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From: Noelle Lindenmann
To: Planning LPC Testimony
Subject: Bill 170 testimony (LPC agenda item 6)
Date: Monday, October 12, 2026 3:18:24 PM
Aloha Leeward Planning Commission:
I'm writing testimony again on Bill 170, and I would like to strongly urge you to
recommend Bill 170 favorably.
I would also like to request that you recommend a strengthened definition of "Data
Center." It would be good to have a stronger definition that is built on actual
equipment and resource usage.
Our Island doesn't need to take a "wait and see" approach. We can be on the forefront
of this issue, so that we can save our water and resources for those who live on island
and need water and electricity here.
The Sierra Club of Hawai'i Island has very concrete proposed language in their
testimony they submitted on 9/22/26:
“Data center” means a physical asset used for the large-scale operation of computer
systems and associated equipment and which utilizes graphic processing units requiring
supporting infrastructure beyond that typically accessory or incidental to office,
commercial, or public and private institutional uses. This term 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 5 megawatts.
This term does not include data processing facilities as defined in Section 25-1-5, hospital
or government data systems, and university computing educational and/or research
facilities, and those utilizing artificial intelligence as a support to information systems and
business offices in which servers are incidental to the primary use.
If we strengthen the definition, versus using subjective language, we are able to
protect our resources and community.
Mahalo for your service and time.
Noelle Lindenmann,
Kailua-Kona
Noelle Lindenmann (she/her/hers)
e. noelle.royer@gmail.com // tallgirl@uw.edu
p: 310.729.6627