Anti?
Anti? Not really.
We're pro-datacenter. We're pro-AI. We're pro-the-thing-that-rendered-this-page-for-you-in-real-time. We just don't want to set the swamp on fire to build it.
Pro-Tech
Pro-AI
Pro-Build
Anti-Stupid
Anti-Greed
The premise
We need the compute. Obviously.
Read this page on a screen. The site you're on was assembled, in part, by AI sitting on top of hyperscale infrastructure. We're not pretending that genie goes back in the bottle. We don't want it to.
AI is a generational productivity multiplier. It will run on datacenters. Datacenters will get built. The honest question is not whether — it's where, at whose expense, and what gets traded for it. That's the only question this campaign is asking.
If you came here expecting a tree-hugger pamphlet, you can close the tab. If you came here expecting the data, the receipts, and a fight over siting policy — pull up a chair.
What we want
Build them. Just don't build them in the places that catch fire and store the drinking water.
There are sites for this. The cheapest land for the developer is rarely the cheapest land for the county.
Where datacenters belong
- Industrial corridors with grid capacity already built
- Brownfields and retired coal/gas sites with substations in place
- Counties with surplus reclaimed water for cooling
- Sites where waste heat can be sold to a district loop
- Locations where peak load matches existing grid headroom
- Communities that opted in with a project labor agreement
vs.
Where they keep getting proposed
- Peat wetlands and freshwater aquifer recharge zones
- Wildfire corridors with diesel backup generators
- Sole-source drinking water basins
- Flood-prone parcels rezoned the week of the bond vote
- School-adjacent rural residential bought at agricultural rates
- Counties where the IRP can't deliver the load — and never could
"Build the plant. Don't burn down the place where we live, play, and enjoy life to do it. That's the whole ask."
The receipt
The developer of this site pays the bill that's coming for you.
California-tier residential electric. Up roughly 50% in four years. Now compound that for five more under the current build pipeline.
Hyperscale datacenter operators negotiate special industrial tariffs. The transmission and generation upgrades to deliver their loads cost billions. Those billions are not absorbed by the trillion-dollar tenant — they show up on residential ratepayer bills, in the form of small monthly surcharges that, summed across millions of homes, finance the buildout.
This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's how state utility commissions have been quietly approving it. Read your last twelve months of bills. Add the line items that say "transmission rider," "capacity adjustment," "generation reliability." Then call your PSC and ask which percentage of that funds new datacenter interconnects.
+50% / 4yr
Residential rate increase
CA average. Other states catching up fast.
~3–5×
Industrial vs residential rate gap
Datacenters pay the lower one. You pay the upgrade.
5+yrs
Until you feel it in GA
If the current rate of build proposals holds.
If you turn your home into a desert chasing the cheapest industrial parcel, you also import the desert's electric bill.
What we ARE against
Two things. That's the list.
Everything else, we'll work with you on. Bring data, bring counterargument, bring a better site — we'll move.
01 / Anti
Stupidity.
Putting the heat-and-water plant on the parcel that catches fire and stores the drinking water. Mitigation banking miles away as a real substitute for an irreplaceable peat wetland. Approving a 30-year asset on a 6-month review cycle. Calling a Class V injection well a "stormwater management solution."
Stupidity is when the math is right there in the application and nobody runs it.
02 / Anti
Greed.
Negotiating industrial-rate electricity for the world's most profitable companies and putting the transmission cost on the grocery clerk's bill. Calling community impact a "stakeholder concern" on the prospectus. Buying agricultural land at agricultural rates and rezoning industrial the week of closing.
Greed is when the spreadsheet works only because the externality is somebody else's grandkid.
Why the avatars
Yes, it's propaganda. That's the point.
We built brand characters and a coastal-documentary look so neighbors can find each other in a noisy timeline. The other side does the exact same thing. They just call it "stakeholder engagement" and pay a DC firm $400k for the deck.
This is coalition marketing 101. It is not rocket surgery. Pick a banner. Make it recognizable. Make it shareable. Make it easier to forward than to argue with. Repeat until your neighbors who don't normally show up to county meetings show up to the county meeting.
The numbers on this site are cited. The arguments are ours. The avatars are art that helps you remember the arguments. Use them. Make your own. Win the comment thread. Win the hearing.
If we're wrong
Show us. Loudly. With receipts.
Public correction is how trust gets built. If a number on this site is off, send the source. If a claim is wrong, send the better claim. We'll update the page and credit you on it.
We will not pretend to be neutral. We are not. We've stated the position. The position is "build the thing, just not in the swamp, and don't put the bill on the residential ratepayer." If you disagree, that's a real disagreement, and a real disagreement deserves a real receipt.
Bring the permit number. Bring the IRP page. Bring the county zoning vote. Bring the engineering study you say we're missing. We will read it. We will respond on the page. That's how this works.
If you've just got "someone told me" or vibes — we have the mute button, and we are not afraid to use it. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Pro-tech. Pro-AI. Pro-build.
Anti-stupid. Anti-greedy.
Anti-burning-down-the-place-we-live.