Oregon Data Center have been taking land and resources at an alarming rate, driving up energy costs and contaminating water, resulting in Oregon’s 1st ever Ground Water Contamination Crisis.
TAKEAWAYS:
- ODOT to Pay $209M for Data Center Roads
- Oregon Roads are in disrepair
- Tina Kotek mislead Oregonians about ODOT Budget
- ODOT is using budget for DEI and Agenda, NOT ROADS
- Tamra Mabbott mislead Oregonians by changing her story
- Possible Collusion between ODOT, Tamra Mabbott, Tina Kotek, and Foreign Corporations via Greg Smith who is on Ways and Means (decides State budgets)
TRENDING DATA CENTER ARTICLES:
ODOT TO PAY $209M FOR DATA CENTER ROADS
We have received a tip as more and more Oregonians rise to the call, standing against the injustices happening at the hands of our current leadership who are all betraying us in the name of progress for profits.
Just in, it looks like ODOT is going to spend $209 MILLION DOLLORS for Data Center Roads while Oregon roads are a disaster. Plus, does anyone else remember when Tina Kotek said ODOT couldn’t afford Snow Plows last winter so we need to give them more money? Or is that just me…
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FB POST BY “BOARDMAN BYTES”
In a post made on Facebook by “Boardman Bytes” with the image seen below, they outline matters of concern. Take a look.
Morrow County taxpayers need to pay attention.
At the April 27 Data Center Advisory meeting, Tamra Mabbott stated that data center construction traffic can be 800–1,200 vehicles per day.
The very next day, April 28, the County was discussing the Tower Road / I-84 Exit 159 IAMP project — a project showing long-term interchange improvements estimated at roughly $174–209 million, plus right-of-way costs.
That matters.
The County’s own data center map shows:
– 10 approved data center campuses
– 1 application under review
– a 1,300-acre data center overlay
– a 300-acre overlay not shown
– numerous potential future sites
– Boardman Airport / Exascale Data Center Overlay areas
So the question is simple:
If data center growth is triggering the need for major road, interchange, utility, and transmission upgrades, who is paying?
Are ODOT/Morrow County taxpayers paying?
Are ratepayers paying?
Or are the private developments creating the traffic impacts paying?
The IAMP documents talk about growth triggers, construction phasing, access changes, mitigation, right-of-way, and major interchange improvements. This is not just “conceptual” when developments are already beginning and construction traffic is already being discussed.
Morrow County needs to clearly explain:
1. Whether active data center projects are counted toward the Tower Road IAMP growth triggers;
2. Whether construction traffic is included in the traffic analysis;
3. Who pays for the interchange improvements;
4. Whether the public, affected landowners, and taxpayers are being protected;
5. Why these data center traffic numbers were not made clearer in the April 28 packet.
Those who trigger the growth should pay for the growth.
The public deserves transparency before these costs get shifted onto residents, landowners, water users, power customers, or taxpayers.
Time Stamp 01:20 Tamra Mabbott (Morrow County Planner speaks)
Video link embed below: https://youtu.be/8EBCILcVgHQ?si=sje0VVKzH14P76tY
Original post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BA5mcG5Jr/
01:38:30 Time stamp, Tamera Mabbot Morrow County Planning Director, verbally tells us that about 800-1200 vehicles use the roadway. She later changes her tune and pretends not to know what is happening.
EXPECT AN UPDATE, we pushed this out as fast as possible for you.
UPDATE
COMMUNITY NOTE ANSWER: This is for Data Centers, and not the public. The town is suffering from a water crisis and people are not flocking to live there by any means. The traffic, as stated in the video above, is for Data Center use, and she also states it’s the developers responsibility to pay for the upgrades (NOT ODOT, or maybe that’s what the $100M was for?) Boardman, Oregon does not have a regular traffic influx to merit a $209 million upgrade. Without the Data Centers there it’s closer to only 500 or less after the development is complete as Tamera Mabbot highlights at min 01:38:30 and she only estimates 1,200 vehicles per day for the Data Centers development. Well over double the traffic.
Plus, AWS provides a service that many do not think about, and that is Cloud Server Hosting for business and their own websites. Plus, “AWS’s AI revenue run rate is over $15 billion.” Begging the question, why don’t they pay for the $209 Million in road upgrades?
Hillsboro starts at app 01:46:00 https://youtu.be/8EBCILcVgHQ?si=5FvJCED3UIEMIwkc&t=6377
OVER 100,000 ACRES OF SOLAR & WIND IN MORROW COUNTY ALONE
Must Watch minutes 01:39:00/ish on but 01:43:00 to 01:43:53 Tamera Mabbot Morrow County Planning Director brags about having over 100,000 acres of “Renewable Energy” aka Solar and Wind in Morrow County, Oregon, and let’s not forget that Wind Turbines End Bald Eagles but Obama said it was OK for the next 30 years from his time in power.
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