Data centres/stupid stolen AI and tech billionaire greed making electricity unaffordable for many (and forcing rebirth of deadly coal and escalating water destroying frac’ing. Just will until Carney finishes conquering Canada with Bill-C2, American AI and spy-on-us killer tech paid for by our tax dollars. We won’t be able to afford water either with gov’ts giving free frac’d gas to data centres, making us pay for it, and to clean up after the AI bubble busts.

@redsnoopy69:

Canada went from Harper to Trudeau to Harper 2.0…

Grey and white cartoon by Paul Noth showing a homeowner checking his mail and calling on his cell phone. His neighbour is a massive data centre. Text says, "ChatGPT, why is my electric bill so high?"

@tryangregory.bsky.social‬:

Still can’t believe we have a Minister of Artificial Intelligence.

@dollythedino.bsky.social‬:

Agree and no disability minister to represent 25 percent of Canadians.

@brokenglasskink.bsky.social‬:

and that he’s a corrupt failed journalist

@puddleduck.bsky.social‬:

Minister of Enshittification but no Minister of Labour

@kvasir1312.bsky.social‬:

Still can’t believe that Evan Solomon is taken seriously in any context.

@dumpcreek.bsky.social‬:

US has a lot of extremely artificial “intelligence”.

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Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy, In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

We tried the AI tool Evan Solomon used to summarize an AI bill. It didn’t go well

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70 leading Canadians, civil society groups ask Carney to protect Canada’s ‘digital sovereignty’, Open letter calls for a new digital services tax and Liberal border bill to be killed by Peter Zimonjic, CBC News, Sep 02, 2025

Dozens of experts, academics and organizations have released an open letter urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to swiftly “defend Canada’s digital sovereignty” and protect the country from the whims of the Trump administration.

The letter says Carney has argued Canada must become an energy superpower and get big projects built, but not spent enough time talking about the need to secure Canada’s digital economy.

“Empires once built railways. Now they build algorithms,” said Barry Appleton, a Toronto-based international trade lawyer and one of the letter’s signatories.

“If Canada cannot govern the code that governs Canadians, then we are no longer a sovereign democracy. We will be tenants in Trump’s regime.”

The signatories ask Carney to stake out protections for social media, cloud systems, AI engines, digital transactions and other data that can be “weaponized by a Trump regime seeking unchallenged technological dominance.”

The letter said action must be taken because 90 per cent of Canada’s internet traffic is currently routed through the U.S. or through U.S.-based tech giants.

Those tech giants, the letter said, make more than $20 billion tax-free annually from Canadian digital creators at the expense of Canadian artists.

It also said that foreign social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook play a big role in shaping Canadian political discussion without domestic oversight.

Canada also needs to act now to secure its digital sovereignty, the letter says, because U.S. companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google control most of Canada’s cloud infrastructure and CUSMA trade rules prevent the federal government from requiring those companies to store Canadians’ data north of the border.

Updating some legislation, scrapping others

Among the signatories of the letter are: Canadian writers Margaret Atwood and John Ralston Saul; filmmaker Atom Egoyan; former Gov. Gen Adrienne Clarkson and organizations such as the Canadian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Medical Association.

They want the Liberal government to take a number of steps to re-establish Canadian digital sovereignty including launching a public consultation with Canadians and experts on the issue.

Once experts and the public have had the chance to weigh in, the signatories want the federal government to publish an independent threat assessment on Canada’s digital infrastructure.

That would be followed by updating the Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the Online Harms Act — a bill tabled by the Trudeau Liberals that died on the order paper and which the Carney government is considering reviving.

The letter also calls on the federal government to reconsider its decision to kill the digital services tax (DST) which the Liberal government cancelled in June amid threats from the Trump administration.

The DST would have required tech giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay three per cent on revenues from Canadian users.

And the signatories want the Liberal government to “withdraw entirely the deeply flawed, anti-privacy Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act.” The legislation was introduced in June and currently sits at second reading.

The Strong Borders Act would give increased powers to Canada’s security and intelligence services, expand the ability to open and inspect mail and allow officials to cancel or suspend immigration documents.

The legislation also proposes changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Oceans Act, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act, the Criminal Code and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, among others.

The letter says Bill C-2 “opens the door to unprecedented surveillance and cross-border data sharing with the U.S. that, under President Trump, has become increasingly unreliable, authoritarian and out of step with liberal democracies around the world.”

A spokesperson for Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon acknowledged the letter, but didn’t say if the government would be following any of its recommendations.

“Canadians have made it clear that they want trusted digital platforms and protections, and we are committed towhich means – just like frac’ers and oil and gas polluters – they’ll do nothing toimplementing regulation that is clear, without hindering innovation and growth,”there’s Carney’s Nazi orange skin showing again – this means Nazi USA, teamed with genocidal Israel and their evil spy and kid killer tech – including Steve Harper’s vile firm, and the tech billoinaires get to do to Canadians and our data what it wants the spokesperson said in an email.

“We want to acknowledge the work put into this report and thank the Canadians who have worked to provide their recommendations.”Translation: Bla bla fuck you bla bla

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@tryangregory.bsky.social‬:

JFC

@hypervisible.blacksky.app‬:

Local man embraces fascism.

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VALUABLE WATCH Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 35:48 Min

… Everywhere in the European Union, your data privacy is treated and recognized as a fundamental human right.

Their general data protection regulation requires you to explicitly opt in before your personal data can be logged or collected. And this provides the framework for similar protections in the UK, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, South Korea, CanadaNot for long under Herr Hideous Nazi Carney!, India, even China, and so on. …

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In Americawhile *of course* protecting con and Repuglican kid rapists, especially religious leaders and der Disgusting Orange PedoFührer by Thomas Brewster, Sepr 3, 2025, Forbes

With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools and a $7.5 billion business. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker DJI in his sights on the way to his noble (if Sisyphean) goal: Preventing all crime in the U.S.

In a windowless room inside Atlanta’s Dunwoody police department, Lieutenant Tim Fecht hits a button and an insectile DJI drone rises silently from the station rooftop. It already has its coordinates: a local mall where a 911 call has alerted the cops to a male shoplifter. From high above the complex, Fecht zooms in on a man checking his phone, then examines a group of people waiting for a train. They’re all hundreds of yards away, but crystal clear on the room-dominating display inside the department’s crime center, a classroom-sized space with walls covered in monitors flashing real- time crime data—surveillance and license plate reader camera feeds, gunshot detection reports, digital maps showing the location of cop cars across the city. As more 911 calls come in, AI transcribes them on another screen. Fecht can access any of it with a few clicks.

Twenty minutes down the road from Dunwoody, in an office where Flock Safety’s cameras and gunshot detectors are arrayed like museum pieces, 38-year-old CEO and cofounder Garrett Langley presides over the $300 million (estimated 2024 sales) company responsible for it all. Since its founding in 2017, Flock, which was valued at $7.5 billion in its most recent funding round, has quietly built a network of more than 80,000 cameras pointed at highways, thoroughfares and parking lots across the U.S. They record not just the license plate numbers of the cars that pass them, but their make and distinctive features—broken windows, dings, bumper stickers. Langley estimates its cameras help solve 1 million crimes a year. Soon they’ll help solve even more. In August, Flock’s cameras will take to the skies mounted on its own “made in America” drones. Produced at a factory the company opened earlier this year near its Atlanta offices, they’ll add a new dimension to Flock’s business and aim to challenge Chinese drone giant DJI’s dominance.

Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S. (He acknowledges that programs to boost youth employment and cut recidivism will help.) It sounds like a pipe dream from another AI-can-solve- everything tech bro, but Langley, in the face of a wave of opposition from privacy advocates and Flock’s archrival, the $2.1 billion (2024 revenue) police tech giant Axon Enterprise, is a true believer. He’s convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be

“I’ve talked to plenty of activists who think crime is just the cost of modern society. I disagree,” Langley says. “I think we can have a crime-free city and civil liberties. . . . We can have it all.” In municipalities in which Flock is deployed, he adds, the average criminal—those between 16 and 24 committing nonviolent crime—“will most likely get caught.”

Not always, though. Back at the Dunwoody Police Department, the cops are unable to identify that shoplifter. But Fecht and his boss, Major Patrick Krieg, are quick to reel off other cases in which they say Flock was pivotal in finding offenders: an ATM theft gang that knocked off pharmacies across the East Coast until Flock’s cameras tracked one of their getaway vehicles; an armed man headed into a bustling bar district identified via drone by the tattoo on his neck and apprehended before he could do harm; a woman who had pulled a gun on her neighbor. When the July 4 parade, the biggest in Georgia, comes to Dunwoody a few days later, Flock cameras will be watching for those who might disrupt it. “It just gives us the opportunity to ensure the safety of the community during huge events like that,” Krieg says.

Fresh from a family vacation in Europe, the tall and athletic Langley is cheery, almost buoyant. Growth has been explosive, with revenue up some 70% from the estimated $175 million it booked in 2023. It’s not yet profitable and has no imminent plan to be as it prioritizes growth, backed by a $275 million March funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Those numbers were more than sufficient to land Flock on Forbes’ 2025 Cloud 100 list of the top private cloud computing companies. Langley says turning Flock into a $100 billion business is “very within reach.” Ilya Sukhar, an early investor and partner at VC firm Matrix who sits on Flock’s board, agrees. “It’s a bit cliché, but it does feel like we’re just getting started,” he says. “It’s not hard for me to project to a place where we get to that level.”

Each Flock license plate reader cam costs between $3,000 and $3,500, with an additional fee for FlockOS, the operating system that makes all the data Flock collects accessible via a browser or a mobile app, based on either the number of users or cameras. Dunwoody PD, for instance, pays around $500,000 annually for its array of 105 cameras, gunshot detectors, that skittering DJI drone and the software that controls it all.

Flock’s growth isn’t solely fueled by its 5,000 law enforcement customers across 49 states (it hasn’t yet installed its cameras in Alaska). It has 1,000 corporate customers, including blue chips like FedEx, Lowe’s and Simon Property, America’s largest mall owner. Then there are housing and homeowner associations, small businesses, schools and organizations like the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, which has installed 64 Flock cameras across different properties in the city, including a community center that has reported a recent spike in antisemitic threats to Dunwoody police. All these customers can choose to grant the police access to their camera feeds, further expanding the surveillance coverage Flock can offer law enforcement. Many do.

Langley had no experience in police tech when he and fellow Georgia Tech alums Matt Feury, 36, and Paige Todd, 40, started the company in 2017. Previously they’d worked together on an app Langley cofounded for upgrading sports or concert seats to VIP-status events, where Feury and Todd were early employees. (It was acquired by Atlanta-based conglomerate Cox Enterprises and no longer exists.) Inspired by an unsolved robbery in Langley’s neighborhood, the trio started work on the first Flock prototype, an Android phone camera in a waterproof box that took pictures of cars and picked out license plates that could then be searched via an app. It was crude, but proof of concept.

When Sukhar first invested in Flock in 2018, the company was struggling to build the device the founders had envisioned: a weatherproof, solar-powered, always-on camera that could quickly snap accurate photos and transmit them over the internet to an Amazon cloud server where they could be reviewed and compared at scale. “That took some time to figure out,” he says. By 2020, Flock had it all dialed in and was quickly building out a network of cameras that would soon extend across the country. And it already had an eager customer in law enforcement; cops loved the idea of searching a countrywide network of cameras to track down a suspect vehicle.

The Vault

LA PLUS ÇA CHANGE

Long before Flock was blanketing America with solar-powered cameras, license plate reading was done the old-fashioned way: by humans. In 1925, the federal government had a plan to catch criminals by making plates easier to see. Ever contrarian, Forbes was skeptical—not just of plate readers, but of license plates themselves.

“License number plates of motor vehicles vary in dimensions, colors, heights of numerals and provisions for attachment and illumination. Ray M. Hudson, chief of the Division of Simplified Practice, Department of Commerce, wants them made uniformly alike in all States to help in the catching of law-breakers…

Isn’t this idea hasty? Suppose the number is read in one case out of a hundred, and that the information reaches someone who apprehends the culprit in one case out of one thousand. Then the plate is useful in one case out of 100,000…

On the whole, it might be better Simplified Practice to abolish altogether the large, unsightly, nightly illuminated, normally begrimed and annually rejuvenated or replaced license number plate than to standardize it.” —Forbes, March, 1, 1925

Not everyone shares law enforcement’s enthusiasm for Flock’s rapid expansion. Privacy advocates say the company is building an unprecedented mass-surveillance dystopia. One activist group, DeFlock, has crowdsourced a map of license plate reader camera locations that now tops 29,000, two-thirds of which are from Flock, and runs a Discord channel where users are encouraged to challenge rollouts in their area. Creator Will Freeman, based in Boulder, Colorado, says what Flock is building is “messed up and against the principles of the Fourth Amendment” because “they’re searching all the time.” He accused Langely of wanting to “put the whole country under surveillance while he profits.” Other activists are less verbal. Cameras have been vandalized and stolen. There have been physical threats against company employees. Langley, who described those threatening the company as “terrorists,” is worried enough about being targeted that Flock’s offices, manufacturing facilities and camera installation vans are purposefully logoless.

But his most pressing concern by far is police-tech behemoth Axon. Flock had a burgeoning partnership with the publicly traded ($59 billion market cap) Taser creator after Axon made a minority investment back in 2020. The market incumbent, founded in 1993, had promised to promote Flock license plate readers and make them work seamlessly with Axon’s tech. But in January, Axon CEO and billionaire cofounder Rick Smith killed their deal, accusing Flock of overcharging and trying to lock customers into its products. In April, Axon debuted its own stand-alone license plate reader cameras along with a shot-across-the-bow first customer: the Atlanta Police Department, a current Flock user. Axon is charging 20% less for its cameras, and early adopters get the first year of their software free.

Langley is returning fire. He says Axon is a monopolist abusing its market position to choke out competition. “I plan to go take them out,” he says. “We will deliver a better product at a lower price.”

He isn’t the first to make such allegations. In 2020, the FTC challenged Axon’s acquisition of bodycam rival VieVu, claiming the merger would effectively create a monopoly. While the agency dropped the complaint three years later because of legal delays, three local governments—Baltimore, Holmdel, New Jersey, and LaSalle County, Illinois—are suing Axon, alleging much the same. Axon has denied accusations of anticompetitive behavior; the case is ongoing. In a recent investor presentation, it said it controls less than 15% of the $11 billion law enforcement market.

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Flock isn’t without regulatory troubles of its own. The state of Illinois is investigating whether cops broke the law there when they gave out-of-state agencies access to their Flock feeds to hunt down breaches of immigration or abortion law. (Flock has since updated its tools to prevent out-of-state sharing in states with laws prohibiting it.) Last year, a Forbes investigation found Flock had regularly failed to get the correct permits and licenses to deploy its devices, appearing to break a number of local laws. Langley admits the company is “still very far from perfect” but that in cases where it has struggled to get quick permit approvals from transportation agencies, waiting 12 months “just doesn’t make sense.” He complains that “it feels like we were penalized for saving a kid from being hit by a car and we got caught for jaywalking.”

Other jurisdictions have tried either to ban or remove Flock and its ilk. Earlier this year, the city council in Austin, Texas, chose not to renew its Flock contract; one councilor cited Forbes’ investigation and pointed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement having accessed Flock data.

In 2023, the Camden County Commission in Missouri passed a law barring police from using license plate readers, but already deployed Flock cameras didn’t come down immediately. After Flock ignored requests by local commissioner Ike Skelton to remove a camera, he took it down himself. He was swiftly charged by local prosecutors with tampering with a public utility and obstructing government operations; if convicted, he won’t be able to run for public office again. The case is yet to be heard in court, but Skelton tells Forbes he believed he was operating within “the law of the land” and the ordinance banning plate readers in Camden County. He remains worried not just about his job, but also Flock’s creation of a “surveillance system that you’ll never, ever know that you’re being tracked.”

None of this is slowing Langley down. “The consequence of building a product that actually changes people’s lives is that there will be a lot of people we piss off along the way, because what we’re doing actually matters,” he says.

The company is chugging along with new products in the pipeline. It’s adding car crash detection to its gunshot flagging system, Raven, and enhancements to its license plate camera feeds. Further out, there’s Nova, Flock’s crown jewel to be, born of the company’s February 2025 acquisition of Lucidus, a Nashville, Tennessee–based startup. Flock has rebuilt the Lucidus tool, though the basic premise is the same: Nova promises to knit law enforcement records with all manner of public information—property and occupancy data, Social Security numbers and personal credit bureau histories—and make it all granularly searchable with AI.

Nova’s product lead, Martin Howley, recounts an anecdote about a law enforcement partner searching for a murder suspect. Using Nova to analyze drone footage, the cops were able to determine the six-hour window in which a victim’s body was dumped in a specific location, allowing them to tighten their search of Flock cameras for cars in the area at the time. In emails obtained by Forbes, an Amazon Web Services law enforcement director described Lucidus’ tech as “one of the most amazing tools that I have seen for law enforcement”—and that was before Flock got its hands on it. “It’s an end run around privacy laws and the Constitution,” says ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley.

Expanding alongside Flock’s product line is its mission. The company thinks it can not only solve crimes but improve traffic management and expedite street repairs. Langley envisions a benevolent American panopticon where everyone feels safe and cities use all the data at their disposal to improve our quality of life. “We’ve got all these Flock cameras deployed from a criminal perspective,” Langley says. “Why would we not then walk down to the public works department and say, ‘stop sending people out to look for potholes. I have all that data. Let’s build a better city together’?”

He’s most excited about Flock’s drones. In an industrial park 10 miles north of Atlanta, in a 97,000-square-foot, $10 million manufacturing facility, he shows one off. It’s unremarkable, little different from other police drones. But it’s American-made. That will matter if states follow a recent Florida order banning Chinese-made drones from police use. Langley concedes that no company can outdo DJI—for now. But he’s going to try.

Flock’s first stab at that mission will be in customers’ hands come August. In a test drive, a drone in Riverside County, California, rises from the roof of a Flock facility on the outskirts of town. Controlled via browser, with just a keyboard and mouse, it’s like playing a video game—no surprise given that Flock employed developers from the Overwatch first-person shooter game series to build it. Text pops up to explain what’s on the screen: a mental health care center, a McDonald’s. Then, with a simple scroll of the mouse, the camera zooms in on two men playing softball on a field hundreds of yards in the distance. The batter misses one, then hits a doozy. He has no idea he’s being watched from a surveillance company’s factory 2,000 miles away.

Senate Hearing: Susquehanna River Basin Commission – A.I. Data Centers Have A Dramatic Demand For Water, And The Potential To Be Among The Largest Water Consumers In The Basin by PA Environmental Digest, Aug 13, 2025

In testimony before the Senate Republican Policy Committee on August 11, Andrew Dehoff, P.E. Executive Director of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, said hyperscale data centers have the potential to be among the largest consumers of water in the basin, on par with power plants, which are by far the largest consumptive water users.

“With Pennsylvania poised to become a hub for data centers, there are many things to consider. In most media coverage of the potential development, power demands and the possible impact to grid reliability and consumer prices gain the most attention,” said Dehoff.

“But one of the most critical aspects of data center development, the dramatic demand for water, is often left out of the conversation despite water being our most basic human need.”

Where Will The Water Come From?

“As you’ve heard, the high-speed computing that is performed at hyperscale data centers generates a lot of heat that must be dissipated to avoid harm to the processors.

“Traditionally, water-based cooling methods have provided a convenient and cost-effective way to achieve the needed cooling by transferring the excess heat to water and evaporating it.

“I have to say, I was glad to hear the previous panel talk about water, and some of the water saving technologies that they’re employing and looking at.”

1 Million Gallons A Day

“As you’ve heard, a single hyperscale campus can evaporate millions of gallons of water every day, potentially putting a strain on local water resources.

“At that level of water demand, hyperscale centers have the potential to be among the largest consumers of water in the basin, and I imagine in Pennsylvania.

“I mentioned millions of gallons a day. That’s on par with power plants, which are by far our largest consumer of water.

“They also generate a lot of heat in their operations and need to dissipate that heat. They traditionally do it through evaporating water.”

“To put that millions of gallons a day into perspective, other significant water users, such as public drinking water systems, industrial facilities, irrigation for golf and agriculture, rarely consume anywhere near 1 million gallons alone.”

Developing New Water Sources

“Using traditional evaporative cooling methods, it is unlikely that a hyperscale data center will be able to obtain enough water from the local public water supplier.

“So if the data center is proposing to supply its own water from groundwater wells or a nearby stream or river, careful review will be necessary to ensure that the volume of water needed can be safely supported by the source without depleting it, without denying water to existing users, and without harming aquatic habitat and wildlife that rely on the water.

“But again, developing new water sources can take some time – for permitting, to build infrastructure such as pipelines and large pumps, to secure the power needed to run the pumps – so these centers run the real risk of wanting to be up and running before the water supply is in place.

“That’s why it is critical that we have discussions about water now, before companies finalize site selection and begin design and construction of hyperscale data centers.”

A Double Hit

“Complicating this water demand picture, as you’ve heard, along with data center development, there are proposals to build entirely new power plants solely to provide the power that these may need.

“Like I said, that’s good for the grid, but these power plants also consume massive amounts of water.

“That’s traditionally or potentially a double hit that our water resources can take to supply both the data center cooling and power plant cooling.”

Encouraging Water Use Efficiency, Dry Cooling

“We recognize the need to balance strong economic growth with everyday human needs and a healthy environment, and when a new industry with high water demand comes along, we figure it out, like we did with water needs for fracking in the Marcellus Shale.

“Part of striking that balance is looking for ways to conserve, reduce and mitigate water use.

“We saw such an opportunity in 2015, when 93 million gallons per day of all reported consumptive water use in the basin was attributed to existing power generation and new gas-fired power plants were being proposed left and right, each with 6-10 million gallons of additional demand.

“In response, our commissioners adopted a resolution that encouraged and offered incentives to use dry cooling technology for new power generation.

“Dry cooling uses ambient air to cool and condense steam, drastically lowering the amount of water consumed.

“Although at first resistant to the additional up-front costs and the threat of loss of efficiency in power generation, each of the four new plants that were constructed employed dry cooling, with impressive results.

“Through 2024, more than 45 billion gallons of water use has been avoided by the four plants. That’s as much as a 98% reduction of demand.

“Now, witnessing another large water user enter the scene, our commissioners expanded that resolution to encourage data centers and other emerging facilities to consider the use of dry, hybrid, or other watersaving technologies for cooling purposes.

“And, along with the 10-year track record of the power plants and the commitment to sustainable development by the A.I. companies, we’re expecting to see similar success in reducing water demands while still fostering development.

One Data Center So Far

“Today, SRBC has permitted only one data center water use, despite what we hear in the news, so it is still early, and I’m sure we will continue to learn.”

Adding Water To The Conversation Early

“I’m sure things will continue to evolve as the industry matures, as we’ve heard about some of the developing technologies, but it’s critical that we start adding water to the conversation early in the process of site selection and design.

“The Department Environmental Protection’s permit application consultation tool has proven effective at pulling together all agencies with a role in hyperscale data center development and identifying potential challenges early on.

“I aim to ensure that SRBC continues to be included in those group coordination meetings.

As part of that conversation, I think we need to be proactive with the leaders in the industry, and make sure they’re moving forward in accordance with some of the statements we’ve heard here today about developing in environmentally sustainable fashions.

“That needs to become the standard, not the exception.

“In closing, agencies like SRBC exist so that all users of the basin’s water resources have reliable, conflict-free, and sustainable water supply for current and future generations.

“I believe the necessary technology exists to incorporate hyperscale data centers into the mix, but we all need to be talking and pulling in the same direction now, before we get too far down the road.

“Thank you again for the opportunity to share some information.

Click Here for a copy of SRBC’s written testimony. Dehoff appears at about the 1:17 mark in the video.

Click Here for a video of the August 11 hearing and other testimony.

Resource Links – Using Mine Water For Data Center Cooling:

— Berkeley Lab: Repurposing Coal Assets For A Decarbonized Digital Economy

— DataCenterDynamics.com: Virginia Project Gets $3 Million To Cool Data Centers With Mine Water

— West Virginia University: Geothermal Energy On Abandoned Mine Lands

— Wise County, Virginia: Geothermal Cooling & Site Availability

— Invest In SW Virginia: Project Oasis – Geothermal Cooling From Underground Mines

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards:

— PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard – August 9 to 15 – Illegal Disposal Of 66,780 Gallons Of Conventional Wastewater; 4 Impoundments Not Restored; 3 Conventional Wells Mined Through [PaEN]

— DEP Issued Violations To Iron Cumberland, LLC For Illegally Disposing Of 66,780 Gallons Of Conventional Well Plugging Wastes At Coal Refuse Disposal Area In Greene County [PaEN]