LOCAL: What was a hypothetical issue in Ventura – the construction of a data center – is now a real possibility!
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!: Sept. 15: TWO NEW LOCAL ACTIONS
9:00 am: Global Stack‘s CEO & President are presenting their project to the Fair Board!
- VENTURA COUNTY FAIR BOARD: Meeting at 9:00 am at Santa Rosa Hall at the Fairgrounds. For agenda and more information, visit venturacountyfair.org/meeting-notices/
- (VCreporter) “Ventura County Fairgrounds officials have scheduled a Sept. 15 discussion and possible action on a controversial proposal by a company called Global Stack USA, which is hoping to build what it is calling a “distributed resilience network.
The Orange County-based company has proposed infrastructure at about 70 state-owned fairgrounds across California including parking garages, helicopter landing pads and “edge computers” as part of a statewide emergency response network.” - WRITE THE FAIR BOARD: Write to info@venturacountyfair.org. Your communication will be inserted into the Board packet for next meeting. Try to get it in by Monday, noon.
- Check out this ferocious example letter here!
5:00 pm: Ventura City Council is presenting letter for Fair Board.
- VENTURA CITY COUNCIL MEETING: Consent Item #6: Proposed Correspondence Expressing Concerns over a Potential Data Center Project at the Ventura County Fairgrounds.
City Manager Bill Ayub will present the letter expressing concerns over a potential Data Center Project and the staff recommendation to authorize the Mayor to send it to the Ventura County Fairgrounds CEO.
(Read the Staff Report and Letter here.)
This is all very nice, but we need commenters to ask them to do more! Like ban data centers completely within the city of Ventura.
More actions below!
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