Jeff Meucci
89:00 - 90:00
“I was very concerned by the presentation that was there because it's nothing like a 2-megawatt presentation or megawatt data center that they're talking here at Ocean Beauty. They're talking about either a 5, a 10, 12, or 15-megawatt data center”
- Speaker
- Jeff Meucci
- Timestamp
- 89:00 – 90:00
- Transcript
- Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- November 3, 2026
From the transcript
You know, the public hearing process should be on kind of a finalized document that we're working on, and my intent to have this as an amendment would make it to the second reading so that we would talk about data centers in general. You know, when I listened into that SEPA board meeting last week, I was very concerned by the presentation that was there because it's nothing like a 2-megawatt presentation or megawatt data center that they're talking here at Ocean Beauty. They're talking about either a 5, a 10, 12, or 15-megawatt data center somewhere within the grid here, whether it's Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan. And I, I think The community needs to know about that, that this presentation is being given to the SEPA board for them to make a decision on. You know, and I finally did some research into who was involved with this data center, and if you look at the Missoula, Montana data center newspaper article that talks about how a community got behind a small data center originally, and then the small data center turned into a bigger data center, then it turned into a bigger data center, and the people that were originally in support of it didn't want it because it was bigger than they wanted.
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