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Speaker 1: Lowell City councilors tell me the Marke League Group data

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Speaker 1: center was approved back in twenty fifteen, well before it

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Speaker 1: was understood how an AI and data center would impact

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Speaker 1: an abutting residential neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Before anyone knew what AI was or how energy and

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Speaker 2: water intensive data centers are.

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Speaker 1: That city councilor Sean McDonough.

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Speaker 2: Frankly, it's really necessary for us to play the game

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Speaker 2: of regulatory catch up.

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Speaker 1: The council and many neighbors are concerned about the three

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand square foot data center, with its

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Speaker 1: many large diesel generators and water cooling towers sitting just

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Speaker 1: feet away from some homes, and its massive power usage.

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Speaker 2: You'll say, well, we can't move to electrifying new housing

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Speaker 2: developments because our grid can't handle it. But on the

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Speaker 2: same grid, we have a forty on the way to

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Speaker 2: fifty megal lot data center in

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Speaker 1: Lowell's Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio