An Ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners Establishing a Temporary Moratorium on the Submission and Acceptance of Applications for Building Permits, Site Plans, Development Orders, Development Agreements, Special Exception Uses, Conditional Uses, Rezonings, and Comprehensive Plan Amendments Related to Data Centers, Large-Scale Data Centers and Other Large Load Customers Within Unincorporated Pasco County; Providing for Authority; Legislative Findings of Fact; Temporary Moratorium Imposed; Duration of Temporary Moratorium; Severability; and an Effective Date.
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
DispositionAdopted
Approved to adopt by a roll call vote.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Jul 14, 2026
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Jul 14, 2026
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
This case, across meetings
PDE-26-0777 in full →PDE-26-0777 was taken up 2 times between Jun 11, 2026 and Jul 14, 2026 — this is appearance 2.
- Jun 11, 2026PlanningP13No disposition in the minutes
- Jul 14, 2026BoardP84▶Adoptedthis item
What was said
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A lot of signups for data centers. Uh we are gonna pull that item up. This is gonna be the second hearing, but just for the all the sake of all the people that are here, rather than have you wait to the end, uh we're moving that up forward.
So staff can present.
Eighty four?
T eighty four.
Do you want to know?
So P eighty four was advertised at the Tampa Bay Times May twenty-seventh, twenty twenty six.
All right. Amy Tull, Planning, Development, and Economic Growth. While we get the presentation loaded, uh, this is a county-initiated ordinance to protect the county from any intrusion of uh the moratorium for development orders and building permit site plans for the relationship to data centers. And while we're pulling up the presentation, I'll go ahead and read the ordinance into record. It is so item P eighty-four is PDE 26-0777. It's
an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners establishing a temporary moratorium on the submission and acceptance of applications for building permits. Site plans, development orders, development agreements, special exception uses, conditional uses, rezoning, and comprehensive plan amendments related to data centers, large-scale data centers, and other large load customers within unincorporated Pasco County. Providing for authority, legislative findings of fact, temporary
moratorium imposed, duration of temporary Moratorium, severability, and an effective date. And I have Amandela here to do the presentation.
Good afternoon, Commissioner. Amanda Hill, Planning Development, Economic Growth.
So I'd just like to state for the record that additional public comments were received for this item and have been submitted to the clerk's office for the file of record.
So at the last public hearing for this item, we discussed briefly the data center moratorium activity that was happening across the state. And I just wanted to give you a brief update on that. So this updated map illustrates the twenty-five counties and two cities that are currently considering in the process of enacting or already enacted a moratorium regarding this matter.
As a reminder regarding the applicability of the moratorium. The draft ordinance previously proposed to establish a twelve-month moratorium, during which the county would not accept any applications for data centers and other large load customers. The moratorium would not apply to server rooms or other computer rooms that typically house IT and network equipment and accessory. or incidental data centers that are on site for the principal use.
Now if the board determines a public necessity An existing development agreement or a new one can be adopted for a non-large load data center. provided that the conditions imposed address at minimum the items listed on the screen. At the first public hearing for this item, the board directed staff to include e-waste as a category for the conditions to be addressed if such an agreement is amended or adopted.
On June 16, 2026, the board applied the pending ordinance doctrine to this ordinance. The public hearing for the proposed ordinance was first advertised in the Tampa Bay Times on May twenty-seventh, twenty twenty six. As such, upon adoption and filing with the state, The moratorium will be retroactively applicable from May 27, 2026, and a new WERES clause has been included in the ordinance to reflect this decision by the board.
PDE further contemplated the board and LPA discussions regarding the exemption of data centers that serve as an incidental use for this ordinance. And based on additional research, a proposed cap of 2.5 megawatts is established for the maximum power demand for an incidental use. This will help to ensure that the exemption is not abused or utilized in a way to circumvent an moratorium. Additional revisions were included to align the language used in Section
3 applicability with the established terms that are currently defined within the Land Development Code.
Additionally, Section 5, duration of temporary moratorium, was revised to further clarify the Board's ability to extend the moratorium based on a legislative determination if so desired.
And this item comes to you with a recommendation for approval and I'm here for any questions that you may have.
Okay. So this is a board initiated uh item that started back in May 27th. We had to have two public hearing after we advertised it and had it brought before the board. After doing that, uh we did have Free public hearing? Okay, what was it? Okay. So two Board of County Commissioners and a Planning Commission. Um the first one we did make some additions. Instead of being at, I think, ten megawatts, we went down to uh two point five. That's a big drop. E-Waste was a conversation piece that came up. We did add that in
there. Other than that, it's fully intact to what we had looked at, proposed, and I think you guys did a great job in speed getting it forward, and then in in the complexity, I think what you've isolated is This moratorium is rock solid for us that we don't have to worry about any data centers for a year. Um at the last meeting there was conversation, and I think you're gonna find everybody supports what we're doing here from the board. Um so I've got a lot of public comment. The reason I I move this item up forward is because we've got a lot of business. We have two major items
we didn't even get to this morning because of Of time resolutions and and our lobbyists can really talk. Uh so that slowed us down. So we got a lot of items to go through. So I brought this forward, and again, it's important to us that we get this right, and I think we've got it right, and I think you're gonna find full support. Um and to make it easy for the board, I'm gonna just ask the board: do any board members have any uh questions or for the staff?
Mm-hmm. Everybody's good? Okay. So for the public to speak, that pretty much tells you this is going to get approved. Not a big forecaster, but it looks pretty good from what I can see. If you support what we're doing, you really want to speak. If you want to just say like the state does, I wave in support, you'll save time. Otherwise, you'll have you three minutes to talk. But we really want to get through our rest of our business, but I do want to take care of this to let you know important. is we have moving it right up. So if you really need to speak, so be it. If you can pass on that,
you'll let us get the rest of the work done, which is quite a bit today. So. Is there anyone who would like to speak that has signed up?
All right.
Okay.
Do you want me to call the names and then give them the opportunity? Okay. Well maybe not everyone will come up. Why just take the ones that raise the means?
Well they can they can wave in support if they're if they're When I call their name. When they call their name if that's what they wish to do. Otherwise they can speak to you.
Okay. So the first one I believe is for P eighty four. It doesn't say Cindy Scarta.
Yeah, I don't know.
Thank you for uh letting me speak today. I appreciate your time and your consideration. We all know how important this is. Ms.
Scarta, can you give your name and address for the record? I apologize.
My name is Cindy Scarta. I'm at [address removed]. I'm here on behalf of myself as a concerned citizen.
Okay, go ahead, thank you.
So I appreciate you taking the time to listen to all your constituents about this big item. It's very important. Florida's very unique in its aquifer and it's very permeable because of its limestone base. So it's different than any other state in the country. I think we have enough data centers as people have talked about, and I appreciate your moratorium consideration. But I also s think that maybe we need a permanent ban. There are two other counties in the state that have moved to make a permanent ban on these data
centers, uh the large scale. So I appreciate your amendments and what your recommendations are from your staff. And uh just want to take the time. There was a big headline here recently. Rep Had Harriet Hagman from Wyoming demands answers after Mark Zuckerberg's 800 million meta data center caught contaminating Wyoming's wastewater. Um it forced the city to shut down its reclaimed wastewater system for months, and it was because of uh bacterial contamination. In
the facility's closed loop cooling system, a technology that is marketed as being a solution to high data center water consumption rates. So there is a big risk of contamination to our groundwater, and I just wanted to bring that to your attention. Thank you very much for time.
And those who want to bring in other information, we're gonna look at this for a whole year. Through this whole year, if you have data or stories that come up that you want to share with us, staff will take a look at it. That'll be part of the record. We're gonna look at all of it. So if you would wanna just make that to submit it to us. We can submit that to you at any time.
Well thank you. I have other stuff too.
Okay. Send the send it all to us. We'll take it and we'll put it in the record. We'll take a look at it. And we're gonna bring it back again as we go further with this. So again, all the information you got. If you just want to submit it, we can submit it and look at it.
I appreciate that.
Thank
you very much. Mr. Chairman
Mariano.
I just wanted the county attorney to Talk about the process about permanent vans. Yeah.
So, Mr. Chairman, I'll be happy to. The the purpose of a moratorium is to do an analysis to see what restrictions would be necessary to permit a data center. Or if There are no Uh if there there are no if it can't be adequately protected through your regulations To allow Then you may be able to consider a A that that is not an appropriate use to
be housed in in Pasco County. But without doing that initial analysis during a moratorium That's I mean that's why a moratorium is done is to is to allow the county the atti the time to do the evaluation. and to implement regulations, whatever they may be, Um during that one year period, um that's that is the legal use of a moratorium. Okay.
Again, thank you for letting me speak.
All right, thank you.
Okay. the next individual is Jeff Roberts.
Thank you for giving me a few moments. My name is Jeff Roberts. I'm [address removed]. Uh I'm coming here as a retired United States Central Command Portfolio Manager. So I have some experience in this. I started back working with NASA and everything on the other coast. I started working back with NASA and everything on the other coast. I'm going to shorten mine up to already say that we come. currently have a hundred data centers currently operational in the state of Florida. These are of different sizes and scope and scale.
There are 12,000 active data centers in the world, and this already serves 95% of the users with no issues. What I would say with based on the ordinance Um again it's my humble opinion that right now what we're experiencing is when you get the the Revco, Rexall, Kmart, all of those different corporations and companies fighting to see who's the best. There are over 1,000 large language models out there right now. Some of them are big, generic, like Chad
GPT and GROP, some of them are little and specific, like something that Moffat would use. Mm-hmm. They're all in a fight to see who's gonna get the ground. That's what we're experiencing here. And personally I don't think that fight's gonna be over for the next year. It's going to be three to five. So until they do that that fight of who's gonna win that capitalist thing. you need to hold off. And with that then it would be my humble opinion that due the size scope and scale of our current population We will need some kind of a data center, whether it be Polk County,
Pasco or whatever, to both do Orlando and the Tampa region. I don't know where that's going to fall geophysically, but there will need to be one on this side for hyperscaling. And when I say the hyperscaling, people use it to buy space. Think about the average person doesn't need to buy a crane. The average person rents a crane. So that's what's going to be happening at these hyperscaled spaces. So you don't need to have one for every last little thing that's gonna be doing on it. They buy time and space on there. Um
One thing that I'm unclear about the exact details of the um the cutout for the IT is we do need to make sure that with those um provisions that the major developments that are going on in our area have the ability to put in um the houses that aren't really a house, the T1, what used to be a T1 node, the fiber optic nodes and other things like that in those areas. And those don't take up any more power than a normal house would, about an eighteen hundred square foot house.
So Allowing for that to go in there to hyperscale the transmission of the data. is gonna be critical. For the build outs. So That's it. I think.
Do you have that written down?
I have all of this. I I put it in, I submitted it to the other thing with a lot more, but I'm cutting it out because it's it's unnecessary. But that kind of data is out there. And if you if anybody has any other questions on the thing that it's the dealing with the terminology that we need to talk about versus dealing with the fear and the factors. Like I've been in a few different data centers. I'm sorry I'm over my time. None of them have used water for it. The water that's been in there has been in
toilets and sewers and white like for the people. It's an ineffective cooling thing. You're gonna use air conditioning type of systems, you're gonna use ethylene, glycol, and some combination of those kind of things for closed loop cooling systems. when you're talking about massive scale. Now I would also say that we need to focus on making these places use solar on the backup. So thank you.
All right, the next individual signed up is Christy Zimmer.
Hello, Christy Zimmer, [address removed]. Thank you so much for all the work you guys have done to get it this far. Very much appreciated. I do have a concern if this covers the young man that was at the different meetings pumping his data center that he was going to be building without having to rezone it out at I-75 and 52. He's not considered a mega or large, and he was talking about 19.9 megawatts, which is under
this allowable 2.5, and he was also talking about 350 million gallons of water, and then this possible recooling system, which will involve all the chemicals involved. Is this preventing him from being able to move forward and build his data center? And And is there a way when you're in your planning that we can uh limit the type of users of these data centers because what they're doing is they're building a base then they have these buyers who
come in and buy their space for the data processing. If we can eliminate any and all ELPRs from being able to utilize those data centers, that would be a good thing to do when you're in that process of trying to create some guidelines. Please let me know if that eliminates him or not.
I believe it does.
David Engel, Planning and Economic Development Director. It does sir. The proposal over at Double Branch is inside of this moratorium and cannot proceed.
Okay. Thank you.
All right.
Please, please, please, don't clap. Thank you.
The next individual signed up is David Hammond.
And who's after David?
And then Michael Petoric after that.
Good afternoon. My name is Dave Hammond. Address is [address removed]. I'd just like to start saying, as a Pasco County resident, I'm very interested in hearing that this moratorium is more than likely going to pass today. I did watch the June 16th meeting and I was very concerned. Um with the apparent lack of basic understanding of what a data center is,
especially the ones that we're talking about here, and how we might need to define our terms on blocking them or creating the moratorium for them. But I'm relieved to understand that you've um You apparently have done that homework and you seem to know, although I think the general public still does not. And uh the term I think we all need to become familiar with, as was just mentioned, is hyperscale. And those are certainly the data centers that we would all be concerned with. As
was previously mentioned through from my own little investigation, I found that there are more or less 120, that's the number that I heard, data centers in operation in Florida already. Twenty-four of them in Hillsborough County alone. That's you know twenty percent of all of the data centers in the in the state. And there isn't that big concern about those simply because they're primarily what are called enterprise, co-location, telecom edge. They
are small facilities. One of them is sitting in downtown Tampa. And uh they they are taking care of our day-to-day business. When you pick up your phone, when you log on to your computer, when you post out on Facebook, these are all primarily. Being done by these smaller ones. The hyperscale ones, however, are the ones that are going to be, they're going to need to be built. I just don't believe they necessarily
need to be built here. I'm not sure if I understood what a previous statement. about where they might be located, Orlando, you know, somewhere around Tampa, maybe in the Miami area, Jacksonville, who knows. But I don't think they need to be here and um appreciate uh your taking the time to to agree and put this moratorium in place. Thank
you. Thank you.
Right, Michael Petovic or Petork?
Okay.
And then after that it is unclear. R T E T T L Okay. She knows who she is.
Great. Oh okay. Michael Pultorek. My address is protected and I am candidate for House District 54 by the way.
I'm
sorry?
Not an advertising platform.
Yeah no my apologies. This gentleman from NASA just proved our point, okay? The data centers that we may need can fit into eighteen hundred square feet. These are not hundred and fifty thousand square foot facilities that we need here. They actually create their own security risks because we don't know who's inside of it or which China infiltrated companies and platforms are inside of those data centers. You heard from a young lady that
worked for the government before that Google and Meta in Amazon, they don't need these hyperscale locations. But our tax dollars are being used to incentivize those to still come here right now. If a data center wants to come here, let 'em build a D cell plant so they're not using our aquifer. When they say they can use toilet water, we found out in the Planning Commission meeting with the engineers that they're talking about using reclaimed water. We don't have enough reclaimed water for us as it is. Even reclaimed
water users are on restrictions right now. But there was a question asked in the last meeting that really got me thinking. And it was about, and I didn't pose the question, but they asked if any of you had signed non-disclosure agreements. And it got me thinking, and here's the reason why. I believe in transparency and accountability from the government at all levels. Okay? There was a bill that went through the Senate this session, 484, Senate Bill 484, and it would have banned
non-disclosure agreements between government officials and the data center developers. When it went to the House That language was taken out before it was allowed to pass and go back to the Senate. So they protected non disclosure agreements. At the state level. That's an issue. That is a transparency issue. That is a problem.
We're in the county, sir. I'm sorry? We're in the county, we're not a st we're not the state.
I understand. But I'm
different requirements we have to disclose if we have a conflict.
I understand. But here's what my re request is is at a county level, when we're talking about the forever bill, the for the forever verbiage that you're gonna use. We would ask for the sake of transparency and accountability at a county level for you not to allow any non-disclosure agreements between government and elected officials in these data centers. If it's a homeland security issue, NDAs, not a question,
but that's security.
Sir, we are bound for a non-discl to have to disclose any conflicts of interest. That would be that. So we don't have that.
It's in law.
Awesome. Fantastic. We thank you for this moratorium. It's gonna help out a lot because we wanna see you get it done the right way. So we thank you for that. Okay? We do. We appreciate everything you guys do. Thank you for doing this.
Could I get a motion? Uh Mr. Hammond who has spoken before wants to receive and file his documents that he talked about?
Moved to receive and file. Second.
All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay.
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your
name and address for the record, please.
Rebecca Taft. [address removed]. Um, I spoke at the last meeting and I left there feeling very optimistic that you guys were actually listening to what everybody had to say. So thank you for your attention and conscientiousness about that. So actually what I wrote to today was about w things to consider. doing for the moratorium some regulations and rules to look at, I
copied a man out of uh Kentucky called Peter Lynch and the legislation he wrote for his area. Before I read that, I do want to mention that if we think that we need more data, AI is a whole different animal, which is quite frightening, and you all are probably aware of that. But if we need the science and medicine, they can be built on already impermeable grounds. such as universities or hospitals and serve
that science and medicine need directly without taking our cherished and fragile ecosystem that we have left in Florida. We really don't have that much left. These plan and zoning people are covering up all of our green stuff. So Sorry about that. And one other thing. This this employment center in Brooksville Um that's for rezoning. I looked up the company. And to say, what does this company do? And
it's private. And they are having a rezoning for this farmland for a company who doesn't even tell you Who they are or what they do. It felt AI data center sneaky stuff to me. Alright, there's my rant. So Peter Lynch in Kentucky. um presente legislation that there's a three-year moratorium to look at AI data centers. There are 200 non-operating centers already
in the United States because technology advanced beyond the size of the center. So rather than refurbish it and build it up, they went and built a bigger one somewhere else. So three years is really Uh we may find in five years we don't even need these megastructures, particularly if they get quantum computing combined with AI. Quantum doesn't require data or generate all that heat. Um No NDAs, you already talked about that.
Ban all above five thousand square feet. Restrict max utility connection to a peak of five megawatts. You did two and a half today. Create distinct industrial subclassifications to limit the sound. that comes out of these at three decibels or less at property lines. So it's a limit of how far your your infrastructure sound goes as well as your audible sounds.
Require DX cooling and cell power which has to be generated on site.
Okay. If you'd like to s receive and we can receive and file that if you'd like, and then we'll have it in the record. Would would you like us to receive and file that so we can put it in the record?
Okay.
Second.
All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Thank you.
Not part of the record.
Okay, the next person who has signed up is Margaret Saint James, followed by Chris Shaver.
Uh good afternoon. My name is Margaret St. James. I live at [address removed]. I agree with uh most of what the previous speakers have stated, so there's no sense going over that. Um as I understand it, the motor the moratorium is only um Scheduled to be for one year. Um, and that would give some time to gather, maybe enough time to gather information.
While we don't want to talk politics, we have to admit that this is an election year and that some decisions may be made this year. During an election season, even though not everyone is up for re election, but some are Decisions may be made this year that there is less pressure to make next year, which I think is one reason that some people want an extended moratorium and not just during this election year. And while we're talking
about moratoriums because of impacts on uh the community, uh the count uh commission might want to think about moratoriums on development, which also impacts the communities, especially especially in terms of water and some of these other concerns. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay, Mr. Shapel. Or miss. Uh after it it's Angel Fletcher Kem Kemenzo?
Hi, my name is Chris Shaver. I live at [address removed]. On average, Florida Springs have lost between 30 to 50 percent of their historical flow. Why? We know why. Zephyrhills is pumping out a bunch for their bottling plant of our water. Who's approving this? It's not me. It's you. I'm wondering why that in the
few years that I've lived here, which is of close to twenty, I have seen dramatic change in the smell of the water, in the way the water interacts with anything I add to it. Why? Because people have approved things that are affecting us every day. I went to the Itchinichi Springs to go s tubing with my daughter from Michigan. It was down over six feet. Six. Big. 30 to 60,000
gallons a day are not going back into our aquifer. Why? Because it was voted in. Nobody has any agenda, but we'll build a new house, we'll put in a lagoon, and that's okay. We don't care, right? We don't care that my child And their children are not going to have fresh water. But we will build another housing development and tear down the old housing, change that agricultural land
into a housing development that people come in and buy up and rent at outrageous costs. Our senior citizens are being taken out of the area because. conglomerates are coming down and buying the land and upping their rent so they can take over that long land. They have the long game. Do you have the long game? We need that long game to survive in Florida. You're having everybody move here because we don't have a state tax. We have beautiful land. We
have affordable Which is outpricing all of us who live here now on a fixed income. You are the ones who have to decide if that's worth saving. Yes.
Can you still flap? Let's
Please don't clap.
Name and address for the record. Good afternoon. My name is Angelle Fletcher Camanzulli and my address is [address removed]. And I'll make this very brief. My family has a farm close to the f the corner of 41 and 52 and um we are in Talks about possibly selling it. That being said, I did have a realtor broker recently approach me very aggressively. almost demanding
that I do more than consider selling his outfit, our farm. For the explicit use of an AI data center. Why? Because he said it was perfect location because of Moffitt, because of the airport that's closed us, because of the other infrastructures that are being developed in our immediate area, and that an AI data center would be a pivot point for the uses of those infrastructures. The demand is going to be there. And it would be the right thing for me to do. as a
citizen and a landowner to consider allowing our farm to be used to that point. to which I met his aggressive yes with an extremely emphatic no. So I am very, very happy to hear that we are now looking at having at least a one-year moratorium. As a landowner and as a Pasco County citizen, I would very much appreciate a consideration of three to five-year moratorium
for this because if I as a single entity, my uncle and I, are being that aggressively approached and present. by local realtor developers, realtor brokers and developers for our land because it is it's a hundred acres combined. continuous land to be used to this point, I don't think that we're safe with a mere one year moratorium. So I would appreciate a consideration of much longer than that, even despite
the fact that this is a um this is this is y'all's year. Um potential turnover, potential new Board of Commission. Um I think that that should be something that is taken into stronger consideration than just one year. Thank you very much.
Commissioner Mariano. Uh I just want to make sure everyone knows by law one year is our our our limit.
The Supreme Court has set a reasonable time period. One year is the is what they have previously said. if there are reasons to go beyond that year, we've always advised the commission that they can go. in incremental steps beyond that year, usually it's another six months to finish up regulations, but no, a three to five year moratorium is not Uh legal under federal law.
So after this year, as it comes to the end, if we think we need more time, we can look to accepting
you extended. One other thing that I did forget to mention. Um other areas that have these data centers that is already being established that um they are they are seeing in certain animals uh effects of what is called the Havana syndrome. I don't know if that is a topic that has been discussed yet. Or if that's what you're gonna be taking the year to talk about. But I do want to go on record saying that that is already an established problem in other areas where the AI data centers are, it's affecting the livestock. I have a farm, so I literally have cows
and pigs.
We did talk about wildlife, et cetera. But if you want to submit that in an email,
I would be happy to do that. Thank you.
Thank you.
Sir, that's all who's signed up in person. There is someone online, but if you want to take any
anyone else in the audience would like to speak about the data centers? Okay, we'll close it inside online. We've
got hands.
Oh okay.
You can give your name and address before you start.
Can you hear me? Yes. I'm trying to make sure. 'Cause I'm a bit quiet, sorry. Um Emerson Martin [address removed]. Um good afternoon Commissioners. Today you will make a decision and I trust in your intelligence to make the right one. Thus will commence the next 12 months of you reviewing research. Last time I spoke to you all, I gave you some information on the personal accounts of those that live near data centers. Now I would like to give you a head start with some peer-reviewed
information from Health Implications of the Rapid Rise of Data Centers in Virginia and Exploratory Assessment by Neha Gore, Louis Ortiz, and Dr. Edward Maibach of George Mason University. They first explained that gas and particle pollution from these centers can be linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, various cancers, neurological disorders, and conditions such as stroke, dementia, diabetes, and childhood asthma. They also call attention to the likelihood of power outages being especially dangerous
during times of severe weather like heat waves. The dangers of heat are all too familiar to us here in Pasco. They then site for water, a medium-sized data center of 15 megawatts, consumes as much water as three hospitals. This water is then polluted, which leads to contamination in groundwater supplies. These increase the risks of water scarcity, waterborne diseases, and poor maternal health and infant outcomes. And yes, noise pollution is a real thing. The health impacts of noise pollution include long
term risks such as heart disease, permanent hearing loss, tinnitus, chronic effects such as hypertension and endocrine disruption. They also lead to psychological issues such as increased stress related disorders and agitation, as well as impact the cognitive development of children. My main concern is these centers for generative AI, because that is what they are being built for, and surveillance. We have Facebook and email for years before the AI that we know today. I think that anyone
will tell y I think Anyone will t that will tell you that this AI has been around for as long as we can remember is forgetting that part. You're going to hear many people say that generative AI is inevitable, but it is not. We all are we all we're sorry, we are all participants in this ecosystem and we all have choices to make in it. We all have power and you have much more power than we do and we entrust this power in you. I understand that you cannot outright ban data centers due to state laws, but
you can certainly heavily regulate them, even to an extent that would make their existence nearly impossible. I hope that at the end of these twelve months, if you still decide to not regulate, that you really do sit with yourself and consider who does and who does not deserve to live a happy and healthy life.
Some people say, not in my backyard. Well then in whose? Which people do we sacrifice for the health which people do we sacrifice the health for of the sake of the ugliest of graphic designs, brain rot, surveillance, misinformation, and millions of dollars lining the pockets of those who will never have to decide between their utility bills and having to get that cough checked out. Alright, thank you so much.
Okay. Thank you. If you would like to you send that by email or whatever, we can put that in the record too for you. Thank you. Anyone else in the audience would like to speak? Anyone else please come forward, line up behind each other?
So these two would be last for public comment, then we'll go to the one online. Okay.
Hi. Um my legal name is Gabriel Quigley, but I prefer Marion. But I'm just gonna go and I'm gonna say
Can you give your address for the record?
Yeah, can I
add that to the record?
M-A-R-I-A-N. No
address for the record.
Oh sorry.
That's okay.
[address removed]. All right, thank you. Okay. So this is an election year and I'm not here to threaten y'all's jobs. I think you guys have been more than amicable. With providing a one-year moratorium. And you even said this is going to pass. You seem very confident that this is going to pass. But I would like to say that. You guys need to be thinking about the long game here because once y'all's time is up, if
you decide to keep running for elected office, there will still be a community that lives here. And we need to decide if that community is going to belong to flock Hyper surveillance systems, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, data centers, or the people that live here. The farmers and the ranchers and the kids who go to school and the parents who want good lives for their children.
Retailers, landbrokers, and developers in this state are out of control. They are out of control. They are in a race to the bottom to Divvy up as much land in Florida as possible and if nothing changes by the year twenty seventy seventy percent of this state will be paved over. And at that point, who is gonna want to live here? We are just going to be Red California. That's
all. Thank you guys. Have a great day. Thank
you.
Hello, my name's Brittany Box. I live at um uh sorry. [address removed]. Um I just moved there recently from Tampa and Actually I've discovered that I lived not very far from a data center when I lived in Tampa. Um Here recently and I have breast cancer. Um I did not have any symptoms before I lived in that area. Um it it just I just found
out after I m had lived there for about four or five months. Um And we did not have adequate water filtration at the apartment complex I lived at. So I believe that could be a contributing factor as to why I've developed breast cancer. Um because I don't do not have it in my history of my family. Um there's no one with breast cancer. Um furthest back, probably great-grandma is the the only one that had it. Um they tested my genetics. There was nothing in
that in my genetics that showed that I should have gotten breast cancer. Um Anyways, I know that that is one of the side effects from the contamination from data centers. Um And I just wanted to Put that on record. But um Also I believe our vi our rights are being violated by having these data centers in our communities and with the um advent of the the flock cameras and the um the potential
um using these data centers to phase out regular workers in in the tech industry. Um My boyfriend also is a computer engineer, which he is very fearful of the future when it comes to AI advancement. And um I know I've seen a of lot of interviews with um say Elon Musk talking about how eventually we won't have to work and there's gonna be AI implementation all all over the place and we're we're not
It's gonna be like a hobby to work but and that we're gonna get a um a basic income. Possibly. That to me sounds very scary. It sounds a little bit like communism and I think that is not a good step for our country. And also um
Um I don't believe that giving up our liberty for a little bit of safety is a good thing. Um Just we really need to think before we allow AI to take over everything.
And uh
It's just a very scary time for My deterrent? We don't know what's gonna happen and we already can't afford anything. So If we are no longer able to work, what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
And and that's all I have to say.
Thank you.
Anyone's online?
Don't know whether he's in the easy thing.
Last one.
Is there anyone else behind this gentleman because we're going to close it off firm? Okay, this will be the last speaker until the one person online. Go ahead, sir. Name and address for the record.
[address removed]. So I recently was informed about the July 7th workshop for the county, I'm sure you all remember. I I came across a section and forgive me if this is already on the agenda. I didn't have time to go through it all the way, but it relates to the current issue in the sense of AI. So I actually had questions. The planning and permitting plans
for the AI and for building and yeah, building and permitting processes, I was just curious as to What that entails.
It's not a question and answer. You've got three minutes to talk.
Okay.
We're dealing with the data center issue right now.
I understand. Thank you.
Okay. So the individual who is online is Julia Bartunik.
Jul Julie, are you there?
Yes, hello, Julia Bartunik, uh [address removed]. Uh I'll keep this short, sweet, and simple. Uh Wakula and Jackson Counties have established uh precedence for a total and permanent ban on data centers and my hopes is through uh this moratorium that Pasco County can do the same and that stakeholders and the public are allowed full sunshine uh within
this moratorium process. Thank you so much.
Okay. Thank you. That'll close public comment. It is to the board.
Move to approve.
Second.
All in favor of roll call vote. Okay.
Yes, thank you. It is a roll call vote. District 1, Commissioner Oakley.
Aye.
District 2, Commissioner Weightman. District 3, Commissioner Starkey. Aye. District 4, Commissioner Yeager. Aye. District 5, Chairman Mariano.
Aye. Passes unanimously. Thank you all. Please vote applause. All right, item P eighty. Do we have proof?
P eighty. Uh so you want seventy-nine first?
Are we going back to regular P seventy nine?