Kowalko's great idea: why can't the new data center at UD's STAR campus run off of Bloom Boxes? (Bloom website video: eBay Data Center powered by Bloom Energy)
Catch Allan Loudell's interview with John Kowalko yesterday ~ WDEL PODCAST: Delaware's News at Noon State Rep. John Kowalko on a proposed power plant at Newark's former auto plant (8/2)
Kowalko notes that proposed industrial-sized power plant concerns center around the environment and quality of life for residents living near the STAR campus. Loudell wonders if the plant will "peddle power on the side".
Kowalko wants public hearings BEFORE any contract ink has dried and said he was informed that UD President Harker will be answering his letter to the University Trustees.
There are serious questions about the zoning of the property regardless of the City Solicitor Bruce Herron's opinion that the plant is incidental and subordinate and can bypass City Council altogether ~
[Amy] Roe highlighted the decision by city staff that electrical generation at the site would not require council approval because it falls within the categories of what’s permitted under city code. Power generation would be “incidental and subordinate” to the purpose and use of the main building, Solicitor Bruce Herron wrote in a July 10 memo to the mayor and council.
“To characterize this power plant as a minor consequence without intention or calculation is a gross misrepresentation of the facts,” said Roe, who attended the meeting with her father, also a Newark resident. “There is nothing subordinate about the power plant. Instead, after all reading of the information provided to me in my [records] request, the Data Center s subordinate to the power plant.”Plus, Kavips writes about gas turbine noise pollution ~ What Newark Must Expect In Their Future
Facebook Plant Addresses Noise Compliants - As you may have heard, a new Data Center with the exact same generators is slated to be built next to Bloom Energy on the tarmac of what used to be the Chrysler Plant. As you heard (or should have in the above videos_, the noise you heard was from 5 miles away. This map shows a radius of 5 miles from the site in Newark.And the Facebook Data Center uses gas turbines for back up only!
Also see:
Gas Turbine Failure
Ever Wonder What A Data Center Sounds Like?
DataCenter Noise
Data Center Noise
Shouting At The Data Center
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