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El Paso.

EPaso. Good morning, El Paso. Jud here. Wednesday morning coffee chairs here. I'm still trying to wake up here, but I've got got some things that I'd like to say in terms of the data centers, continuing battle that we have with the city.

Anyway, congratulations. Yesterday was a win. It was a small win, but it's a win nonetheless, and it's just one step in the right direction. A lot of you sacrificed your time, you put your talent and your courage out there, and thank you all for following these organizations that are mobilizing you guys. You know, Project Amen, Sran Fer, 915 and Jonathan Zan.

But what I' like to talk about this morning is just some of the ambiguity as to what's going on here. This thing that everybody signed off on it in City Council it was unanimous about, it's a very oblique and abstract kind of thing here. It doesn't say I mean, what was to stop them from saying, we will not allow to another data center in Elcasto. We will absolutely say no.

Instead, they're giving us language, like, wee will not pursue or incentivize them. In other words, they're kind of leaving the bomb in the court of Meta and these other people that come to us looking to put their data centers, okay? That's problematic for me.

And Chris Canales, he's one of the original signers of this contract when Meta first came to El Paso and they basically had, according to him, because he did a mulpaosa about two months ago where he was saying that he was really sorry about it and that he had no idea that it was going to morph into a $1 billion data center, water sucking, air polluting metal, and then that has become 10 times bigger since.

So his thing right now is he's just trying to cover his ass, you know. I think he was one of the original people that saw the ship sl coming up. And so now he's basically trying to kind of tamp it down.

And what happened at city council was a good thing, but at the same time, I think it was just a token gesture, political gesture that is designed to kind of pacify all of us angry people, all of you that showed up yesterday, just trying to say, like, hey, guys, let's just settle down, we're going to take care of you.

Don't believe it for a second.

Everybody's been saying, "Don't take your foot off the gas, Continue showing up to these meetings, continue sending emails out to them and fighting them, okay?

Now, another thing that Chris Kalales said that really has me wondering is I saw this on television, or no, actually on Instagram, where he was quoted as saying like, oh, you know, the tax revenue is going to be massive, and we're just going to be get tons and tons of money from these things. And so number one, they gave away 85.

Good morning, El Paso Judd here. Wednesday morning, coffee, cheers. So I'm going to find part two now.orn El Paso Jud here. This is part two. Okay. continuing with part two.

So, yes, Chris Canales talked about these massive tax incentives, but yet, they gave away 85% of tax revenvenue to these investors over 35 years. So I'm not sure what he's talking about there.

What I think he's talking about is when we get some of these big mega companiesies wanting to place data centers, data centers here in El Paso, if they want to pay their full share of the taxes, at that point, that's when we're going to get massive tax revenue from them.

So, like I said, I believe they're leaving the door open for future data centers. They've not said they're not going to allow data centers anymore above and beyond the three or four that are already popping up here, which need to go and need to have the contracts broken.

They're literally leaving the door open for more data centers to come here, as long as they're willing to pay their full share of taxs. They're not going to incentivize them, they're not going to pursue them, but it can be flipped the other way around.

So I believe that they're basically using semantics to try to kind of catch us off guard and still allow these data center companies to come over and basically continue invading El Paso and compromising our health and our resources and everything else.

So I have a big, huge problem with that, and I think we all need to really pay close attention to what they're doing. It's just really easy to go unanimous with this vote as long as it allows them to continue to get these people to come in.

So let's continue putting pressure on them as much as we can. I know there's a lot of people there that can't go to City Hall. There's a lot of people that can't be involved in protests.

So, yeah, hit them with those emails, regularly, every week. Keep sending them these, like, examples of what's going on in other cities and what is happening to other city councils and mayors, you know, because of the data centers that they're allowing.

That is political malpractice, that is public service, negligence, and they need to lose their jobs as they continue to pursue not pursue them, but allow them.

We need to go back in retrospect and cut those contracts out, it can be done. We'll talk about that some more.

But yeah, don't believe them when they say, like, well, aren't our city attorneys can't do it. They're not smart enough, or, you know, they just basically got hoodwinked by these companies and there's no outs, there's no fine trend, you know..

Anyway, guys, talk more with you guys later. Fight a good fight. Love you guys. Bye.

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And the next story is from Fort Worth.

Fort Worth residents are mobilizing against an increasing number of B center proposals in the region. They hope to follow the lead of Hill County, which approved a one year moratorium on B Center construction and unincorporated areas areas earlier this month.

There are roughly 400 data centers active or planned in Texas, and several developments are planned around Fort Worth, including a 450 acre, $1 billion billion development by Black Mountain. Presidents are raising concerns about these centers requiring huge amounts of water, creating high electricity demands, and creating noise and light pollution.

An online petition organized by 817 gatr has garnered over 13,000 letters demanding a moratorium, which would pause all construction on data centers in the area. The group is also calling on residents to speak out of Fort Worth City Council meeting on June 9th.

Seven council members, along with Fort Worth Mayor Madty Parker, have come under scrutiny following reports they took the thousands of dollars in campaign donations from Black Mountain, influencing their decision to approve new zoning measures for the company.

The mobilization is a continuous trend across Texas with more and more communities pushing back. Earlier this month, residents in Red Oak, located south of Dallas, also created a petition against a proposed 830 acre development that's gaining over 2,000 signatures, urging their city council to reject the plans.

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Project Matador: Missouri City, Texas.

Texas is expected to have the largest data center in the world. Well, if you say everything is bigger in Texas. Texas is expected to have the largest data center in the world called Project Matador. If you're wondering how big this is, you can fit 15 Disneylands inside, or it can encompass the whole island of Keyquest.

If you're wondering about the power, it will take 17 gigatts of power, which can power three islands, the whole state of Colorado, and then even more power for the whole country of New Zealand. But do not worry because it will only take one billion gallons of water a year.

It will also produce only 23 and5 pounds of greenhouse admission, which is about 15% of the entire state of Texas. And if you're wondering how loud, well, about 90 to 120 decels, which is equivalent to standing next to somebody's with powerful, I would suggest pulling at Missouri, show up at every meeting and vote out any single council member that goes against what the public wants, because they work for us, not the other way around.