 – 22:47Speaker 13

And the reason we can't answer that is we don't know who, we don't know what will get funded. The only thing I have to go off of is what Fulton County was offering. And they were offered somewhere around $80 million up front to do projects. And they were going to give them $15 million a year for 17 years, which our county's budget was $14 million.

22:47Speaker 9

But did they have those who won't be coming in because of their recordings?

22:56Speaker 13

The reason why they have three pictures of their family and one of the visitors who changed his life, one was because of one sport, one change in him.

23:17 – 25:54Speaker 9

I'm 100% against data center from the Miami County, but should that happen, should you choose to drop the ordinance? I think that the project is important to be re-examined, examined, and re-examined in the Colton County Ordinance, as was said earlier, compared to Miami County. I hope the three of you are impressed with all the helps and the lack of detail in the Ordinance draft that's been provided to you. And while Colton County's isn't perfect, it's definitely a huge improvement to what the planning commission submitted to you. As a former teacher, I would do the best with the chance to make significant additions and raise the bid. I think that we would do the entire field county ordinance, particularly the setbacks. That's a big concern to many of us in this room. I think there needs to be setbacks even extended beyond the whole counties for subdivisions, health care facilities, and all other schools. And another thing that I think that the whole county ordinance did not include is there should be no abatement. Thank you, Dave, for the privilege to do business in it. No more than one data center in Miami County is going to move forward for a minimum of 10 years, giving all the elected officials time to evaluate the true value of a lot of potential expansion. And I did some research, and I looked at the It's now called Wisdom Tree. It's added eight land accounts to farms to its portfolio. These farms include the Savage Farm, the Brewer Farm, the Arrow Farm, the Weller Farm, the Weaver Farm, the Reeve Farm, the Murphy Farm, and the Lozenge Farm. Here's a statement about the Wisdom Tree web page status. Together, we are making a unique decision to capitalize on the next wave of growth in the farm, including solar, AI data infrastructure, and water. with a shared commitment to innovation. Syracuse and Bloomsbury being perfect land in Miami County without some sort of insurance is good to be permitted to develop a solar and more data center. We all know they are not plenty of jobs.

25:55Speaker 1

Yes, they are.

25:57Speaker 9

Can you hear me?

26:28 – 27:58Speaker 13

I certainly think of that as . You say no data center. And I know the council really . You can't do an arbitrary no data center. You can't say data center is not allowed. But any other business that wants to do those things is allowed. So if you were to say, OK, you can't use too much water, well, that gets . You can't get too much power . The noise, so basically, What you should do is put organizers about things you're concerned about. You're concerned about . You're concerned about power usage. You're concerned about, you know, at the start of the project, damaging the water table. Well, any large construction project can damage the water table, and that means nowhere else . You have to, you have to, But overall, if you're going to do this, you should do it separate.

28:24Speaker 9

Thank you, Mike.

28:50 – 29:24Speaker 7

I just wanted to say that to me, manning things was very anti-business for this area. And because Peru is slowly lumbering away, I think manning any sort of business right now is not a wise move. I don't see really too much of an issue with the ordinance. I think the setbacks could be a little better. I think you could also maybe put some stipulations on size, even smaller. But so we don't have these giant hands, which I don't think is going to happen. I don't think it's going to be able to a big major risk right in the old town.

29:25Speaker 8

That's just kind of .

29:28 – 29:46Speaker 7

But when we're talking about this state, the ordinance is currently in place basically for industrial and business only. So any concerns about reforming or residential areas, they've already put stipulations against that.

29:46Speaker 8

They won't allow them to build there.

29:51 – 30:52Speaker 7

For most of this, I think it needs to be a case-by-case. So we can go through and we can pick the ones that we want, pick the ones that we don't want. We don't need to do a complete all-out ban. And as far as concerns about only 6 to 10 people being employed at a data center, that is probably what most businesses in Peru already employ. A lot of small businesses, a lot of small factories, that's all they have is 6 to 10 people. But data centers do draw in other business types. So it's not just based on the people that are running the data center. They bring in other business as well. So that's something that you want to think about. Today, well, not today, but recently, I got word that the Peru Community School High School is going to be starting a robot program. And I don't think that anybody here has a problem with them starting a robot program from high school. And those kids are learning how to do the things that these data centers are going to be jobs for them to have. We are losing our Facebook students to other communities.

31:26 – 33:18Speaker 2

My name is and I am opposed to data centers in your residential areas. Brenda, I really want to talk about the 2,000 foot setback that you have already signed for the wind energy conversion system and meteorological tower on May 16, 2021. And that did include 2,000 foot setbacks. from any dwelling, any property line, public roads right of way, public conservation lands, wetlands, all rivers and reservoirs. So I am respectfully requesting that this same 2,000 foot at minimum on pages 4 and 5 of Ordinance 816-2021B also be adopted in the data center ordinance. All Mining Town citizens deserve this protection due to potential noise pollution and the usage of water resources. So you have assessed the precedent of 2000 by the Zip Act and I am now asking for the same requirements to be included in the data center ordinance. I know you are aware that you are sworn in as elected public servants to serve your constituents. I acknowledge that your actions will never please all of your people. all of the time I read that. But my expectation is that you take action to strengthen the current ordinance on campus centers. I encourage you to act wisely and in the best interest of citizens of Miami County. Please protect Miami County residents and our constituents against noise pollution, leasing of tax evasion monies, and unfair and grossly inappropriate usage of water and electricity. Thank you.

33:26Speaker 8

Sarah Green.

33:32Speaker 9

Hi, my name is Sarah Green. I think there are no plans for a data center to be on the table.

33:38Speaker 8

Why would that be the question? We, your constituents,

33:43Speaker 9

I would like to see you contact areas where data centers have been built and ask the people who live there about the reality of living in the data center.

34:12Speaker 8

I would like you to research what those areas would have done differently in their ordinance if they had to do it again.

34:20Speaker 9

What are some realities that they know too nice? Where do they wish they would have passed on their language?

34:27Speaker 8

Every single one of us has done that project.

34:30 – 34:47Speaker 9

And when it's over, we think, oh, wait a minute. If only I had known it was going to be like this, I would have done that. So let's learn from the experiences of areas that have been there. Once the ordinance is passed and construction begins, it will be too late to direct changes.

34:48Speaker 8

We, our constituents, are asking to make sure that we do all in our power to protect our land, resources, costs, and health.

34:58 – 35:24Speaker 9

It's easy to say, I don't care what my neighbors are going to do this time. I'm here because I saw something and they resisted directly and abandoned me. And whatever land this data center is on, everyone around will be affected. so that they don't pay any more attention. Let us take our time. Listen to us, your constituents. Take the period under our concerns to make changes and do all of your power to protect our community.

35:32Speaker 8

Richard Rowland.

35:59 – 37:31Speaker 12

being made by infrastructure to support 1,000 homes, that type of thing. But they have slumped during the last couple of years. That's flattened up the window. Now you're talking about a gigawatt. You know what a gigawatt is? A gigawatt of power, 300,000. All the new proposals can stay in the air forever. construction, all right, that's a tremendous demand on infrastructure. I don't see it happening every day. It's just a whole thing. This needs to be put in a plan for several years until you can get some terrible community that you can see the operation, follow it down, to see if there's even something vital in the future that we should need. You look at the fill-out. Left in the end, we're looking at one day a lot. Cobra, two days a lot. New Carlisle, three times a month, one set of expansion bills. Graham, one day a lot. Cochran, one day a lot. Madison in the end, going to be one of the top ten agri-center problems in the world.

37:31Speaker 13

So it's just been hard.

37:35Speaker 12

I think very much of what's going on in the community.

37:59 – 38:51Speaker 8

First of all, I do want to thank you for allowing us to speak and for considering everything since then. So I, like Tori, and like Sarah, are asking you guys to take a breath, take a pause, and wait a little longer. What are you thinking about, right? Is the possibility of tax revenue or . I'm sure you guys have all seen the recent report that was given to HR for the Annapolis. So the debtors in Indiana have bypassed paying more than $650 million.

38:54Speaker 9

Now, I'm really happy that our county level is small enough to not let that happen here in Madison County.

39:00 – 40:09Speaker 8

But how can we do that? Something that was said at the meeting that really shocked me, and this is a quote. This county has to grow. The way we are headed, if we don't grow, and the state keeps straining our budget, it seriously comes to the point of do you want to be the road officer maintenance of highway people are highway road workers they're going to have to pay us and we don't want to raise money our only choice is to build a data center or we can't afford to pay our employees i have the problem above what you mentioned i see that is the same strength in our budget Big tech companies and big politicians want us to make the failure of that everywhere to the better. It's something. There is a place for that, and I know they already got one in their hands. But let's find the right place, right? Think that you guys want that. I don't know that your idea of the right place is the same as most people's idea of the right place.

40:09Speaker 9

Maybe you genuinely think that you want that.

40:13Speaker 8

I am asking you guys, like everyone else, most people, look at the whole economy for next.

40:18Speaker 9

You said you talked to Fulton County and mediated that information out and asked some of the men.

40:23 – 40:59Speaker 8

What was that learning from the connections in place with other people? I do have one other question. I won't read the rest of this stuff. You said today that there's no plans yet for a data center here in Red Bay County. There's no plans, but at the same breath, you also said that you told somebody that was looking for a data center location that this is a terrible thing for a data center. The land owner wanted to sell the land. Okay, so that is not an official claim for example.

41:00Speaker 9

No, I agree, but I don't think that's a claim. It's not taking the land you want to take.

41:08 – 41:26Speaker 8

So if you said the land owner is switching out to put a data center here, and you told the land owner that's not a good thing for example. That's correct? Okay. That's not what I hear when you say that. Let's just hear the question directly.

41:26 – 41:38Speaker 13

I have a comment. I am the one that made that comment. I don't think that's not becoming an option. I will let you know. I haven't even talked to the Secretary of State about bringing the Big Bang and Baxter again.

41:38Speaker 9

I heard you say that as well.

41:39 – 41:54Speaker 13

No, but it was not going to happen. I don't want to get in here and do that. Also, it's just a joke. There's a lot of water. Right. There's three other options. Right.

41:55Speaker 8

Right. Right.

42:20Speaker 13

There was, there was 400 jobs. That's been like, you know, something like that.

42:28Speaker 2

But that happens.

42:29Speaker 8

You make it sound almost like, hey, if we don't do this, we can't continue to publish other talents.

42:36Speaker 13

But we end up to have something substantial that we just never pick it up.

42:42Speaker 1

Because it's a big deal. I don't know. I think it's a different problem. I think it's a different problem.

43:27 – 44:24Speaker 13

He was pregnant. The majority of the people are close to the data center or whatever. Why do you have that exhibition? I just want to make a point. I don't want to downplay capital where capital is. People, please keep in mind, because of the proposed ordinance, they can go ahead and change. Just throw that out there. They can change anything.

44:49Speaker 1

I was just asking, every time we meet,

45:01 – 48:22Speaker 13

ordinance that you have in those areas, none of them are private. How best can we protect the Miami County residents if you have an ordinance? I think that would be another one. We have two neighbors, less than a mile from us, that have already lost property due to eminent drainage. not because of the absence but because of the limited access necessarily um we know uh how it eminently affects people's property rights okay um i just hope it doesn't come down to that but if you make it then in western lebanon look at that You can do it on a vehicle. From 200 west, 200 west of the center of Lebanon, on the Indian 32, on the north side, it started from 200 west and goes over 6,000 miles. The production of bare dirt, burnt food, bulldozers, backhoes, all the heavy equipment you can imagine out there. Concrete plants. They took them out of the station and left the private sector. They laid them on a stage in Turkey's small landfills. start doing that. Well, Percus, Percus Howard in the domain, now I think they offer a very large amount of this . And I know some of the farmers moved from there to . I've talked to farmers in my family . Because those guys didn't get $50,000 a acre to get up there and say, So right now, we're just here to talk about it. And sir, I've heard you mention at least twice, maybe three times, about amending unworthiness. People have amended something that doesn't exist. It's important to get a job. You need to make amendments. Well, sir, because it's not a solid one. do that if you go down to 1111 you look at that property 65 there's no way that farmers and residents and business owners came up on that plane okay without some allergens from the state instead of the state did i was able to hear no any different isn't that awful i think you can serve us money and purchase that

48:25Speaker 13

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

49:14Speaker 10

Fred, you have reached out to me after I've emailed all of the commissioners.

49:19 – 49:49Speaker 1

You were the only one who reached out to me. Thank you very much. And you had talked about this evening as well about the 55 school leaders, that the noise is the first to go on. And I appreciate that you were talking about that. However, that is just one little piece, a hearing piece, because I was thinking that We're running higher than that, 24-7.

49:49Speaker 10

So my question is, who's going to monitor that?

49:52Speaker 1

Because I don't know that we can do here. So what's the process?

50:02 – 50:21Speaker 10

What's their procedure? Who's going to test it? Is there going to be another person on the day? Who's going to do that? Who is responsible to call if it goes over that? He's done much of that with the same paper to protect it, doesn't he? We don't know. It's not stated in the order.

50:23Speaker 13

Is that correct?

50:25 – 51:11Speaker 10

Exactly. So we don't know. So that means he's not fighting it as a human being or taking it as a vitamin. And Molly says, has it now? So that will be one thing. And I've talked to the NAACP. I've talked to the American Disability Act. I've talked to the Veterans Administration people. So who's protecting our people with autism? Who's protecting our veterans? Who's protecting our people with behavior issues? Because, as we know,

51:17Speaker 1

So I am worried about that.

51:21 – 51:53Speaker 10

The other thing that I'm worried about is, again, because it's been stated to me personally, public buildings that would have too much fun rather than having none. And so this is a, okay, well, we have too much .

52:20Speaker 13

Get close. All right. Who's got it?

52:54 – 53:59Speaker 4

for the love of accounting. According to the ordinance, section 310, it talks about the fire department training, but there's no mention of upgrading equipment, the taxpayers or the operator of the data centers. to use our current infrastructure? Will our buildings fold heavier engines? Will our buildings fold bigger engines? Then section 4.8 talks about verification of water rights. So who will be responsible for the owners to get baseline testing done on their wells and water quality? Is that going to fall on the homeowners or will that fall on the county or the operator? So who's protecting the water rights of people here in the county?

54:01Speaker 13

With 84% even private.

54:30 – 57:08Speaker 3

Okay, some items on the 15,000 bonus. That company has used them before. They don't have to be used to death or anything. And pollution factors, where they have from this, is about 50%. Also, we've heard about the property values. Well, in Texas, where they have them, property values are going down. Miami County Lawyers, Miami. If I'm going to have a technology, I want to be a technology advisor. A few months ago, as they were introducing and they were going for the auditorium, the lawyers from outside were talking to me, going home and talking to me, and said that these lawyers would give me $60,000 to $80,000 a year to work there. to these four to eight people without a law. The only one of these in here at Franksburg on a $40 work fee, probably makes $87,000, and they're a federally licensed. I don't think they want to pay a benefit to these multiple $80,000 people. And also, then, the lawyer representing the company, Doug Smith, that they were looking at land west of 21, the old lab and track yard. That falls under PPA, the Environmental Health Act. It has to be lead-conditioned land. And it costs about only $75,000 per square feet. My farm is $4,500. That data center, my farm is sitting inside of that data for 19 and a half years. And, uh, there's a lot of EPA regulations being on, on for the engineers. If they're any less valid, they have to go a little bit in there with people before they can get an MP.

57:08 – 59:15Speaker 13

He thinks it's both the opposite, but it has to be federal requirements too. Okay, thank you. but one thing that kind of concerned me is the statement that she said there was no ordinance for this forever well who created that ordinance not officials not for working on painting so that ordinance committee that they thought that you know people have lived there have they you know looked into the data center have they done any back research that does a lot of research to restart the white piece of paper but nobody thought that anybody was living there they just That's the thing I don't understand is you're going by other counties, other people that have created an ordinance, but you didn't put work to actually I'm glad to be able to live in this land and be able to do it now. You're doing it right now. I'm doing it right now. It's related to the bank commission. It's key. For how many months do we have on the land?

59:15Speaker 1

They're not there since now.

59:19Speaker 13

They're not in place yet. Thank you.

59:45 – 59:59Speaker 5

Hey, so just for a little bit of a little bit here, our committee that wrote this is a plan commission. Plan commission are all member citizens of Miami County. So there are citizens that wrote this entire thing.

59:59Speaker 13

But why do you think this is?

1:00:01Speaker 5

So that they are citizens, beyond the commission, serve here in Miami County, they have to be citizens of Miami County. They are citizens.

1:00:18Speaker 8

Sorry, we had one person . Are we ?

1:00:22Speaker 9

No, I'm sorry.

1:00:25Speaker 8

I was gonna say it's 11 all of a sudden, but I'm gonna be having to step.

1:00:44Speaker 13

Okay, there are two groups.

1:00:56Speaker 2

Next up is Stacey Hengel.

1:01:00 – 1:01:22Speaker 10

Hello, I'm Stacey Hengel, and I'm a student here at the University of Florida. I'm one of the people who wanted to go to the United States so much.

1:01:22 – 1:03:16Speaker 9

And today, this is a new proposal. My trust to you is to take your time with it. It is extremely important that you just love me on. I know a lot about the data center, mostly because I do keep to your plan. Is there a place for me? Yes. Is this a place? No. What a lot of people don't understand is the data center So they are targeting smaller communities that they see are not smart enough or have the money, because we're being honest. I get that, and I don't judge anybody for making the same kind of money. you're going to be done to protect all of us from the few. There's only a few people that will be able to learn these. But the bigger Facebook companies are protected by this one right here. And the water You don't like to take four something gallons of gas? Wait until you're taking 15 gallons of water in your life. I literally got a phone call today from somebody in Fresno, Ohio. He lives 20 to 30 minutes away from the data center.

1:03:17Speaker 11

He's having to put in a new lab.

1:03:20 – 1:03:31Speaker 8

They offered him, the people that put in the data center, It's going to be more than that for himself. I'd have to bear with him.

1:03:32Speaker 11

They offered him $12.

1:03:33 – 1:04:39Speaker 9

That's worth it. We all knew that's not going to cover a well-meaning man. But you have to go deeper, because you're going to need it. So I'm just waiting for it. My experience is not the way. It is not. So, can I just march through that? Do you feel today that the ordinance is so strong to protect us and our children and grandchildren, and God willing, great-grandchildren, that they would be part of it? Because you can always go back, but if you don't put something in plan right now, Even if it sounds absolutely absurd and . You can always Google that and change it if you find in the future that, OK, these aren't as harmful as everybody was saying.

1:04:39Speaker 8

I don't think that's the case.

1:04:42 – 1:04:53Speaker 9

But thank you for your time.

1:05:10 – 1:05:33Speaker 9

I have seen several mentions that an outright man is not equal option. and our only existing hope is regulation to these risks.

1:05:33Speaker 8

I very much disagree. Our duty as elected officials and local government is to represent our local community's best interests, not to make that involvement.

1:05:43 – 1:06:05Speaker 7

I have plenty of experience in being the only person who's voted against the sign-off and being told that the argument must be passed. Those who know who made it are lonely, but they have never thought of being lost asleep. The reality is if our local government stands together to represent our community, Against the recommendation, it's just probably back to the big guys and not a problem.

1:06:06Speaker 8

Okay. Thank you.

1:06:37 – 1:07:38Speaker 12

Section 3 of the system. Current language. All equipment and buildings associated with the facility shall be set at a cost of $500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 At least 2,000 people . At least 2,000 people . At least 2,000 people documented . The applicant shall establish a property value guarantee

1:07:57Speaker 1

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1:08:25 – 1:08:47Speaker 12

Noiseland, third language, maximum sound level of Chardonnay, 96.5 decibels, measured at the top of the mountain. To post-revision, maximum sound level of Chardonnay exceeds 45 decibels, 38 high-rises, 40 decibels, 39 high-rises. Measured at the U.S. presidential dwelling at the top of the mountain.

1:09:00 – 1:09:48Speaker 6

I will not walk the camera and that is not a. And I feel like we said something that bothered me a little bit and I'm going to start by making a statement. that I said online and to you both, I don't think you're taking any big bets. I do not think there's any money under the table. And I know that that's been something that will be frustrating. But I want to say for the record, I and many other people do not think money in the state unions. That's not to say it's not having any interest.

1:09:50Speaker 1

So earlier tonight, you said that there were resuming meetings, commissioner meetings, so everyone would be here in public.

1:09:56 – 1:10:17Speaker 6

But we had a public meeting before the planning commission. And this public meeting allowed the public to speak about the strictly regulated ,, strictly regulated ,, light at night. Public comment was closed. The meeting was open. And a vote was taken without any discussion and anything that hundreds of people showed up to say.

1:10:17Speaker 8

So being the opportunity to speak is not .

1:10:21 – 1:11:33Speaker 6

And that might refer to this as what you guys were saying and what you might have seen. I'd like to see a follow-up on this, too. I don't actually like to say, I don't think it's untrue that there are no projects. I was at the commissioner meeting when the attorney, for one of the projects that's in there, gave an input onto a ordinance. So you can't say there's no projects. That's not the same as not having a project in front of you is not the same as saying there's no projects in the works in Laney. The attorney and the students I think that a lot of businesses would not want to come in alongside the study home if they need a center. We're not being pro business. And I actually sat through a super boring and very expensive study that the county paid for, the Wyoming County Economic Development Plan, and it said what we're looking for in our county is industrial jobs, medical jobs, agricultural jobs, and this doesn't fit in many of the categories, but we said, we're pursuing for Wyoming County. We might have to do it.

1:11:35Speaker 1

And it looks like $10,000 in a study. Why are we following it?

1:11:42 – 1:12:36Speaker 6

If that was all the best engineers, if that was all the best people on record, if it was all the best that the United States has to offer, why aren't those the industries that we're talking about? I'm not against data centers, but I'm concerned about a data center right now. I probably wouldn't have to. And in the process, I would apologize if I didn't come forward. I haven't given you our confidence in the process.

1:12:37 – 1:12:48Speaker 13

I know that. And we are not talking to the data center. We're trying to be prepared so that they come talk to us and say, here's our guidelines.

1:12:49Speaker 6

Do the data center get to continue to have the input of the government?

1:12:55 – 1:13:12Speaker 1

Where? I think you guys can tell me. And that's all correct, it's on video.

1:13:12 – 1:13:27Speaker 6

So I don't think we have our first version as written, and all the planes that we're adding to the count system. That's all. Figure it needs to be on the log.

1:14:16Speaker 13

I won't take up too much time.

1:14:21 – 1:14:32Speaker 5

I did hear about the wastewater treatment regulation. What is the total set of solids allowed, and what does the NH3 play?

1:14:33Speaker 13

Well, in regards to that ideal issue in .

1:14:39Speaker 5

So you guys were able to regulate that, correct?

1:14:50Speaker 13

Yes, yes. Can you please walk around the slaughterhouse?

1:14:56Speaker 8

I have a question about previous land transfers between Meketa and Mississippi data centers.

1:15:04Speaker 5

From public records, it looks like the land was purchased by Meketa for a specific amount, and it's still passed for a specific amount.

1:15:11 – 1:16:26Speaker 13

Does Meketa not have to make it to all the land transfers? Yeah. A lot of the other stuff has been answered. That's all I've got. On that particular data center, it would be one really good argument for us to report this. They have the rules. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want to see the original data. just do another therapy let it be a bit tighter is This is a great system

1:16:55 – 1:17:20Speaker 9

Do you want to call for Jason Weinberg?

1:17:22Speaker 1

Jason? Jason, do you want to?

1:17:44Speaker 13

We need a designer.

1:18:30 – 1:19:31Speaker 5

Thank you very much. I would like to bring up a few points. But that's not the problem. Arlen, and a lot of them, with all this and that, used small, mobile, or as the owner of the record. And then if there's some huge problem, the local ,, it was bankrupt. It's called ,, as you said. And then the large company, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, they walk away sad, greedy, and you don't get to walk away to be that place's water. And I know this is about my family trying to kind of bring in residents.

1:19:32Speaker 4

But you know how hard it is to bring in residents and borrow people's food?

1:19:36 – 1:20:27Speaker 5

So if you were to have this ordinance, you need to make changes. You need to make changes such that the large company that's actually doing the business Now, if they say, in fact, oh, we can't afford to do that, well, you can't afford to do that, then you can't afford to run that center. If you can't afford to clean up your mess, then you can't afford to make your mess, OK? Why can't you afford to clean up your mess? And when you divide this, well, the recommendations for you to divide this. And right now, the order of the people The word that says, okay, it's $100 a day. That's something that's like $1,000 a day. You think they can't pay the price of $1,000 to be able to pay? I mean, you know, make it $100,000.

1:20:27Speaker 1

That's not like a lot going on. You're not going to break it. That's why we're here.

1:20:31 – 1:20:53Speaker 5

How do you want to be able to pay? And it sounds like that's too much. Well, you're not going to break it. You don't need it. I said, you can't afford to fix it. Look, I mean, if it's low sleep, what else does it spine? That's not the one you're worried about. Thank you very much.

1:21:24Speaker 1

And I see where the people group was standing. When we all stood together, we made sure that we were .

1:21:35Speaker 5

It was we, the people, against the minority of people getting lost. We'd get lost. About five years back, when we stood up and the people decided that we wanted the prisoners down,

1:21:53Speaker 13

except maybe about 50 or 100 people on Barker Hill. We, the people, stood up.

1:21:58 – 1:22:24Speaker 5

And we, the people of Miami County, will vote. And I'm not saying I can't. I don't know who the staff is. I'm not the commissioner who voted for this proposal. But the thing is, we, the people of Miami County, will vote you out. We can stand up for the woods of Miami County, but the region of Georgia, not either of these. And this young man over here is a young man. I am so proud of this young man.

1:22:24Speaker 1

This is the youngest boy from Langley County. 13 years old. And I am just so proud of you.

1:22:30Speaker 13

And this is the boys from Langley County. We need the new boys. We need the first boys from here. Do you know what I mean?

1:22:37Speaker 12

First I mean, you will not affect the college students. You will not affect.

1:23:27 – 1:24:25Speaker 1

Please. Please state your name for the record. All the different reasons why they'll want it to be at the center, right? There's a set of noise pollution and the water consumption. There's water shortages, the wells run dry. There's also the contaminants in the water. For the people in Oregon, I don't know if you've heard about them, but the contaminants are associated

1:24:26Speaker 6

able to filter that out.

1:24:28 – 1:25:54Speaker 1

And people got working damage, they got rare cancers, and they have a lot of health issues. And I don't know if you've had, you know, kids or grandkids, you know, if you're thinking about them, you know, the sports kind of has had some, you know, so far that they haven't been having it here. And if you think about the years of this impact that this has had on their health, and even on our own house, in your own house. If you think about these areas, the animals leave. People, the animals are getting sick, and it's not safe for the animals, it's not safe for us, and it's not safe for your kids. And there's so many other opportunities that we can have. The data centers, they don't provide jobs for us. They provide very few, and there's a lot of And we want our kids to be able to stay here. A lot of us would love my kids to come. A lot of us, we have been here for generations. And we want to be able to stay here. You know, there's people that are trying to move away from the private centers. And they can't even sell their houses because nobody wants to live by them. And so we ask you to please protect our families, for our kids, and for our grandkids. And I hope I was able to have a healthy family.

1:25:54Speaker 9

Thank you for having me.

1:26:58Speaker 13

Thank you very much.

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