NO DATA CENTERS IN STL

No to Data Centers… especially without requiring controlled recycled systems that only recycle their own water. This needs to be non negotiable and required to be in place to protect our water from being depleted and impacted. Billionaires Pay their own bills for energy and Taxes without residents having to foot the bill. In fact they should require an additional tax to combat. Yearly public disclosures of usage of energy and efficiency and fined if over normal usage. In General without these: It Will Raise Your Electric Bills • The "$50 Monthly Tax": New Missouri laws (SB4) allow utility companies to charge you for the cost of building new power plants and lines before they are even finished. Average cost is $600/year per household to power computers for private Billionaires. To clarify, this is residents paying for it to be built…over the next 10 years. More will be required once built. It’s a "Water Guzzler" In one year a medium size data center uses 30 million gallons a year. The same amount of water as: Million Loads of Laundry in one year That is enough water to wash one million loads of laundry. If you took one bath every single day, it would take you 1,500 YEARS to use as much water as this one building uses in just one year. • 273 St. Louis families use in their homes combined. Toxic Air • Diesel Smoke: When the power grid gets too busy, these centers turn on massive backup engines (generators). • Like Idling Trucks: These engines release "diesel soot"—the same black smoke you see from old semi-trucks. Breathing this in causes lung and heart problems for people living nearby. No Real Jobs • a 100,000-square-foot center only needs about 10 to 30 permanent workers to run it. A Regional Crisis • St. Louis is Not Alone: From Chicago to Memphis, data centers are popping up all along the Mississippi River. • The Cumulative Hit: While one center might seem small, dozens of them together threaten the water levels of the Mississippi, which we rely on for our drinking water and for shipping goods. In a drought it could drop the Mississippi water levels down to 25% of the water currently available. The Bottom Line: We are being asked to pay higher bills, breathe dirtier air, and give up millions of gallons of water for a project that provides almost zero local jobs all so billionaires can become trillionaires and not even foot their own bill. Players in these data centers in the Region along the Mississippi from Chicago to Louisiana Elon Musk worth 840 billion- more that the budget for small countries Mark Zuckerburg- Meta ( Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram) worth 1.3 Trillion Jeff Bezos Amazon 2 Trillion Black stone group worth 1 trillion - can by 5 million homes in St. Louis Apollo Global worth 650 Billion- 13x the total wealth in St. Louis Contour Real Estate- specifically behind the Armory proposal is worth 5 billion - equivalent to 50 high end sports stadiums. They can afford to pay for their own builds, energy, and for the necessary equipment to recycle their water. We shouldnt be paying for any of that.