Stop Unchecked Data Center Expansion: Protect Our Public Water and Infrastructure
The Issue
Our water is a fundamental human right and a shared public resource—not a corporate coolant for Big Tech!
We are calling on our local city councils, county zoning boards, and state environmental protection agencies to enact an IMMEDIATE moratorium on the approval, construction, and expansion of hyperscale data centers until a comprehensive, independent hydrological and grid-stability impact study is completed.
The rapid, unregulated growth of data centers—accelerated by the massive boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure—presents a direct, critical threat to our public resources, public health, and basic utilities.
The Crisis: Threat to Our Water and Power
Massive Water Consumption: Standard data center cooling systems consume and evaporate millions of gallons of potable water every single day. During peak heat months, this massive draw strains public utility systems and threatens to severely deplete regional groundwater tables and local aquifers.
Strain on the Electrical Grid: These facilities draw an immense, constant amount of power. This exponential surge in energy demand is driving up monthly utility bills for everyday residents and forcing aging, fossil-fuel power plants to stay online longer—further polluting our regional air and water.
ZERO Community Benefit: These "hyperscale" facilities take up massive plots of land and gobble up immense public resources, yet they create virtually no permanent local jobs once construction is complete. The community shoulders 100% of the environmental risk and rising costs, while big tech corporations pocket the profits.
Our Demands to Elected Officials and Regulators:
We, the undersigned residents, community advocates, and members of the scientific and environmental communities, demand that our representatives immediately hit the brakes and enforce the following protections:
* An Immediate Moratorium: Pause all pending and future data center zoning approvals, building permits, and water line connections.
* Mandatory Water Transparency: Force all existing and prospective data center developers to publicly disclose their exact, un-anonymized monthly water consumption and projected 5-year resource requirements. We cannot manage what Big Tech refuses to measure.
* Transition to Closed-Loop Technology: Prohibit the use of standard evaporative "open-loop" cooling methods that waste clean drinking water. Mandate that any data center operating in our region utilize 100% waterless air-cooling or closed-loop liquid systems.
* Protect Groundwater Basins: Permanently ban the construction of any data center near vulnerable or overdrafted groundwater basins, public watersheds, or agricultural land.
Sign this petition to tell our local leaders to prioritize the community over data centers, protect our water grid, and halt this unchecked expansion before it's too late!
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The Issue
Our water is a fundamental human right and a shared public resource—not a corporate coolant for Big Tech!
We are calling on our local city councils, county zoning boards, and state environmental protection agencies to enact an IMMEDIATE moratorium on the approval, construction, and expansion of hyperscale data centers until a comprehensive, independent hydrological and grid-stability impact study is completed.
The rapid, unregulated growth of data centers—accelerated by the massive boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure—presents a direct, critical threat to our public resources, public health, and basic utilities.
The Crisis: Threat to Our Water and Power
Massive Water Consumption: Standard data center cooling systems consume and evaporate millions of gallons of potable water every single day. During peak heat months, this massive draw strains public utility systems and threatens to severely deplete regional groundwater tables and local aquifers.
Strain on the Electrical Grid: These facilities draw an immense, constant amount of power. This exponential surge in energy demand is driving up monthly utility bills for everyday residents and forcing aging, fossil-fuel power plants to stay online longer—further polluting our regional air and water.
ZERO Community Benefit: These "hyperscale" facilities take up massive plots of land and gobble up immense public resources, yet they create virtually no permanent local jobs once construction is complete. The community shoulders 100% of the environmental risk and rising costs, while big tech corporations pocket the profits.
Our Demands to Elected Officials and Regulators:
We, the undersigned residents, community advocates, and members of the scientific and environmental communities, demand that our representatives immediately hit the brakes and enforce the following protections:
* An Immediate Moratorium: Pause all pending and future data center zoning approvals, building permits, and water line connections.
* Mandatory Water Transparency: Force all existing and prospective data center developers to publicly disclose their exact, un-anonymized monthly water consumption and projected 5-year resource requirements. We cannot manage what Big Tech refuses to measure.
* Transition to Closed-Loop Technology: Prohibit the use of standard evaporative "open-loop" cooling methods that waste clean drinking water. Mandate that any data center operating in our region utilize 100% waterless air-cooling or closed-loop liquid systems.
* Protect Groundwater Basins: Permanently ban the construction of any data center near vulnerable or overdrafted groundwater basins, public watersheds, or agricultural land.
Sign this petition to tell our local leaders to prioritize the community over data centers, protect our water grid, and halt this unchecked expansion before it's too late!
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Petition created on May 25, 2026