Data center moratorium and utility capacity

49:48fine. This is the uh the local viral and is this the one where the hospitals

49:54I was the emotion too. Wait, wait, wait. There was aye. Aye.

50:02The uh The other the the the the medium and I'd like David Engle to to come up to um to support on this. Um our our our team has been leaning forward as it as it comes uh to deal with data centers, as we know that this is a a national issue that has a lot of implications on not only our our infrastructure but also our natural resources. And our land development code provisions right now don't really Regulate the use of data centers, right? We have the term data processing

50:32that that exists there, but that originates from a zoning code back when. Oh Harold, you were. We'll run things. Um so the data centers aren't really identified as the CPUs. We have concerns, obviously, right? Infrastructure, utility capacity, which includes electricity demand, water consumption, wastewater treatment capacity, as well as environmental concerns, which include but are not limited to noise and light pollution. So in conjunction with the discussions with Jeff's team, we are requesting

51:02that the board provide us with formal direction for us to go ahead and propose a 12-month moratorium on data centers so that way we can conduct a comprehensive evaluation of these impacts and identify any deficiencies in our existing zoning regulations. During that moratorium period, our planning department will research best practices for the regulation of data centers by examining approaches used in jurisdictions across the nation and reviewing relevant white papers and academic literature.

51:35Oh wait, never mind discussion. Yes, sorry. So I I talked to uh David Lambert from With Lakuchi about this issue uh coming forward and he said that anything under twenty megawatts was not an issue whatsoever. Is that going to be part of this ordinance, a moratorium, or is it separate from it? Well uh Commissioner David Engel, Planning and Economic Development. Uh it is. In fact, uh we're asking for So it no, we we are considering the

52:05smaller types of data centers, just to give you some context here, this is a request for a temporary moratorium. We're not prohibiting or asking to prohibit forever data centers. So um going back about three and a half months, uh guy named Commissioner Mariano called me and says, Hey, I'm up here with Sony in Washington. You know, there's this the talk of the town, it's these data centers. So I said, well, you know, we we should really start addressing it internally. So what we started doing, we did some preliminary research, uh, we talked to some stakeholders.

52:36And we realize that the term data center is a commit of from 20 megawatt max out to hyperscalers that are taking up hundreds of acres. you know, millions square foot building with no chops in. Yeah, no no revenue coming in. And it's a heavy drawing natural resources. So we realize we have to do some work. Now we know that there are data centers that'll be proposed here in the county that will support specific economic development-driven projects for our local use. For example, Spiro's. Uh

53:06it's a 16 million square foot uh RD and biotech facility. They will need some data center support because that's part of their necessary 21st century infrastructure to operate their activities. So we want to allow those with certain conditions and make sure that it doesn't isn't deleterious to the environment, doesn't raise electric bills and that type of thing. And then it's all the way to the hypercenter, which is not directly supporting Pasco business or our economic development

53:36plan. That would be another consideration. So what we like to do is we'd like to quickly, and we're hopefully we're not gonna take the full year. We want to meet with our economic development people. Um those are the that's the Moffits, those are the double branches that we have economic development agreements with are at large. millions of square feet of development and see what they foresee in their future. And then we also want to do what what Mike Ravala had just indicated. We want to do a global analysis, be very careful, and

54:06then come back with some recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners. And there is um We do have a proposal to get on the Planning Commissioner the Local Planning Agency agenda at their next meeting with an ordinance proposal. This will be the finding um the defining ordinance modification where we're taking data processing centers and we're and then we're we're gonna put that in an already permitted use bucket but we want to define what a data center is we have no definition and there's ambiguity in our

54:36code number two There is a um there is a cause that uh a cause of necessity if let's say Spiro's came in uh two weeks from now and they needed critically needed a data center and it was of the size and capacity that we could handle here successfully in the county with our electric providers and our water situation. then uh it would give the the board the ability to uh go ahead and approve that even though we have a temporary moratorium place. So we are that that that clause was

55:06drafted by our county attorney's office. We're really thankful that uh Mr. Claire helped us out with that. We have a meeting uh tomorrow just to kind of fine-tune that language, but there will be a there will be a a clause of necessity in the proposed temporary Good language. Well I appreciate the um research you're doing, going to do, et cetera. Um But there's a provision in case we do have a MOMFA type situation, it could be someone else as well, that we have the right to have the exception to that if we find out it's not gonna affect

55:36energy uh water consumption. So with that provision there, I'm comfortable with your Trying to do a bit if you could. Maybe if you're getting these white things that are you just kind of circulated with that with us so we can kind of stay abreast as this is evolving.

55:53I I can see the impetus to it but I also have heard from something from the private sector where it's not as bad as everybody's saying depending on the Senator that's gonna commend et cetera. So that's right. And and and I and I and I hear you as the commissioner and you know I saw a lot of these emails flooding in. We went in for a trickle now we have a deluge of these uh of these emails and most of the people don't understand what Pasco's doing and what we're focused on. But I did send out an email to the all your legislative aides giving them the context and framework of what's going on working on. And we will share

56:24our Research library with the board if you'd like. Thank you.

56:30Um Understand. You're just authorizing them to advertise over it. To adapt the moratorium. Our recommendation is to have the broadest title that you can have. You can always pair that back so you can

56:48So um It's gonna have to go through planning commission and then it's gonna go.

56:55Okay. Well

56:56mentioned.

56:57Yeah,

56:57thank you. Obviously we're working on the definition of Yeah, so there's that just run off the air conditioned to keep cool, the smaller footprint and then the hyperscale. Fucking. Thank you so much. Important that we

57:13understand on the sizable dance singers. what

57:19areas they would be looking. if they were to go to Pasco where they would land. Obviously there'd be a large loss of land Uh uh It would be probably eyeballing

57:28but Think it'd be if we take a proactive approach. That way we know

57:33kind of

57:35uh

57:35where the big fish will want to go and then where the smaller fish would want to go. I think that would be helpful for us to understand. And and also there's an an issue of climate. Some of the uh hyperscalers may not be attracted to Pasco because of our uh tropical storm impact. So we don't know, but we're gonna Find out what the market is bearing, where things can go, what are the consequences of this development, and report back