Hey everyone! The Tulare County fairgrounds is in talks with a southern California company to bring a data center to the fairgrounds. A data center here is a terrible idea. We're perpetually in a drought as is, it would pollute our water and land, noise pollution as well, not to mention that AI is meant to also offload work force.
Come out to the board tomorrow tomorrow 7/21 at 6 pm. The Jockey Club 620 South K St, Tulare. You can also attend virtually via Zoom but in person support always sends the strongest message.
This is a non-partisan issue that will affect us all. Please come and say your piece or attend in support. This may be our communities only chance to prevent a data center near us.
**** Update post meeting:****
It was a great turn out, I'd say at least 200+ people showed up. The first two hours were just for public comment. The DAA made it clear that they were not voting on the item today, so I think there will be future occasions (and need) for the residents to come out again.
The DAA says that they're not building a data center, but some sort of other infrastructure. This is straight from Global Stack's handout: Global Stack USA is a California-based infrastructure development company focused on strengthening the state's emergency resilience.
They're supposed to be some sort of emergency response... center. I dont even know bc it's vague. To me, and everyone else at the meeting, it seems like a lot of vague terms meant to dupe is into agreeing to a data center dressed up as something else.
The guys that are running Global Stack are data-center guys, according to their LinkedIns. Global Stack was seemingly founded this year, or hasn't been around for very long. They're looking for a 100-year contract with Tulare. They're simultaneously looking to open centers at 69 other fairgrounds in our state and many other cities have already rejected their proposal.
Global Stacks is the holding company for three other companies that in totality are companies for data centers (Mesh Clusters LLC), parking structures (DAA Parking LLC), and space-tech and defense software company or maybe a helicopter landing network (Pan Galactica LLC).
MeshClusters - the data center - is what was presented at today's Hanford meeting, just FYI.
Btw most of this is not info given at the meeting. It's info I had to look up on my own based on tidbits of info gleaned from their vague statement.
I'll add this info to my post.