This is a meeting of the Data Center

Work

Group for the Loudon County Heritage Commission.

And the date is November 2nd and present are our dear friend and colleague.

And then Derek Clark and myself, Bob Pollard.

I thought, you know, I sent the earlier an email, and I thought I think particularly some of this stuff you've seen and done before.

But

I think Poo Jimmy maybe has not.

I think she may not have been around at that time.

Doesn't hurt to review it again.

So I talked to uh Gene Goland on the phone about this, and I asked him directly.

I said, Well, what exactly do you want our group to do?

Okay.

Because I mean we can do everything.

What is the

isn't that

a good point?

That is a good point.

What is it?

And I'd sort of, I was met with him many times, and I always, I mean, he was coming back originally to well, tell me specific cases where there is a data center that's going to directly impact um uh you know historic resources or natural resources.

And I said, Well, you know, oh, there you are, good, just in time.

I'm sorry.

So we're I'm just gonna give a review of some of the basic information that uh I assembled a couple years ago about talking about uh Gene Glenn said, well, and when I talked to him this last week, he said, Well, I really want to know what's the overall impact, potential or existing of data centers on our natural and historic resources.

Okay,

that's a fair question.

Good question.

And I think before your time for you, maybe when did you start on the Hungary's Commission?

I can't recall.

I uh so I have now had I completed a year yet.

I think it was late

last year, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was around the same time.

So maybe not a year four.

Okay, so this is from two years ago.

There was a big controversy about the next era power lines, which I will come back to because they're back.

But anyway, um, in that there was a group, and it was a very spontaneous group that sprung up, starting in Waterford because they were planning to cut right through Waterford, right over they were right over, you know, historic, really sacred ground, you might say.

And anyway, um, so we gave presentations, and to our surprise, it picked up and we ended up having over 200 people with some several um supervisors and many other people showed up at a high school.

We just PEC and was the Loudoun transmission line allowance.

Uh so anyway, I'm gonna jump right into this.

I love that picture though.

Yeah, the pictures are from our friend Jim Hannah who's a good photographer.

A lot of pictures uh in the air.

Um, but any case, that's what you'll be seeing a lot of.

So this is um the actual um what I presented.

And that's why I can get my glasses on.

I'll give you some of this.

Um I sent you all these documents, so you'll have

them.

And okay, here we go.

All right.

Anyway, uh so what I'm gonna do here is focus on historical and environmental resource resources and why their protection is so important to sustaining rural heritage, especially.

So, and that's what altogether these things I call loudness heritage ecosystem.

So we can go ahead.

I'll just I'm gonna skip ahead to slide two, please.

Number one cemeteries.

This is just a this is not the full number.

There's a lot of private homes that have them as well.

Uh but of the ones that are at least registered, over 200 private and public cemeteries in you know, under Yemena Eminent Domain, next year I could theoretically bulldoze cemeteries.

Usually the bodies are are put somewhere else.

But any case, um that is uh that would destroy a critical archaeological and historic resource.