Data center ordinance (public hearing)

Told the Council the ordinance approach is wrong — decommissioning and compliance belong in bonds and certificates of occupancy, not ordinances — and suggested alternatives like waterless data center designs.

As an engineer, she warned about chemical contamination from closed-loop cooling systems, water use and discharge, and urged sending the ordinance back to Planning and Zoning for more work.

Called the noise rules real improvements but asked three things: confirm the rules reach Luckett Road, make financial assurance reviews mandatory and annual, and seek a decommissioning development agreement plus a construction-stall trigger for Luckett Road.

Asked whether light pollution and heat from data centers are addressed, citing a story of a child whose nighttime window view was lit by a data center.