HomeMy WebLinkAbout2026-09-20 Angela Leslee Support
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From: Angela Leslee
To: Planning LPC Testimony
Subject: NO DATA CENTERS IN HAWAII
Date: Sunday, September 20, 2026 5:54:24 PM
My name is Angela Leslee and I live in Kealakekua. I am writing in support of Bill 170
and asking the Leeward Planning Commission to recommend additional
strengthening changes before sending 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."
Those phrases don't set a clear line, and a well-resourced developer's attorney can
argue around them either way. I'm asking the Commission to recommend replacing
that subjective language with an objective, enforceable standard: a specific electrical-
demand threshold, measured in megawatts, that applies to a single facility and to any
campus of multiple facilities built under common ownership or control, so a developer
can't dodge the rule by splitting one large project into several smaller buildings.
I have heard nightmare testimony from people who live near current data centers
that the noise is intolerable. These centers use water that is available for our
residents, the amount they use will very likely cause a shortage of water on the
island(s) and we all know who will pay the cost of the added utilities used by
these energy guzzling centers.
Please, no data centers on Hawai'i Island or any of the Hawaiian islands.
Our island's closed water system, fossil-fuel-dependent grid, and already strained
infrastructure cannot support data centers. Please recommend the strongest possible
version of this bill to the County Council.
Mahalo,
Angela Leslee
Kealakekua, HI 96750
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