The plain and simple truth about a potential Data Center?
Please remember the landfill is being built. It’s not a maybe. It is under construction.
A few facts about the potential Data Center and Sand Mine project that need to be repeated. First and foremost, yes if this company buys the land and builds the Data Center and Sand Mine there will be NO landfill.
This has nothing to do with Bit Coin. This is a long-term system with major Fortune 500 companies or government entities. The first phase would be three attractive buildings that anyone would be proud to drive up to and work.
The Data Center project will bring in a natural gas line from the edge of Glynn County along Hwy. 82 or CSX rights of way. There won’t be any imminent domain issues on private property as shown in the video.
That gas line could run down 82 or CSX to Nahunta to feed the pellet mill and Hoboken to feed the sawmill. This would bring the county double or triple the sales tax on the sale of natural gas. And it will STOP THE LANDFILL.
They will use that natural gas to create their own electricity. In a meeting with upper management and engineering at OREMC, they welcomed that news and offered their support.
In Brunswick, there are three natural gas turbines in use today to manage load swings every day and every night. It is the cleanest way to make enough power that you can run a facility.
And, the county and school board will bring in about $500,000 a year in sales tax on the sale of that gas. And it will STOP THE LANDFILL.
The large lake dug to build the foundation for the landfill that is currently under construction will be used as water for the “closed loop” chillers to cool the computers. So that water is circulated and the only well-water needed is to maintain the level in the pond.
This will be no more than the water pumped from an irrigation pivot. Three pulp mills just closed which used about 40 million gallons of water a day each.
So, our water table is better off than in many years. And this project will STOP THE LANDFILL.
The chillers will be managed, construction will be conducted in such a way to emit minimal noise levels, and the facility is in the middle of 2,300 acres. Noise won't be an issue. And this project will STOP THE LANDFILL.
The Data Center project brings over 100 well-paying jobs. The Sand Mine Project brings even more. The estimated addition to Brantley County’s tax digest is between $250$350 million (or about 50 percent increase) for the Data Center and the Sand Mine combined.
That will drive a reduction in your property taxes. Since computers are upgraded every 36 to 48 months, the Data Center will maintain its value. And this project will STOP THE LANDFILL.
While the Planning Commission in meetings with the project team explained the property as zoned today could hold a Data Center, the project team has waited for the commission to complete the land use extension/exception and to draft its ordinance, but time is running out.
We need the commission to, at its next meeting, approve the Land Use extension and submit its initial draft of the ordinance which requires additional readings before its official.
If they can do that, we can bring in the biggest project to come to Brantley County in our lifetimes AND we can STOP THE LANDFILL.
So please call the commissioners at 912-4625256 to thank them for their work on this project, having an opportunity to finally STOP THE LANDFILL and voice your support for the Data Center and Sand Mine project to reduce our taxes, to provide future jobs for our families and as if we can’t say it enough, TO STOP THE LANDFILL.
Ronald E. Ham Brantley County GOP Chairman
