Residents learn more about potential data center project in Port Washington

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PORT WASHINGTON — Port Washington city leaders discussed a potential data center project that could come to the area Tuesday night for the first time in months.

“Not having answers to these important questions has led to mistrust of the Common Council,” concerned resident Pat Morrissey said during public comment.

The Common Council meeting was packed as Cloverleaf Infrastructure, the developer, provided insights into what could be built in the area.Watch: Residents learn more about potential data center project in Port Washington

Residents learn more about potential data center project in Port Washington

“The secrets up until tonight that you hold keep the public in the dark about the economic and environmental risks of these projects,” Morrissey explained.Morrissey finally got some answers to the questions she brought to TMJ4 in early December and last night.”Had tonight’s work session taken place earlier, it might have really allayed the fears of the community,” Morrissey said.The developers are eyeing more than 1,000 acres of land adjacent to I-43 near Lake Drive, currently in the town of Port Washington. The potential development project would require the city to annex the land from the township.Residents have told TMJ4 that offers have been made on their properties.”We have options on roughly 40-45 pieces of property,” said Aaron Bilyeu, chief development officer with Cloverleaf Infrastructure.A major concern Bilyeu addressed is the amount of power the data center would use.”There’s plenty of energy. The rumors that data centers are taking up all the energy are not true. There will be new generation assets brought online,” he explained.Bilyeu said there isn’t a set plan on which company would buy the space. However, he said it will be one of the larger data companies. He also noted that this project could bring more jobs and revenue to the area.”So there is a significant amount of construction jobs created during the multiyear development of a campus like this, and then there are a lot of high-paying tech jobs,” Bilyeu said.Although this is the very beginning of the potential data center project, Bilyeu said they could break ground by the end of the year if everything goes through.
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My disabled mother paid £500 to travel near an Avanti accessible toilet … and it was closed

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My disabled mother and elderly father recently travelled by train to London for the first time in years to celebrate a big birthday.They paid £500 for first-class tickets on Avanti West Coast, primarily for the use of an easily accessible toilet. However, it was a disaster.My mother is a wheelchair user and my 80-year-old father is her carer. They were gutted to discover that the toilet in their carriage was not working due to a faulty door, and there were no other accessible ones in reach. The nearest was seven carriages away.It was not possible for my father to push a wheelchair that far on a train.Disabled people are already at such a disadvantage, even in finding the money for such expensive train tickets.My parents were extremely uncomfortable and, to be quite frank, worried my mother was going to wet herself.Avanti’s initial suggestion was to “offload” them at the next stop, which was demeaning and insulting. Of course, getting a refund will require a lifetime of effort but, more than anything else, I want to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.Name and address suppliedThis was a horrible experience for your parents. After we contacted Avanti West Coast it apologised and offered them a full refund, as well as new tickets to travel at a future date.“We’ve also offered a phone call with our accessibility and inclusion manager to apologise directly, and speak to them about the circumstances of their journey to ensure lessons are learned,” it says.You are still corresponding with Avanti to establish what went wrong, in the hope others will be spared such an experience.Your parents paid a small fortune for their tickets, so it’s worth checking out the concessions available for disabled rail passengers.The disabled persons railcard, for example, entitles the customer to a third off travel for themselves and a companion.We welcome letters but cannot answer individually. Email us at [email protected] or write to Consumer Champions, Money, the Guardian, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. Please include a daytime phone number. Submission and publication of all letters is subject to our terms and conditions.

Big Tech rolls out the red carpet for Trump ahead of his inauguration

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Tech leaders continue to fall in line around Donald Trump, with Facebook’s announcement that it would end its U.S. fact-checking program the latest victory for the president-elect and his billionaire advisor Elon Musk.Facebook parent Meta’s move into fact-checking came in the wake of Trump’s shock election in 2016, which critics said was enabled by rampant disinformation on Facebook and interference by foreign actors, including Russia, on the platform.It was long-criticized by conservatives, who found themselves ensnared in its anti-disinformation work.