HomeMy WebLinkAbout2026-09-01 Donna Reid Support TestimonyFrom: Donna Reid
To: Planning WPC Testimony
Subject: Bill 170
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 2:34:31 PM
My name is Donna and I live in Mountain View. I am writing in strong support of Bill 170 and asking the
Windward Planning Commission to recommend one additional strengthening change before seeing it back to the
County Council.
The Original Bill 170 language uses subjective phrases like “ industrial-scale operation” and “beyond that typically
accessory or incidental to office, commercial, or public institutional uses that a well-resourced developer’s attorney
can argue around. The definition below replaces that subjectivity with objective physical criteria and a clear 20
megawatt threshold that cannnot be disputed. The specific language I am asking the commission to recommend:
Hyperscale data center means any facility or campus of facilities whose primary purpose is the housing, operation,
or co-location of computer servers, networking equipment, and associated cooling, power, and support
infrastructure, including but not limited to servers network equipment and appliances, telecommunications
equipment, data storage systems, systems for monitoring and managing infrastructure performance, environmental
controls, fire protection systems, security systems, electronic substations, generators and redundant power supplies;
and which requires or is designed to require 20 megawatts or more of electrical capacity at full build-out. This
definition includes a single facility and any campus of multiple facilities on contiguous or adjacent parcels under
common ownership or control whose combined electrical demand meets or exceeds 20 megawatts. This term
includes facilities commonly described as large-scale, hyper scale, neocloud, and artificial intelligence data centers
and colocation campuses. This term does not include telecommunications facilities regulated under Section 25-4-12,
hospital or government data systems, university educational and research facilities, or business offices in which
servers are incidental to the primary use.”
This is important to me because the resources of the Hawaiian Islands are for everyone, not just corporations that are
proving time and time again that they would rather suck us dry for profit then care about anyone else other than
themselves. I’m disgusted by what they are doing all over our country!
Donna Reid