Data centers

Argued generative AI data centers are environmentally and socially destructive and that Flock feeds the same networks — called the moratorium an open-and-shut case.

Northside resident who helped during the sweep, suggesting a donor-funded comprehensive shelter like South Bend's Center for the Homeless and backing the data center moratorium.

Urges a one-to-three-year data center moratorium to protect water and rates, supports restoring call-in comments, and asks for city representation on the county parks commission given a potential Asylum Lake sale.

Supports a permanent moratorium on AI data centers, citing grid cost spikes and health effects, and questions the legality of Flock data use.

Thanks officials for the Democracy Defenders event, asks where the Flock contract stands and when it expires, and supports the data center moratorium.

With Get the Flock Out of Kalamazoo, says the last Flock contract was priced $100 under the threshold requiring a commission vote, and supports the data center moratorium; announces an August 17 rally.

Eight and a half years asking for storm drain fixes on the Southside; also criticizes road diets, high rents, shootings, and opposes a data center; wants call-in comments restored.

Reports people being cleared out of Arcadia during a meal service; supports a one-year data center moratorium.

A 4th District congressional candidate describes data center proposals across the county and their threats to water, air, farmland, and tax revenue; asks the commission to listen to residents.

Distinguished hyperscale from interface data centers and tied opposition to AI, mass surveillance, and ICE funding concerns.

A software engineer who thinks AI is a speculative bubble with ethical problems, but said the community could physically handle an inference data center using air cooling.

Thanked the mayor for attending the It's a TRAP event, promoted the July 1 Democracy Defenders Roadshow, and asked the Commission to view any data center proposal through an environmental racism lens.

Argued regulatory review is the Commission's responsibility, not a dodge, and described firsthand the homelessness crisis he sees feeding people downtown while land bank lots sit vacant.