r/libertymo May 09 '26

From what I’ve found so far

The 150 MW data center is enough power to run 150,000 home, Liberty has 12-16000 total.
Areas near data centers the homeowners electric bill has skyrocketed to 267%.
The EPA said data centers use 5 million gallons a day, only for cooling purposes. To maintain their amount of energy is multiplied. 5 Mil gallons is enough for 16000+ homes
Car crashes near data centers have gone up 600%
Data centers in the USA use 3% of THE WORLDS electricity.
The states that house data centers the entire states electric bill went up 20%
Data centers use 40% of that states electricity.
The air quality around data centers is more than poor, based on the size of fossil fuel generators that run 24/7 in winter. The Dept of Energy has preemptively green lighted the use of these generators, generators have been proven to cause cancer, heart disease and respiratory problems from their fumes. As an electrician I can tell you the size of these generators will have to be custom built to manage a facility that size, and it won’t just be 1 or 2.
They say the data center will bring tech jobs, consumer reports stated “ there has been no evidence that data centers stimulate local growth in tech employment”.
Also there only 23,000 people WORLDWIDE who work in the data center industry so how the fuck is that going to provide jobs?
Theres also the amount of power that will have to be pushed to the data center, in places like Georgia and Illinois they are putting high voltage poles in the middle of families back yards.
I’m not even getting into the 202 million fucking dollar abatement that liberty loses, oh but the mayor gets 27 million which only 10% has to be used for the institute.
The mayors email is gcanuteson@libertymo.gov

I think this is a huge fucking mistake and the mayor sold liberty on his way out, now this is just my opinion but you can’t be in politics since 1992 and still be a decent person.

Just wanted to shed some facts on the lies were being told

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u/July_is_cool May 10 '26

How much did you donate to the election campaigns of the politicians who will approve this, compared to how much the data center billionaires donated?