John Parker

Member since August 15, 2023

I’m fourth generation STL city. I got a degree in environmental policy. I’m a civics dork. I love my city!

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John Parker1 month ago The tax revenue generated from this project will generate $25M ANNUALLY for public schools and $15M ANNUALLY for city infrastructure. The money is badly needed. It’s going into a long vacated warehouse that has never generated tax revenue. It’s in between a railroad yard and the highway. It has more regulation around it than any other data center in the country. THIS data center is being done right.

John Parker8 months ago St. Louis is a city primed for urban orchards. In our city we could have apples, peaches, pears and other fruit trees growing. Our kids don't always have access to fresh fruits and vegetables. The boomer generation knew to grow fruit trees, but after them came gen X who had other distractions, and Y who is so far away from this type of thinking it is silly. Gen Z might think it fun, interesting and retro to get involved in urban orchards. Perhaps the Y gen will pick up on it. Gen X is older and wiser now and probably would take to it.The city has a lot of vacant land that they could use for urban orchards. (If people like Paul McKee are reigned in from wasting our land and buildings). If there is an orchard of apple trees, it could be seen as a public asset. In Jamaica they do this with mangos. Anyone can come pick mangos for their own consumption. It doesn't have to be perfect. If our kids are eating more fruits and vegetables, it's a win. If people who have little to nothing at least get some fresh fruit that they can pick themselves any time they want, it would help with public health. There are a lot of positives, and very few, if any, negatives.

John Parker8 months ago Data Centers have been done very poorly, as in Memphis. They have also been done very well, as was done by Apple. We don't know exactly what this data center at The Armory will emulate. Apple, or Memphis? But it's up to us to make sure that it is done correctly.If you don't understand the chemistry, please learn it before you comment. If you don't understand water management and energy management, please study up on it before you declare something to be fact. Learn everything that you can about the issue before you judge this project.The Armory will not be used for anything else if it is not turned into a data center. Michael Browning wants people to walk to The Armory to go shopping, but they tried that, and it didn't work. It's a terribly prospect for any business because it was built as an Armory. But it can be used as a data center. If we do it right, (big if) then it would be a huge plus for our city. It would give us real estate taxes that would go directly to our schools. There are pluses to it, undeniably. The question that people have is, what are the negatives? And that hasn't been determined yet because we don't have the plans.Please stop talking about this as if you know what is going to happen. You don't. You don't have the data for the data center. Until we have that, everything that people say is complete BS and is nothing but reactionary conjecture. Once the company building it submits an Environmental Impact Statement, then we can talk about it.