Both my husband and I are in the Red Bud District and we strongly oppose data centers and the significant risk to the health and wellbeing they pose to the most vulnerable of our population. Our children. At the recent meeting the community put together with experts including industrial hygienists, geologist, and an expert in economics it was made all too clear why DCs are not a fit for our community. Those in leadership who suggest otherwise are not being transparent with our community and should be held accountable for any harm that comes to our children and community as a result. The tonal noise these centers put out has been shown through studies to create the same effects and trauma in the brain as what prisoners of war experience. Experts all over the nation are beginning to speak out and sound the alarm with this information and similar as it comes out. It is beyond clear the impacts to our health and wellbeing make those a hard no for our area. Saying yes to data centers is a vote against Frederick County and everything we stand for.
My name is Robin Lynch and I am a resident of Opequon District. At a recent meeting, John Jewel presented a case for allowing construction of Data Centers based on the County creating "guardrails" to protect the public from the noise, air pollution, excessive water use, etc. The problem with that argument is, of course, that the County doesn't have anyone (or any infrastructure) competent to enforce any rules they institute for such a technologically advanced business. How would the County handle complaints and how much would it cost the County to enforce their rules? It seems to me that it would require not only someone who understood Data Centers but also a legal team to be prepared for action if required. This cost would presumably be borne by the residents of Frederick County. I do not feel reassured that any rules set by the County would be strictly followed, based on what we hear from other areas that have Data Centers.
My name is Wendy Werner. I’m a resident of Winchester City. Even though I am not a county resident, data centers will impact me as well as Frederick County residents. Our community is being presented with proposal after proposal asking Winchester and Frederick County to sacrifice long term stability for quick cash. We are being flooded with bad ideas: a casino, data centers, and the continuation of a contract to detain children for ICE. We are being asked to trade our future for short term revenue.
I lived in West Virginia for more than 30 years. I watched a state with extraordinary natural beauty and wonderful, trusting people get told—over and over—that the next industry would finally bring prosperity: chemical plants, mountain top removal, out of state waste, casinos, and the nail in the coffin-fracking. Instead, it brought pollution, sickness, and the collapse of sustainable industries and communities. It made the state poorer, and sicker not richer or better off.
Data centers consume staggering amounts of electricity and water while producing very few permanent jobs. Communities across the country are rejecting them because they strain infrastructure and undermine the environment and sustainability goals.
Casinos, data centers, and ICE detention all share the same DNA: high resource use, low community benefit, and long term harm.
Winchester/Frederick County deserves better than industries that drain our resources, damage our environment, and compromise our values. We deserve investments that strengthen families, protect our natural assets, and build a resilient local economy.
The real question before us is simple: What kind of community are we choosing to become?
I live in the Opequon District and I oppose any data centers being built in Frederick County. So many states and counties have found out the hard way how detrimental these data centers are to people’s health. Let us learn from their mistakes!
There are so many new houses, townhouses and apartments being built in our area right now and quite frankly I don’t know how Frederick County will be able to supply water to all of it’s residents much less a data center!
Please vote NO to any and all data centers.
I’m a Red Bud resident writing to oppose the data centers in Frederick County. I urge the board to reject any of the applications and requests allowing these generators to pollute our air and their operations to compromise our limited water supply, especially as we are in a drought. Thank you.
I am writing to respectfully request that you and the Planning Commissioners consider the recent injunction filed against the county-approved Woodside Substation. As you deliberate tomorrow regarding the rezoning of the property for the Virginia Technology Park, please take into account the possibility that the Woodside Substation may not be permitted on Lot 24 of Joline Drive. I ask that you share this information with the other members of the Planning Commission so that they may fully consider the impact of the injunction in their decision-making process.
I'm a Red Bud resident who opposes the data center projects. I'm unable to be at the meeting due to chronic illness -- because I'm ALREADY affected by EMF/noise and the excessive toxic load in our air, water, and food supply. About 40% of the American population is chronically ill; we don't need to be ADDING to this load. The expansion of these data centers is happening at an awfully rapid pace, in a manner that seems awfully coordinated, under cover of far too much secrecy (e.g. WHO is buying up our land?) and with far too little care and caution exercised before jumping into irreversible decisions.
Furthermore, the blatant ongoing disregard for what the PEOPLE want is concerning. YOU serve US. But y'all seem more concerned with politics than with what's good for the people.
I would like to know, for instance, why you want to trample on my fundamental liberty trights and bar me from owning three or four chickens, which would have little impact on anyone other than my own household, but be happy for land the same areas to be bought up by the many-acres and used in ways that will compromise the water supply, the electrical grid, the long-term agricultural potential, the peace, and possibly the health of EVERYONE in the area. Sounds more like tyranny than governance to me.
I am a Stonewall resident who opposes the data centers reasoning. Not only am I concerned about our environment and water, as a health practitioner I am deeply concerned about the potential health implications of this technology. We have limited data on the effects on our health but what we DO know is the noise, vibration and EMF output negatively impacts humans. We do not have long term evidence to say this is safe. Protect our residents, saying no to data centers in Frederick County!
Please do not allow Data Centers in Frederick County. Research has shown them to be detrimental to communities and people in our community do not want them.
Both my husband and I are in the Red Bud District and we strongly oppose data centers and the significant risk to the health and wellbeing they pose to the most vulnerable of our population. Our children. At the recent meeting the community put together with experts including industrial hygienists, geologist, and an expert in economics it was made all too clear why DCs are not a fit for our community. Those in leadership who suggest otherwise are not being transparent with our community and should be held accountable for any harm that comes to our children and community as a result. The tonal noise these centers put out has been shown through studies to create the same effects and trauma in the brain as what prisoners of war experience. Experts all over the nation are beginning to speak out and sound the alarm with this information and similar as it comes out. It is beyond clear the impacts to our health and wellbeing make those a hard no for our area. Saying yes to data centers is a vote against Frederick County and everything we stand for.
My name is Robin Lynch and I am a resident of Opequon District. At a recent meeting, John Jewel presented a case for allowing construction of Data Centers based on the County creating "guardrails" to protect the public from the noise, air pollution, excessive water use, etc. The problem with that argument is, of course, that the County doesn't have anyone (or any infrastructure) competent to enforce any rules they institute for such a technologically advanced business. How would the County handle complaints and how much would it cost the County to enforce their rules? It seems to me that it would require not only someone who understood Data Centers but also a legal team to be prepared for action if required. This cost would presumably be borne by the residents of Frederick County. I do not feel reassured that any rules set by the County would be strictly followed, based on what we hear from other areas that have Data Centers.
My name is Wendy Werner. I’m a resident of Winchester City. Even though I am not a county resident, data centers will impact me as well as Frederick County residents. Our community is being presented with proposal after proposal asking Winchester and Frederick County to sacrifice long term stability for quick cash. We are being flooded with bad ideas: a casino, data centers, and the continuation of a contract to detain children for ICE. We are being asked to trade our future for short term revenue.
I lived in West Virginia for more than 30 years. I watched a state with extraordinary natural beauty and wonderful, trusting people get told—over and over—that the next industry would finally bring prosperity: chemical plants, mountain top removal, out of state waste, casinos, and the nail in the coffin-fracking. Instead, it brought pollution, sickness, and the collapse of sustainable industries and communities. It made the state poorer, and sicker not richer or better off.
Data centers consume staggering amounts of electricity and water while producing very few permanent jobs. Communities across the country are rejecting them because they strain infrastructure and undermine the environment and sustainability goals.
Casinos, data centers, and ICE detention all share the same DNA: high resource use, low community benefit, and long term harm.
Winchester/Frederick County deserves better than industries that drain our resources, damage our environment, and compromise our values. We deserve investments that strengthen families, protect our natural assets, and build a resilient local economy.
The real question before us is simple: What kind of community are we choosing to become?
I live in the Opequon District and I oppose any data centers being built in Frederick County. So many states and counties have found out the hard way how detrimental these data centers are to people’s health. Let us learn from their mistakes!
There are so many new houses, townhouses and apartments being built in our area right now and quite frankly I don’t know how Frederick County will be able to supply water to all of it’s residents much less a data center!
Please vote NO to any and all data centers.
I’m a Red Bud resident writing to oppose the data centers in Frederick County. I urge the board to reject any of the applications and requests allowing these generators to pollute our air and their operations to compromise our limited water supply, especially as we are in a drought. Thank you.
I am writing to respectfully request that you and the Planning Commissioners consider the recent injunction filed against the county-approved Woodside Substation. As you deliberate tomorrow regarding the rezoning of the property for the Virginia Technology Park, please take into account the possibility that the Woodside Substation may not be permitted on Lot 24 of Joline Drive. I ask that you share this information with the other members of the Planning Commission so that they may fully consider the impact of the injunction in their decision-making process.
I'm a Red Bud resident who opposes the data center projects. I'm unable to be at the meeting due to chronic illness -- because I'm ALREADY affected by EMF/noise and the excessive toxic load in our air, water, and food supply. About 40% of the American population is chronically ill; we don't need to be ADDING to this load. The expansion of these data centers is happening at an awfully rapid pace, in a manner that seems awfully coordinated, under cover of far too much secrecy (e.g. WHO is buying up our land?) and with far too little care and caution exercised before jumping into irreversible decisions.
Furthermore, the blatant ongoing disregard for what the PEOPLE want is concerning. YOU serve US. But y'all seem more concerned with politics than with what's good for the people.
I would like to know, for instance, why you want to trample on my fundamental liberty trights and bar me from owning three or four chickens, which would have little impact on anyone other than my own household, but be happy for land the same areas to be bought up by the many-acres and used in ways that will compromise the water supply, the electrical grid, the long-term agricultural potential, the peace, and possibly the health of EVERYONE in the area. Sounds more like tyranny than governance to me.
I am a Stonewall resident who opposes the data centers reasoning. Not only am I concerned about our environment and water, as a health practitioner I am deeply concerned about the potential health implications of this technology. We have limited data on the effects on our health but what we DO know is the noise, vibration and EMF output negatively impacts humans. We do not have long term evidence to say this is safe. Protect our residents, saying no to data centers in Frederick County!
Please do not allow Data Centers in Frederick County. Research has shown them to be detrimental to communities and people in our community do not want them.