There are plans to put a 1000 acre data center in Kentucky.
This isn’t just any space they're planning either, it’s planned for the exit of Mammoth Cave National Park. The world’s longest cave systems, with more than 400 miles explored, diverse unique and protected wildlife and it's one of the oldest tour attractions in North America.
As of Monday 18th May, Cave City leaders voted four- to-one, approving the first of two required readings of a moratorium that would block data center permit applications for one year. Now there is a year's long moratorium in process. Be loud, make noise, get more and more Cave City people to show up to town hall meetings than there are already (which is a good number).
The cave network began forming roughly 330 million years ago. Indigenous people began exploring and mining minerals from the cave's dark depths at least 5,000 years ago.
Because the cave is pitch-black, it is home to uniquely adapted eyeless and colorless creatures, including the Kentucky cave shrimp and the southern cavefish.
This data centre also affects one most biologically diverse water systems in America, The Green River, which flows into the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and supports wildlife and millions of people with drinking water and farming.
There is also concern that the lack of power and surface water, as well as vibrations over the sinkhole plain makes this area even more dangerous, yet they're desperately pushing for it.
What about Mammoth Caves dark sky certification? Data centers are bright and loud. This would completely ruin the brilliant stargazing opportunities there.
The data centre will harm and potentially kill the bats that live in that cave which are essential to the ecosystem and protected under the endangered species act, all bats are federally protected.
For a video on how dangerous and disruptive sound from these data centres can be check out this video from Benn Jordan here.
Above Town Hall images by Leticia Cline.
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