What is a data center?
A data center is a physical facility used to house critical applications and data, providing the computing power to operate programs, storage to process information, and networking to link people to the resources they need to do their tasks and support organizational operations.
Waterford Town government has signed a Host Agreement with a novice developer to install mega data centers on Dominion’s Millstone property.
Detrimental to Waterford, East Lyme and all the citizens of Connecticut.
Affecting not only those within a 2.5 mile radius of Millstone, but all of Connecticut.
Now is the time to get involved, stop this poorly-planned project, and protect your home.
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The need to study data centers By State Rep. Holly Cheeseman The Day Guest Opinions April 11, 2024
With a large data center proposed to be built on the Millstone nuclear power plant’s property and many unanswered questions about the plan, my constituents in East Lyme and residents throughout the region want a data-driven assessment on how a data center would affect Connecticut and its electric customers.
STOP
The Hyperscale Data Centers Project at Millstone Point
Waterford and East Lyme Citizens
Need To Know .. because what you don’t know can hurt you!
Data Centers’ Impact
Health: Produce noise 24/7 both ambient and low level. which can even be heard and felt by adjacent communities. Studies have shown that this constant noise is detrimental to human and animal health and well-being.
Your purse: Our energy security is also at stake; our rates will rise over time; your electric bill will start to rise as proposed data centers draw power directly from Millstone #2 & #3, bypassing the grid that CT residents and businesses share, siphoning off 300+ megawatts per year, without paying the fees you do; gobbles up de-carbonized energy that would otherwise be provided to us all by Dominion.
Diminished Town of Waterford funds: No CT sales tax applied to any data center equipment; PILOT plan comes up short of standard Town of Waterford annual property taxation.
Extreme light pollution: Hundreds of exterior property lights create a lume, adding to the lume already produced by Millstone Power Plant, that can be seen for miles, across Niantic Bay and Fishers Island Sound; disturbs established migratory bird flyways and residents’ night-time living arrangements.
Destruction of 55+ acres of natural habitat on Millstone property: deeply impacts wildlife; drives animals away; threatens marine animals and ecosystems with noise and pollution; not really a “green” project as proposed by NE Edge LLC.
Destruction of the safety buffer for the nuclear reactors as planned over 50 years ago for the safety and security of the power plant.
Employment, short- and long-term: provide only 120 full-time jobs divided over 3 shifts. That’s only 40 people per shift operating a 1.5 million square foot commercial operation (Approximately twice the size of the Crystal Mall)
Construction employment: temporary; hiring highly-qualified out-of-town workers.
Are desirable targets for domestic and foreign terrorism.
Of great concern is that the building of these massive data centers would involve the removal of bedrock to build a foundation next to a nuclear power plant. What could possibly go wrong?
The controversial reputation of the developer, NE Edge, LLC, includes no track record of building data centers! With huge financial gain to be made by a very few, it is unclear exactly how this arrangement benefits the citizens of Waterford.