The comment that Heritage Hunt will not be impacted by data centers noise is not accurate. In Chandler AZ citizens could hear noise from CyrusOne and other data centers up to a mile away. and the noise was not able to be successfully mitigated. Citizens in Great Oak in Manassas have data center noise at over 800 feet and and that noise has not been successfully mitigated to date.
Tree buffers don't work for either noise or hiding data centers during the half the year they have no leaves. And, even when they do have leaves, the noise buffering effect is modest.
So don't get fooled by developer's plans showing trees - they may not end up looking as good as they look in the sketches, they may end up being damaged and replaced by tiny saplings, they will be bare half the year, and they are not great at buffering noise even when the leaves are there.
The bottom line is that if the PW Digital Gateway CPA data centers on Pageland Lane are a good idea now, they will still be a good idea in 2024. Why the Rush? Let's wait until Gainesville has a voting representative. Let's see how the first of these mega-campuses (Gainesville Crossing) looks before we zone 90 more on Pageland. Let's wait to see how much power and how many transmission lines are needed for the ones that have already been zoned. Let's take the time to do the watershed study.
This Board of County Supervisors needs to hit the STOP button. Gainesville/Haymarket/Bristow have already been too heavily burdened from the frenzied data center approvals of the past 12 months.
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