Those with concerns about what happens to the environment when data centers operate and what a community can do to regulate those operations will hear from another expert during the third installment of a series of expert speakers tonight. The series was developed so that Sheboygan Common Council members and the public can both learn, at the same time, about what to include when developing zoning codes governing where and how data centers can operate.
The Great Plains Institute supports zero-carbon energy futures and allows municipal, county, and tribal governments to have a unified voice in regional planning. Bridget Williams is the Policy Coordinator for Energy Systems with the institute, and City Administrator Casey Bradley says that she was chosen to address concerns about how data centers can impact the local energy and environmental economies through their operations.
Bradley said: “Their work is not supportive of private industry, necessarily. It’s support of local government. So, Bridget, if you read in her bio, does a lot of work in advocating, obviously, for clean energy and carbon offset practices, things like that, but also looks at the environmental health of things, and she works with local units of government to establish policies and practices around data centers to look at the environmental impact overall.”
Tonight’s meeting is from 6-8 PM at Uptown Social. The public is invited to attend either in-person or virtually, and virtual access is available through the QR code above.
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