Good morning everyone.
Here are the remaining June meetings as it relates to the Ogle County Board:
June 16th, 5:30pm: County Board Meeting (3rd Floor County Board Room), Agenda and Packet
June 18th, 6:00pm: Regional Planning Commission (1st Floor Conference Room #100), Agenda TBD
June 25th, 6:00pm: Zoning Board of Appeals (3rd Floor County Board Room #317), Agenda TBD
Once again, as a gentle reminder:
If you plan on speaking, the 3 to 5 minute range has become a bit muddled. Some meetings have allowed for only 3 minutes (the APZ on June 9th being one). Some meetings have allowed for 5 minutes. Some committees have allowed speakers to “borrow time” from others. It was made clear that speakers are only allowed three minutes and that borrowing time was not allowed. Please continue to show up. Please continue to engage civically and with civility. And carpool if you can.
On a slighty different note, this testimony from Amanda Mueller, formerly of San Antonio and now of Port Washington, Wisconsin is one well worth your listen:
Living Near a Hyperscale Data Center (Port Washington, Wisconsin)
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Living with a Data Center. Amanda Mueller of the Town of Port Washington, WI, lives less than a half mile from one of the largest Data Center construction sites in the country - The Vantage Oracle/OpenAI Hyperscale Data Center on the coast of Lake Michigan.
Amanda shares her experience of living with the data center and its construction - the light, noise, dust, chemicals. She’s no stranger to data centers, having lived in San Antonio, TX before moving to Port Washington, WI.
Amanda includes her story of February 2021, when a polar vortex came through her community and people lost their power + water in below freezing temperatures. How people froze to death without power - but the data centers kept running.
This was part of the Wisconsin Rapids Data Center info town hall. Data Centers are planned, proposed, all across Wisconsin. Residents in Port Washington, Milwaukee, Madison, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Rapids, Eau Claire, The Driftless Region, Beloit, and Kenosha overwhelmingly say something to the effect of: “No Data Centers. It’s Dairyland not Dataland”.