resources sustain valuable wildlife habitat, provide flood control and fire suppression, scenic views, and resources for hunting and fishing. This land also acts as an enormous carbon sink, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere, which helps combat climate change.

Heat- (abc4.com) and growtheflowutah.org Salt Lake City, May 7, 2026. "Box Elder County has found the combined thermal output of the center could release heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs daily." Dr. Rob Davies, a physics professor at Utah State, prepared the analysis that estimates the energy footprint of the proposed data center is comparable to 40,000 Walmart Supercenters.

https://www.pbs.org/video/we-saw-what-ai-data-centers-dont-want-you-to-see-n1ewcf/ A great video to watch.

Why are journalists doing these observations instead of regulators? The administration right now is pro AI policies. With gutting of environmental and enforcement agencies, if journalists wouldn't be doing this would anybody?

Some information from the above PBS video:

The video shows the data center plant in thermal imaging, you see the tremendous amount of heat they are using.

A lot of secrecies happen with these centers.

Approx. at 12:24 minutes- The companies building these data centers almost always promise that they'll use renewable or nuclear energy when they announce their projects. When you look at the data most of what's being built right now is powered by natural gas. It said it'll be at least 2028 before renewable powered A1. Nuclear at least a decade or more away. These fossil fuel powered facilities generate fine particulate matter. Widely understood to be detrimental to human health. Approx. 16:34 minutes- They rely on a quick approval process for permits in the beginning, then they go for bigger permits once they're there. This strategy enables the center to get a foothold in the communities without public input. Small first, bigger latter so it makes it impossible to stop them later. Approx. at 18 minutes- Massive amounts of air pollution. Creating health impacts like respiratory, cardiovascular, children and elderly with asthma are affected.

Approx. 19 minutes- So much unseen in these operations, are their permits appropriate? Are private energy grids sufficiently regulated for safety and pollution?

My personal thoughts:

Two things people need to survive is clean water and air, let's not mess with this.

This quote from a person at the Palo, IA council meeting I watched says a lot. “We can not drink data and we can’t eat money.”

Let's not make major mistakes we can never change. All because we didn't wait and learn from other communities' mistakes. Technology changes so quickly, if we wait things will be more environmentally friendly in future years. "Good things come to those who wait." Please say, NO to any large data center in Dubuque. Long term health concerns to our people and animals are a huge concern.

Thank you for your time in reading this letter.

Sincerely, Kim Veach 12216 English Mill Road