I’m requesting assistance to draft an email to our city council here in small-city-near-a-big-city Canada to help them decide to not allow an AI datacenter to be built. They said they won’t read a big long letter with citations and everything which is sort of unfortunate, because it’s what I had prepared, but I feel I’ve got to write something.
Is there a list of punchy and true reasons why a small community would absolutely not want one of these things up in Canada here in a short form? My habit of over-writing things will only hurt, so it needs to make sense to people only barely tech-literate. This is why I need help.
Background: I run a medium-sized IT firm and am very familiar with how they operate and what they entail. In fact, my company was selected to help implement the center until we saw the plans and the future scale (more than 10x) with the lack of care they envisioned and chose to back out completely.
So you want to block a data center but you have no reason to be opposed to it?
Not at all. I updated my initial request to clarify.
First I’d check what could get you in legal trouble. You may have insider information since you were selected for implementing it.
Second step is finding someone that is non technical that is not afraid tell you they don’t understand. In my life that would be my mum, maybe my old English teacher. Then explain to them the situation that you want to explain why it’s a bad idea to a non technical and need their help.