Zoning, annexation, abatements and the conditions attached to them are part of what makes a site buildable, which makes them our work as well as yours. You should have the real numbers before a hearing, from the party assembling the project rather than from a consultant hired after the fact.
Data centers arrive in your jurisdiction as a rezoning request with a large number attached and a developer who wants a decision this quarter. The questions your residents will ask are the same everywhere: what it does to their electricity bill, how much water it takes, what it sounds like, how many jobs it actually creates once construction ends, and what happens if the tenant leaves.
Those answers exist. They are often not in the application, and the party presenting is frequently not the party who will own the site in three years.
The megawatts, the ramp, and how the interconnection is funded. Where a project requires network upgrades, who carries that cost is a matter of record and we will put it in front of you.
Cooling design and its water draw, construction traffic against operating traffic, and measured noise at the property line. These are the three that decide most hearings and the three most often left vague.
What the site pays today, what it would pay under the abatement being requested, and what it pays when the abatement ends. Compared against what similar projects in the registry actually agreed to.
Construction employment and permanent operating employment are different numbers by an order of magnitude. Both belong in the record, and conflating them is how these projects lose community trust later.
If a project in your jurisdiction is being described in numbers you cannot check, tell us which ones. A first read comes back within two business days.
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