I’m requesting assistance to draft an email to our city council here in small-city-near-a-big-city Canada to help them decide to not allow an AI datacenter to be built. They said they won’t read a big long letter with citations and everything which is sort of unfortunate, because it’s what I had prepared, but I feel I’ve got to write something.
Is there a list of punchy and true reasons why a small community would absolutely not want one of these things up in Canada here in a short form? My habit of over-writing things will only hurt, so it needs to make sense to people only barely tech-literate. This is why I need help.
Background: I run a medium-sized IT firm and am very familiar with how they operate and what they entail. In fact, my company was selected to help implement the center until we saw the plans and the future scale (more than 10x) with the lack of care they envisioned and chose to back out completely.
Talk to a reporter and get them to interview the council about why they don’t went to hear rebuttels against a data center. Bring it up in council meetings and grill them about why they won’t hear rebuttels against a data center. Be loud about how the city council doesn’t went to hear rebuttels against a data center. If they’re going to dismiss your concerns, put the pressure on them to explain why they don’t need to hear your and other peoples voices and concerns.