The recording of Missoula’s data center event is available to watch on MEIC’s YouTube channel.
By: David Erickson, Missoulian
Some have nicknamed it “Keystone Light.” But this fossil fuel pipeline, if it becomes a reality, would not be small by comparison.
Representatives from four environmental nonprofits gave a presentation in Missoula on Tuesday night to sound the alarm bells about the harms that may come from data centers in Montana if they’re allowed to consume vast quantities of electricity.
“We are driving a car off a cliff,” said Anne Hedges, the executive director of the Montana Environmental Information Center. “And we have nobody here to protect us at the moment. I just want to talk the scale of what we’re talking about, because, like I said, we have never seen anything like this.”
She gave a presentation to a crowd of over 100 at the University Center Theater on the University of Montana campus, talking about how much power data centers will require in the next decade in the U.S. if their growth continues unabated.
