Evidence Is Mounting That The Proposed UD Campus Power Plant Intends To Sell Electricity Far Beyond A Data Center Usage

Dr. Amy Roe's latest Freedom of Information Act request about The Data Centers LLC's plans for a power plant in Newark produced this map, from March 2013, which shows how existing and future power lines would be run through the STAR Campus.

Plus a letter today ~ Data center doesn’t need the power plant

In the ongoing debate con­cerning the STAR campus data center and power plant, it is es­sential to keep in mind that con­struction and use of the data cen­ter does not require construc­tion of the power plant. Accord­ing to University of Delaware Professor Willet Kempton, a more reliable source of power – namely existing high-voltage power lines – already exist at the STAR campus. The majority of the benefits of construction jobs, and long-term data center jobs, can be gained by only building the data center and po­wering it by existing high-volt­age lines. The fossil-fuel-burn­ing power plant is an ugly, un­necessary wart on an otherwise beautiful, job-creating plan of building the data center solo.

Yong Peng

Newark 

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