1 00:00:21,054 --> 00:00:22,322 ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOOD. LET'S GO 2 00:00:22,322 --> 00:00:23,022 LIVE HERE. 3 00:00:23,022 --> 00:00:25,325 GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY. 4 00:00:25,325 --> 00:00:27,560 GOOD TO SEE EVERYBODY HERE. 5 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,496 TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3rd. 6 00:00:29,496 --> 00:00:30,363 THIS IS THE MEETING OF PARKS 7 00:00:30,363 --> 00:00:31,698 AND CITY LIGHT, AND THE 8 00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:33,133 COMMITTEE WILL COME TO ORDER. 9 00:00:33,133 --> 00:00:35,568 IT IS 2:03, AND I'M 10 00:00:35,568 --> 00:00:35,969 DEBORA JUAREZ. 11 00:00:35,969 --> 00:00:38,471 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE 12 00:00:38,471 --> 00:00:39,105 ROLL? 13 00:00:39,239 --> 00:00:39,839 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. 14 00:00:39,973 --> 00:00:41,374 >> HERE. 15 00:00:41,508 --> 00:00:42,509 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. 16 00:00:42,709 --> 00:00:43,109 >> HERE. 17 00:00:43,109 --> 00:00:44,577 >> COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA. 18 00:00:44,577 --> 00:00:45,979 VICE CHAIR KETTLE. 19 00:00:45,979 --> 00:00:46,780 CHAIR 20 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:47,013 JUAREZ. 21 00:00:47,013 --> 00:00:48,148 >> THANK YOU. 22 00:00:48,148 --> 00:00:49,582 FOR THE RECORD I WANT 23 00:00:49,582 --> 00:00:50,483 TO ANNOUNCE THAT 24 00:00:50,483 --> 00:00:53,353 COUNCILMEMBER KETTLE AND RIVERA 25 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:53,520 ARE 26 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:54,020 EXCUSED FROM 27 00:00:54,020 --> 00:00:54,954 TODAY'S MEETING. MOVING ONTO 28 00:00:54,954 --> 00:00:56,022 THE APPROVAL OF 29 00:00:56,022 --> 00:00:56,556 THE AGENDA. 30 00:00:56,556 --> 00:00:58,725 IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION, THE 31 00:00:58,725 --> 00:01:00,393 AGENDA WILL BE ADOPTED. 32 00:01:00,393 --> 00:01:01,628 NOT SEEING OR HEARING AN 33 00:01:01,628 --> 00:01:04,230 OBJECTION, IT IS INDEED ADOPTED. 34 00:01:04,230 --> 00:01:05,698 AND I'M GOING TO GO STRAIGHT 35 00:01:05,698 --> 00:01:07,267 TO THE CHAIR'S REPORT 36 00:01:07,267 --> 00:01:08,835 OVER WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HANDLE 37 00:01:08,835 --> 00:01:09,035 HERE 38 00:01:09,169 --> 00:01:10,603 TODAY. AND I HAVE A FEW COMMENTS 39 00:01:10,603 --> 00:01:10,937 I 40 00:01:10,937 --> 00:01:11,571 WANT TO MAKE. 41 00:01:11,571 --> 00:01:13,873 THERE WILL BE A REGULAR 42 00:01:13,873 --> 00:01:14,641 PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD BEFORE 43 00:01:14,641 --> 00:01:14,841 ITEMS 44 00:01:14,841 --> 00:01:16,543 ON THE AGENDA. 45 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:19,179 COMMENTS SHOULD BE RELATED TO 46 00:01:19,179 --> 00:01:20,447 THE ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA 47 00:01:20,447 --> 00:01:22,348 AND WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THIS 48 00:01:22,348 --> 00:01:22,682 COMMITTEE. 49 00:01:22,682 --> 00:01:24,284 THERE ARE TWO RESOLUTIONS ON THE 50 00:01:24,284 --> 00:01:24,918 AGENDA TODAY. 51 00:01:24,918 --> 00:01:26,786 THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS 52 00:01:26,786 --> 00:01:29,856 A RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION 53 00:01:29,856 --> 00:01:31,624 32204 ABOUT DATA CENTERS. 54 00:01:31,624 --> 00:01:33,960 THIS RESOLUTION COMES AS A 55 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:35,762 RAPID INCREASE OF LARGE DATA 56 00:01:35,762 --> 00:01:36,296 CENTERS 57 00:01:36,296 --> 00:01:37,464 BEING BUILT CONTINUES DUE TO THE 58 00:01:37,464 --> 00:01:38,665 BOOM 59 00:01:38,665 --> 00:01:40,867 IN A.I. THE RESOLUTION ADDRESSES 60 00:01:40,867 --> 00:01:41,000 A 61 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,069 NEED FOR CITYCITY TO 62 00:01:43,069 --> 00:01:44,204 LOOK AT THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF 63 00:01:44,204 --> 00:01:45,872 DATA CENTERS ON OUR CITY 64 00:01:45,872 --> 00:01:46,239 AND RESIDENTS. 65 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:47,941 THIS IS OUR SECOND TIME 66 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:50,710 HEARING THIS RESOLUTION. 67 00:01:50,710 --> 00:01:51,611 HOWEVER, THERE ARE TWO NEW 68 00:01:51,611 --> 00:01:52,912 AMENDMENTS TODAY WITH 69 00:01:52,912 --> 00:01:55,415 TECHNICAL FIXES AND SOME 70 00:01:55,415 --> 00:01:55,715 ADDITIONAL 71 00:01:55,849 --> 00:01:57,050 LANGUAGE. FOLLOWING MEETINGS 72 00:01:57,050 --> 00:01:57,484 WE'VE HAD 73 00:01:57,484 --> 00:01:59,152 WITH EXPERTS AND OF COURSE 74 00:01:59,152 --> 00:02:03,456 WHAT WE HEARD AT PUBLIC COMMENT 75 00:02:03,456 --> 00:02:04,123 N MAY 20th. 76 00:02:04,123 --> 00:02:05,191 OVER 30 PEOPLE HAD 77 00:02:05,191 --> 00:02:06,860 PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING THE 78 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:07,594 PROPOSED 79 00:02:07,727 --> 00:02:08,394 RESOLUTION. WE ALSO MET WITH 80 00:02:08,394 --> 00:02:09,762 LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS WORKING ON 81 00:02:09,762 --> 00:02:09,963 THIS 82 00:02:09,963 --> 00:02:11,197 ISSUE. THIS PRESENTATION WILL 83 00:02:11,197 --> 00:02:14,167 BE PRESENTED BY ERIC 84 00:02:14,167 --> 00:02:14,601 McCONAGHYMcCONAGHY 85 00:02:14,601 --> 00:02:14,968 CENTRAL STAFF. 86 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:17,570 THE SECOND ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS 87 00:02:17,570 --> 00:02:21,040 A RESOLUTION AND RESOLUTION 88 00:02:21,174 --> 00:02:23,443 32206. THAT APPROVES SEATTLE 89 00:02:23,443 --> 00:02:23,977 CITY 90 00:02:23,977 --> 00:02:26,379 LIGHTS 2026 INTEGRATED RESOURCE 91 00:02:26,379 --> 00:02:28,248 PLAN, THE IRP. 92 00:02:28,248 --> 00:02:32,485 AND THE IRP IS A LONG- TERM 93 00:02:32,619 --> 00:02:33,786 STRATEGY TO MEET ANTICIPATED 94 00:02:33,786 --> 00:02:36,156 CUSTOMER ENERGY NEEDS OVER THE 95 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:39,592 NEXT 20 YEARS IT IS 96 00:02:39,592 --> 00:02:41,027 REPUBLISHED EVERY FOUR YEARS 97 00:02:41,027 --> 00:02:41,427 WITH PROGRESS 98 00:02:41,427 --> 00:02:42,829 REPORTS DUE EACH -- 99 00:02:42,829 --> 00:02:44,397 WITH PROGRESS REPORTS DUE TWO 100 00:02:44,397 --> 00:02:46,666 YEARS AFTER EACH 101 00:02:46,666 --> 00:02:48,001 FULL IRP. SORRY, I HAD TO GET 102 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:49,435 THAT 103 00:02:49,569 --> 00:02:50,670 CORRECT. THIS IRP IS FOCUSED 104 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:51,804 ON ADDRESSING CHANGES IN 105 00:02:51,804 --> 00:02:52,071 CUSTOMER 106 00:02:52,071 --> 00:02:53,473 NEEDS, EXISTING POWER 107 00:02:53,473 --> 00:02:55,108 SUPPLY, AND ASSUMPTIONS ON NOW 108 00:02:55,108 --> 00:02:55,341 ENERGY 109 00:02:55,341 --> 00:02:56,676 RESOURCE TECHNOLOGIES AND COSTS. 110 00:02:56,676 --> 00:02:58,745 MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT 111 00:02:58,745 --> 00:03:05,151 UNDER STATE LAW RCW 19280. 050, 112 00:03:05,151 --> 00:03:05,985 THIS ACTION REQUIRES 113 00:03:05,985 --> 00:03:07,287 PUBLIC NOTICE IN A HEARING, 114 00:03:07,287 --> 00:03:08,187 WHICH WE'RE 115 00:03:08,187 --> 00:03:08,388 DOING 116 00:03:08,388 --> 00:03:09,889 TODAY. AND THIS INFORMATION IS 117 00:03:09,889 --> 00:03:11,357 REQUIRED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF 118 00:03:11,357 --> 00:03:11,658 COMMERCE, 119 00:03:11,658 --> 00:03:13,126 AND THE DEADLINE FOR THIS 120 00:03:13,126 --> 00:03:15,161 IS SEPTEMBER 1, 2026. 121 00:03:15,161 --> 00:03:17,430 THE LAST TIME THE IRP WAS 122 00:03:17,430 --> 00:03:19,365 ADOPTED WAS 123 00:03:19,365 --> 00:03:20,934 AUGUST 2024. MY UNDERSTANDING IS 124 00:03:20,934 --> 00:03:23,069 TODAY SEATTLE CITY LIGHT WILL 125 00:03:23,069 --> 00:03:25,104 BE PRESENTING A POWERPOINT. 126 00:03:25,104 --> 00:03:26,873 WE'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO 127 00:03:26,873 --> 00:03:29,209 LOOK AT A SUMMARY AND A FISCAL 128 00:03:29,209 --> 00:03:29,442 NOTE. 129 00:03:29,442 --> 00:03:30,210 AND OF COURSE I THINK 130 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:32,278 THERE'S MORE TO IT, BUT I JUST 131 00:03:32,278 --> 00:03:32,512 LOOKED 132 00:03:32,512 --> 00:03:36,382 AT THE 18-PAGE IRP, NOT THE 133 00:03:36,382 --> 00:03:37,450 300- PAGE ONE. 134 00:03:37,450 --> 00:03:38,618 I CONSTITUENT GOING TO 135 00:03:38,618 --> 00:03:40,019 DO THAT. I'M JUST GOING TO TELL 136 00:03:40,019 --> 00:03:41,955 YOU THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW. 137 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:46,693 SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS I'LL LET 138 00:03:46,693 --> 00:03:48,294 WHEN THE LIGHT FOLKS COME UP 139 00:03:48,294 --> 00:03:49,195 HERE THEY CAN INTRODUCE 140 00:03:49,329 --> 00:03:50,997 THEMSELVES. I KNOW ERIC 141 00:03:50,997 --> 00:03:51,264 McCONAGHY 142 00:03:51,264 --> 00:03:52,031 FROM CENTRAL STAFF WILL BE 143 00:03:52,031 --> 00:03:53,099 HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AS 144 00:03:53,099 --> 00:03:53,299 WELL. 145 00:03:53,299 --> 00:03:55,902 I DO EXPECT A VOTE ON THE DATA 146 00:03:56,035 --> 00:03:57,403 RESOLUTION. HOWEVER, WE'LL NOT 147 00:03:57,403 --> 00:03:57,737 BE VOTING ON 148 00:03:57,737 --> 00:03:59,339 THE SEATTLE CITY LIGHT 2026 IRP. 149 00:03:59,339 --> 00:04:00,873 THAT WILL BE FOR OUR 150 00:04:00,873 --> 00:04:04,110 NEXT COMMITTEE HEARING. 151 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:05,078 SO WITH THAT ON OUR 152 00:04:05,078 --> 00:04:06,145 AGENDA, LET'S MOVE TO PUBLIC 153 00:04:06,145 --> 00:04:06,412 COMMENT. 154 00:04:06,412 --> 00:04:08,581 WE'LL NOW OPEN THE HYBRID 155 00:04:08,581 --> 00:04:09,549 PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. 156 00:04:09,549 --> 00:04:10,883 PUBLIC COMMENTS SHOULD RELATE 157 00:04:10,883 --> 00:04:12,352 TO ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA 158 00:04:12,352 --> 00:04:13,987 AND WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF 159 00:04:13,987 --> 00:04:15,722 THIS COMMITTEE. 160 00:04:15,722 --> 00:04:18,324 MR. CLERK, PAUL, POLICY PAUL, 161 00:04:18,324 --> 00:04:24,197 HOW MANY SPEAKERS WE GOT SIGNED 162 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:25,098 UP TODAY IN PERSON AND REMOTE? 163 00:04:25,231 --> 00:04:25,832 >> CURRENTLY HAVE 18 IN-PERSON 164 00:04:25,832 --> 00:04:27,934 SPEAKERS SIGNED UP AND 8 REMOTE 165 00:04:27,934 --> 00:04:30,503 SPEAKERS -- OH, NINE. 166 00:04:30,637 --> 00:04:32,472 >> WHAT DO WE HAVE? 167 00:04:32,472 --> 00:04:34,274 SAY IT AGAIN? 168 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:36,075 LET'S DO THIS, LET'S TAKE 169 00:04:36,075 --> 00:04:37,243 THE FIRST TEN IN-PERSON. 170 00:04:37,243 --> 00:04:40,079 AND IF YOU COULD READ THE 171 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:41,981 NAMES OUT THREE AT A TIME SO 172 00:04:41,981 --> 00:04:42,415 THEY CAN 173 00:04:42,415 --> 00:04:42,915 QUEUE UP. 174 00:04:42,915 --> 00:04:46,753 I'M GOING TO LET YOU GO 175 00:04:46,753 --> 00:04:47,854 AHEAD WITH -- AND EVERYBODY 176 00:04:47,854 --> 00:04:48,688 WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES. 177 00:04:48,688 --> 00:04:50,356 AND I'M GOING TO LET YOU GO 178 00:04:50,356 --> 00:04:53,026 AHEAD AND READ THE 179 00:04:53,026 --> 00:04:53,493 INSTRUCTIONS FIRST. 180 00:04:53,493 --> 00:04:55,928 WAIT, WHAT WAS IT 181 00:04:55,928 --> 00:04:56,729 AGAIN? 18 AND 182 00:04:56,729 --> 00:04:57,096 9? 183 00:04:57,096 --> 00:05:00,066 >> 184 00:05:00,066 --> 00:05:01,434 CORRECT. 185 00:05:01,567 --> 00:05:01,968 >> OKAY, GO AHEAD. 186 00:05:02,101 --> 00:05:02,669 >> THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD 187 00:05:02,669 --> 00:05:03,202 WILL BE MODERATED IN THE 188 00:05:03,202 --> 00:05:03,603 FOLLOWING MANNER. 189 00:05:03,736 --> 00:05:05,071 THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS UP 190 00:05:05,071 --> 00:05:07,307 TO 60 MINUTES. 191 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:08,074 SPEAKERS WILL BE CALLED IN THE 192 00:05:08,074 --> 00:05:08,508 ORDER IN WHICH 193 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:09,075 THEY'RE REGISTERED. 194 00:05:09,075 --> 00:05:12,912 WE'LL BEGIN WITH TEN IN- PERSON 195 00:05:12,912 --> 00:05:14,447 PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND BACK TO 196 00:05:14,447 --> 00:05:17,483 REMOTE AND IN PERSON PUBLIC 197 00:05:17,617 --> 00:05:18,718 SPEAKERS UNTIL PUBLIC COMMENT 198 00:05:18,718 --> 00:05:19,152 PERIOD HAS ENDED. 199 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:20,687 SPEAKERS WILL HEAR A 200 00:05:20,687 --> 00:05:24,957 CHIME WHEN TEN SECONDS ARE LEFT. 201 00:05:24,957 --> 00:05:27,794 THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS 202 00:05:27,794 --> 00:05:28,027 NOW 203 00:05:28,027 --> 00:05:29,429 OPEN. FOR IN- PERSON COMMENTERS, 204 00:05:29,429 --> 00:05:32,165 THE FIRST IN- PERSON SPEAKER IS 205 00:05:32,165 --> 00:05:32,432 JEFF 206 00:05:32,432 --> 00:05:38,204 SLOAN FOLLOWED BY GABBIEGABBIE 207 00:05:38,204 --> 00:05:48,348 DARIUS. 208 00:05:52,852 --> 00:05:59,025 >> HOW ABOUT THIS 209 00:05:59,025 --> 00:05:59,926 ONE? 210 00:05:59,926 --> 00:06:01,227 >> ALL RIGHT, BEGINNING 211 00:06:01,227 --> 00:06:02,395 AGAIN, I'M JEFF SLOAN. 212 00:06:02,395 --> 00:06:04,831 I WAS A DESIGN MANAGER 213 00:06:04,831 --> 00:06:05,098 FOR 214 00:06:05,098 --> 00:06:06,399 DECADES. I'M NOW RETIRED. 215 00:06:06,399 --> 00:06:07,633 I WANT TO 216 00:06:07,633 --> 00:06:08,267 MENTION WHAT WE COULD DO WITH 217 00:06:08,267 --> 00:06:08,835 THE MORATORIUM. 218 00:06:08,835 --> 00:06:09,569 I'M IN FAVOR. 219 00:06:09,569 --> 00:06:11,804 IT COULD ALLOW US TO ADVANCE 220 00:06:11,804 --> 00:06:13,406 OUR CLIMATE COMMITMENT IN 221 00:06:13,406 --> 00:06:14,107 SOME PRETTY 222 00:06:14,107 --> 00:06:15,742 SIGNIFICANT WAYS. THE CITY'S OWN 223 00:06:15,742 --> 00:06:16,109 TOP NATURAL 224 00:06:16,109 --> 00:06:18,845 GAS USER IS A STEAM PLANT 225 00:06:18,845 --> 00:06:19,345 HATING SEATTLE CENTER. 226 00:06:19,345 --> 00:06:21,013 DO YOU KNOW THAT DATA CENTERS 227 00:06:21,013 --> 00:06:22,382 CAN MAKE STEAM, TOO? 228 00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:24,050 IF NEW DATA CENTERS 229 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:27,053 WILL OCCUR IN SEATTLE, WHY NOT 230 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:27,253 JUST 231 00:06:27,253 --> 00:06:28,821 OUTRIGHT LURE 232 00:06:28,821 --> 00:06:29,789 ONE TO SEATTLE CENTER AND TAKE 233 00:06:29,789 --> 00:06:30,323 ITS WASTE 234 00:06:30,323 --> 00:06:32,158 HEAT TO MAKE STEAM FOR LESS COST 235 00:06:32,158 --> 00:06:33,626 THAN USING NATURAL GAS? 236 00:06:33,626 --> 00:06:34,627 I THOUGHT OF A SYSTEM THAT USES 237 00:06:34,627 --> 00:06:37,096 A DATA CENTER TO HEAT 238 00:06:37,096 --> 00:06:37,897 AMAZON'S DOWNTOWN CAMPUS. 239 00:06:37,897 --> 00:06:40,900 TEN YEARS IN, NO REGRETS. 240 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:43,770 AMAZON'S GAS BOILERS DO STAY 241 00:06:43,903 --> 00:06:47,106 OFF. CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA WAS 242 00:06:47,106 --> 00:06:47,406 EXPENSIVE. 243 00:06:47,406 --> 00:06:50,209 WHY UPGRADE EACH BUILDING ON THE 244 00:06:50,343 --> 00:06:51,177 SEATTLE CENTER CAMPUS. WHY 245 00:06:51,177 --> 00:06:52,512 UPGRADE THE CAMPUS 246 00:06:52,512 --> 00:06:54,547 ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION FOR HEAT 247 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,216 PUMPS? WHY NOT JUST MAKE YOUR 248 00:06:57,216 --> 00:06:57,583 STEAM 249 00:06:57,583 --> 00:06:59,452 USING 250 00:06:59,452 --> 00:07:00,119 A DATA CENTER'S THROW AWAY HEAT 251 00:07:00,119 --> 00:07:01,087 AND GET A CLEAN 252 00:07:01,087 --> 00:07:03,089 DISTRICT HEAT SYSTEM, A STEADY 253 00:07:03,089 --> 00:07:06,592 TENANT, AND REPNEUMERATIVE BASE 254 00:07:06,592 --> 00:07:06,926 LOAD 255 00:07:06,926 --> 00:07:07,894 FOR SEATTLE CITY LIGHT RIGHT 256 00:07:07,894 --> 00:07:10,563 AWAY INSTEAD OF A HIGHER WINTER 257 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:11,664 CAMPUS PEAK WITHOUT STEAM 258 00:07:11,664 --> 00:07:13,032 AND A SLOW CLOSING OF THE STEAM 259 00:07:13,032 --> 00:07:13,266 PLANT? 260 00:07:13,266 --> 00:07:17,069 AND BUSINESSES CAN STAY OPEN. 261 00:07:17,069 --> 00:07:17,904 THERE ARE ALSO VERY 262 00:07:17,904 --> 00:07:20,606 GOOD OPPORTUNITIES AT THE 263 00:07:20,606 --> 00:07:23,009 PORT'S OPERATION AT CTAC AND AT 264 00:07:23,009 --> 00:07:23,976 THE U. 265 00:07:23,976 --> 00:07:24,710 DUB CAMPUS. 266 00:07:24,710 --> 00:07:26,546 THANK 267 00:07:26,546 --> 00:07:27,013 YOU. 268 00:07:27,013 --> 00:07:27,346 >> THANK 269 00:07:27,346 --> 00:07:27,780 YOU. 270 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:29,749 >> THE NEXT SPEAKER'S 271 00:07:29,749 --> 00:07:34,854 GABBIE FOLLOWED BY DARIUS AND 272 00:07:34,854 --> 00:07:35,454 JOBI. 273 00:07:35,454 --> 00:07:37,023 >> HELLO, COUNCILMEMBERS. 274 00:07:37,023 --> 00:07:38,825 MY NAME IS GABBIE, AND I AM 275 00:07:38,825 --> 00:07:41,093 HERE SPEAKING TODAY ON 276 00:07:41,093 --> 00:07:41,394 RESOLUTION 277 00:07:41,394 --> 00:07:43,529 32204 ABOUT THE DATA CENTERS. 278 00:07:43,529 --> 00:07:47,233 AND I REALLY WANT TO 279 00:07:47,233 --> 00:07:49,035 EMPHASIZE MY SUPPORT FOR THIS 280 00:07:49,035 --> 00:07:49,335 MORATORIUM. 281 00:07:49,335 --> 00:07:51,003 IT'S REALLY IMPERATIVE THAT 282 00:07:51,003 --> 00:07:53,673 WE MAKE DECISIONS THAT WILL 283 00:07:53,673 --> 00:07:53,906 OUTLIVE 284 00:07:53,906 --> 00:07:55,808 US AND SUPPORT FUTURE 285 00:07:55,808 --> 00:07:56,843 COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE IN 286 00:07:56,843 --> 00:07:57,176 THIS 287 00:07:57,176 --> 00:08:00,179 SPACE. AND ONE OF THOSE WAYS IS 288 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:01,314 BY SUPPORTING HOUSING. 289 00:08:01,314 --> 00:08:02,448 I READ THE 290 00:08:02,448 --> 00:08:04,083 DOCUMENTATION THAT WAS PROVIDED 291 00:08:04,083 --> 00:08:04,584 ONLINE AS WELL AS 292 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:06,018 THE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED, AND ONE 293 00:08:06,018 --> 00:08:10,323 OF THE THINGS I REALLY WANT 294 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:11,357 TO EMPHASIZE IS THE DEFINITION 295 00:08:11,357 --> 00:08:11,691 OF A 296 00:08:11,691 --> 00:08:12,792 DATA CENTER BASED ON THE 297 00:08:12,792 --> 00:08:14,293 PAPERWORK FOR THIS RESOLUTION 298 00:08:14,293 --> 00:08:15,728 IS FACILITIES USED PRIMARILY 299 00:08:15,728 --> 00:08:19,065 FOR THE HOUSING, OPERATION, OR 300 00:08:19,065 --> 00:08:20,032 CO-LOCATION OF -- 301 00:08:20,032 --> 00:08:22,602 TO SUMMARIZE THE REST OF IT -- 302 00:08:22,602 --> 00:08:23,135 TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES. 303 00:08:23,135 --> 00:08:25,671 THE USE OF THE TERM "HOUSING" 304 00:08:25,671 --> 00:08:27,707 IS VERY 305 00:08:27,707 --> 00:08:28,341 INTERESTING ESPECIALLY AS WE ARE 306 00:08:28,341 --> 00:08:29,642 CURRENTLY IN AN 307 00:08:29,642 --> 00:08:30,309 AFFORDABILITY CRISIS 308 00:08:30,309 --> 00:08:31,444 THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE COUNTRY 309 00:08:31,444 --> 00:08:33,212 AND ESPECIALLY HERE IN SEATTLE. 310 00:08:33,212 --> 00:08:35,748 BASED ON KING COUNTY'S REGIONAL 311 00:08:35,748 --> 00:08:38,885 HOMELESSNESS AUTHORITY IN 312 00:08:38,885 --> 00:08:43,155 2024'S COUNT, THEY HAD 313 00:08:43,155 --> 00:08:44,257 APPROXIMATELY 16,868 INDIVIDUALS 314 00:08:44,257 --> 00:08:44,657 THAT 315 00:08:44,657 --> 00:08:45,658 WERE DOCUMENTED AS BEING 316 00:08:45,658 --> 00:08:46,058 HOMELESS. 317 00:08:46,058 --> 00:08:49,629 A 26% INCREASE SINCE 2024. 318 00:08:49,629 --> 00:08:51,530 MEDIAN RENT IN THE CITY IS 319 00:08:51,530 --> 00:08:55,034 APPROXIMATELY $2,237 320 00:08:55,034 --> 00:08:57,837 WITH MINIMUM WAGE BEING $21 AN 321 00:08:57,837 --> 00:09:00,539 HOUR. ADDITIONALLY ELECTRICITY 322 00:09:00,539 --> 00:09:03,276 CURRENTLY IS $134 A 323 00:09:03,276 --> 00:09:04,977 MONTH APPROXIMATELY IF YOU USE A 324 00:09:04,977 --> 00:09:06,279 THOUSAND KILOWATTS IN 325 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:06,846 EVERY SINGLE MONTH. 326 00:09:06,846 --> 00:09:10,883 AND THEN ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT, 327 00:09:10,883 --> 00:09:15,354 CURRENTLY GAS IS $5. 75 A GALLON 328 00:09:15,354 --> 00:09:16,022 ON MEDIAN. 329 00:09:16,022 --> 00:09:18,491 SO ALL OF THESE FACTORS 330 00:09:18,491 --> 00:09:19,492 ARE 331 00:09:19,492 --> 00:09:20,559 IMPACTING AFFORDABILITY. THIS 332 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:21,561 DATA CENTER EXPANSION 333 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:22,795 WOULD ONLY FURTHER THOSE ISSUES. 334 00:09:22,795 --> 00:09:24,363 AND ULTIMATELY I'M ASKING YOU 335 00:09:24,363 --> 00:09:25,865 TO PREVENT THE MISUSE OF OUR 336 00:09:25,865 --> 00:09:28,534 LAND, OF OUR RESOURCES, AND TO 337 00:09:28,534 --> 00:09:28,768 SUPPORT 338 00:09:28,768 --> 00:09:31,137 YOUR CONSTITUENTS, AKA, YOUR 339 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:33,472 NUMBERS AND FUTURE SEATTLEITES. 340 00:09:33,472 --> 00:09:34,473 THANK YOU. 341 00:09:34,607 --> 00:09:35,908 >> OUR NEXT IN- PERSON 342 00:09:35,908 --> 00:09:38,611 SPEAKER WILL BE DARIUS FOLLOWED 343 00:09:38,611 --> 00:09:39,845 BY JODI 344 00:09:39,845 --> 00:09:40,880 AND 345 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:41,314 NEIL. 346 00:09:41,314 --> 00:09:41,614 >> HI. 347 00:09:41,614 --> 00:09:43,449 MY NAME IS -- I'M A 348 00:09:43,449 --> 00:09:44,583 SOFTWARE ENGINEER AND A MEMBER 349 00:09:44,583 --> 00:09:45,084 OF 350 00:09:45,084 --> 00:09:46,085 AMAZON EMPLOYEES FOR CLIMATE 351 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:46,352 JUSTICE. 352 00:09:46,352 --> 00:09:47,887 I'M PROUD TO LIVE IN A CITY 353 00:09:47,887 --> 00:09:50,022 WHERE EMPLOYEES 354 00:09:50,022 --> 00:09:51,223 WHO SPEAK OUT POLITICALLY ARE 355 00:09:51,223 --> 00:09:52,158 LEGALLY PROTECTED AGAINST 356 00:09:52,158 --> 00:09:52,458 RETALIATION 357 00:09:52,458 --> 00:09:53,359 BY THEIR EMPLOYERS. 358 00:09:53,359 --> 00:09:54,627 I BECAME AN ENGINEER BECAUSE 359 00:09:54,627 --> 00:09:56,128 BUILDING THINGS IS MY FAVORITE 360 00:09:56,128 --> 00:09:57,463 WAY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, BUT 361 00:09:57,463 --> 00:09:59,098 THE WAY TECH COMPANIES ARE 362 00:09:59,098 --> 00:09:59,365 BUILDING 363 00:09:59,365 --> 00:10:00,366 DATA CENTERS RIGHT NOW 364 00:10:00,366 --> 00:10:03,369 IS CREATING PROBLEMS. 365 00:10:03,369 --> 00:10:04,870 AEC FREQUENTLY HEARS 366 00:10:04,870 --> 00:10:06,973 FROM COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY 367 00:10:06,973 --> 00:10:10,376 IRRESPONSIBLE DATA CENTER 368 00:10:10,376 --> 00:10:11,444 BUILDOUTS ON THE EFFECTS 369 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:13,613 OF THEIR 370 00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:14,714 ELECTED LEADERS. ONE LEADER IN 371 00:10:14,714 --> 00:10:15,147 PENNSYLVANIA TOLD 372 00:10:15,147 --> 00:10:16,682 US, QUOTE, FEAR AND TERROR HAS 373 00:10:16,682 --> 00:10:17,650 GRIPPED OUR AREA. 374 00:10:17,650 --> 00:10:19,051 WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY'RE 375 00:10:19,051 --> 00:10:19,752 GOING TO STRIKE NEXT. 376 00:10:19,752 --> 00:10:22,355 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT SUPERVISOR TO 377 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:24,290 TALK TO, IS UNDER NDA, 378 00:10:24,290 --> 00:10:25,691 WHO HAS BEEN PAID OFF, ET 379 00:10:25,691 --> 00:10:25,925 CETERA. 380 00:10:25,925 --> 00:10:27,259 THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T 381 00:10:27,259 --> 00:10:29,161 RELY ON THESE COMPANIES TO 382 00:10:29,161 --> 00:10:29,629 REGULATE THEMSELVES. 383 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:30,963 SEATTLE NEEDS TO SET THE 384 00:10:30,963 --> 00:10:33,232 TERMS SO THE WAY ANY NEW DATA 385 00:10:33,232 --> 00:10:34,467 CENTERS GET BUILT HERE ACTUALLY 386 00:10:34,467 --> 00:10:34,667 MOVES 387 00:10:34,667 --> 00:10:36,535 US CLOSER TO THE FUTURE 388 00:10:36,535 --> 00:10:38,237 WE WANT. SOME IDEAS FOR THE CITY 389 00:10:38,237 --> 00:10:39,138 COUNCIL -- REQUIRE 390 00:10:39,138 --> 00:10:40,573 PUBLIC REPORTING OF WATER 391 00:10:40,573 --> 00:10:41,941 AND ELECTRICITY USAGE. 392 00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:44,076 DEMAND BIG DATA CENTERS PAY FOR 393 00:10:44,076 --> 00:10:45,978 100% ADDITIONAL RENEWABLE 394 00:10:45,978 --> 00:10:47,013 ENERGY CAPACITY, TRANSMISSION, 395 00:10:47,013 --> 00:10:48,648 AND STORAGE THAT STABILIZES THE 396 00:10:48,648 --> 00:10:51,217 GRID AND MAKES ELECTRICITY 397 00:10:51,217 --> 00:10:51,484 CHEAPER. 398 00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:53,386 BAN NDAs AND SHELL 399 00:10:53,386 --> 00:10:55,221 COMPANIES THAT HIDE WHO THE 400 00:10:55,221 --> 00:10:55,521 DEVELOPERS 401 00:10:55,521 --> 00:10:57,690 ARE, DISTRICT HEATING, JOB 402 00:10:57,690 --> 00:10:58,691 PROTECTIONS, WEATHERIZATION. 403 00:10:58,691 --> 00:11:00,092 THERE IS SO MUCH WE CAN 404 00:11:00,092 --> 00:11:01,360 DO. THERE IS A WORLD IN WHICH 405 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,862 MORE DATA CENTERS COULD BRING 406 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:05,231 US CLOSER TO A GOOD FUTURE, 407 00:11:05,231 --> 00:11:06,532 BUT IT WILL EXIST ONLY IF WE 408 00:11:06,532 --> 00:11:07,133 DREAM BIG 409 00:11:07,133 --> 00:11:08,000 AND KEEP THE POWER IN THE 410 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,137 HANDS OF THE PEOPLE. 411 00:11:11,270 --> 00:11:13,806 THANK YOU. 412 00:11:13,806 --> 00:11:16,242 >> OUR NEXT IN-PERSON PUBLIC 413 00:11:16,242 --> 00:11:18,511 SPEAKER IS JODI FOLLOWED BY 414 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:21,047 NEIL AND 415 00:11:21,047 --> 00:11:22,048 BRYAN. 416 00:11:22,048 --> 00:11:22,548 >> HI. 417 00:11:22,548 --> 00:11:24,550 HI, MY NAME'S JODI LINEMAN, 418 00:11:24,550 --> 00:11:28,120 AND I'M A RETIRED SCHOOL TEACH, 419 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:29,455 SO I HAVE A LOT OF CONCERNS 420 00:11:29,455 --> 00:11:29,688 ABOUT 421 00:11:29,688 --> 00:11:33,526 THE KIDS WHO ARE GRADUATING FROM 422 00:11:33,526 --> 00:11:36,062 COLLEGE RIGHT NOW AND THE 423 00:11:36,062 --> 00:11:37,163 INABILITY TO GET A JOB 424 00:11:37,163 --> 00:11:38,764 BECAUSE OF THESE DATA CENTERS 425 00:11:38,764 --> 00:11:39,031 AND A.I. 426 00:11:39,031 --> 00:11:40,132 MY DAUGHTER'S ONE OF THEM. 427 00:11:40,132 --> 00:11:41,667 SHE HAS TWO COLLEGE DEGREES 428 00:11:41,667 --> 00:11:43,736 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF 429 00:11:43,736 --> 00:11:45,571 WASHINGTON, NOT EVEN JOB 430 00:11:45,571 --> 00:11:46,038 INTERVIEWS 431 00:11:46,038 --> 00:11:46,305 COMING 432 00:11:46,305 --> 00:11:48,207 UP. AND HER FRIENDS, IT'S THE 433 00:11:48,207 --> 00:11:48,407 SAME 434 00:11:48,407 --> 00:11:52,044 WAY. I FEAR FOR THE FUTURE, AND 435 00:11:52,044 --> 00:11:52,211 I 436 00:11:52,211 --> 00:11:55,414 AM HOPING YOU VOTE FOR THIS 437 00:11:55,414 --> 00:11:57,616 MORATORIUM TO TAKE THE IMPACT 438 00:11:57,616 --> 00:11:59,618 ON SOCIETY THAT THESE DATA 439 00:11:59,618 --> 00:12:03,422 CENTERS AND A.I. ARE GOING 440 00:12:03,422 --> 00:12:07,059 TO HAVE. PERHAPS THE INTENTION 441 00:12:07,059 --> 00:12:08,894 RIGHT NOW 442 00:12:08,894 --> 00:12:09,895 ISN'T TO USE A.I., BUT IT 443 00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:11,630 COULD BECOME THAT, AND WE'LL 444 00:12:11,630 --> 00:12:14,233 SEE MORE JOB LOSSES, MORE KIDS 445 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:14,533 NOT ABLE 446 00:12:14,533 --> 00:12:17,636 TO FIND 447 00:12:17,636 --> 00:12:19,004 A JOB. MY SECOND CONCERN IS THE 448 00:12:19,138 --> 00:12:20,506 ENVIRONMENT. I HAVE WATCHED 449 00:12:20,506 --> 00:12:22,975 VIDEO AFTER VIDEO 450 00:12:22,975 --> 00:12:25,244 OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DATA 451 00:12:25,244 --> 00:12:26,879 CENTERS 452 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:27,680 NEAR THEIR HOMES. THEY TURN ON 453 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:29,615 THEIR FAUCETS AND 454 00:12:29,615 --> 00:12:30,182 BROWN WATER COMES OUT, AND 455 00:12:30,182 --> 00:12:32,818 THERE'S NOTHING THEY CAN DO FOR 456 00:12:32,952 --> 00:12:34,954 THAT. MY GRANDMOTHER, WHO DIED 457 00:12:34,954 --> 00:12:38,257 15 YEARS 458 00:12:38,257 --> 00:12:38,958 AGO, SURPRISINGLY ONE OF THE 459 00:12:38,958 --> 00:12:41,393 LAST THINGS SHE SAID TO 460 00:12:41,393 --> 00:12:44,096 ME IS NEVER FORGET WHAT A 461 00:12:44,096 --> 00:12:45,965 MIRACLEMIRACLE IT IS THAT A 462 00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:47,133 GLASS OF WATER -- 463 00:12:47,133 --> 00:12:48,968 SHE GOES WHAT A 464 00:12:48,968 --> 00:12:51,103 MIRACLE IT IS THAT YOU CAN HAVE 465 00:12:51,103 --> 00:12:52,204 A GLASS OF 466 00:12:52,204 --> 00:12:52,471 WATER. 467 00:12:52,471 --> 00:12:54,373 AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT 468 00:12:54,373 --> 00:12:57,510 THAT, AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW 469 00:12:57,510 --> 00:12:57,710 WHAT? 470 00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:58,644 WE HAVE FORGOTTEN. 471 00:12:58,644 --> 00:13:00,346 WE HAVE FORGOTTEN BECAUSE WE'RE 472 00:13:00,346 --> 00:13:03,282 USING SO MUCH WATER TO RUN A.I. 473 00:13:03,282 --> 00:13:06,051 WE DON'T NEED A.I. , BUT WE 474 00:13:06,051 --> 00:13:06,719 DO NEED WATER. 475 00:13:06,719 --> 00:13:09,622 WE NEED FOOD, WHICH OBVIOUSLY WE 476 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:12,391 NEED TO USE WATER FOR. 477 00:13:12,391 --> 00:13:15,094 FINALLY, I LOOKED INTO SOME -- 478 00:13:15,094 --> 00:13:17,129 I RESEARCHED SOME OTHER 479 00:13:17,129 --> 00:13:17,429 COUNTRIES, 480 00:13:17,429 --> 00:13:20,166 AND MANY COUNTRIES ARE PUTTING 481 00:13:20,166 --> 00:13:21,767 REGULATIONS ON THE EXPANSION OR 482 00:13:21,767 --> 00:13:23,402 BUILDING OF DATA CENTERS 483 00:13:23,402 --> 00:13:26,338 AND A.I. 484 00:13:26,338 --> 00:13:28,407 THANK 485 00:13:28,407 --> 00:13:28,607 YOU. 486 00:13:28,607 --> 00:13:30,376 >> OUR NEXT IN- PERSON SPEAKER 487 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:37,249 IS NEIL FOLLOWED BY BRYAN AND 488 00:13:37,249 --> 00:13:37,783 AUDRY. 489 00:13:37,917 --> 00:13:38,851 >> HI, MY NAME IS NEIL ANDERSON. 490 00:13:38,851 --> 00:13:40,452 AND IF YOU'D ASKED ME A YEAR 491 00:13:40,452 --> 00:13:40,686 AGO 492 00:13:40,686 --> 00:13:43,189 IF I SUPPORTED A DATA CENTER 493 00:13:43,189 --> 00:13:46,458 MORATORIUM I WOULD HAVE SAID NO. 494 00:13:46,458 --> 00:13:47,793 AT THAT TIME THE TECH 495 00:13:47,793 --> 00:13:48,661 COMPANIES SAID THEY WERE 496 00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:48,961 PLANNING TO 497 00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:50,095 BUILD THEM WITH A MASSIVE AMOUNT 498 00:13:50,095 --> 00:13:50,462 OF 499 00:13:50,462 --> 00:13:51,664 RENEWABLES WITH UTILITY 500 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,899 SCALE BATTERY STORAGE AND DEMAND 501 00:13:53,899 --> 00:13:55,000 RESPONSE CAPABILITY THAT WOULD 502 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,436 HELP STABILIZE THE GRID. 503 00:13:57,436 --> 00:13:59,972 THEY SAID THEY'D USE COLD 504 00:13:59,972 --> 00:14:02,341 LOOP SYSTEMS THAT WOULD LIMIT 505 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:03,442 WATER USE AND PROVIDE FREE 506 00:14:03,442 --> 00:14:03,709 HEATING 507 00:14:03,709 --> 00:14:04,810 TO NEARBY BUILDINGS. 508 00:14:04,810 --> 00:14:06,345 BUT IS THAT WHAT 509 00:14:06,345 --> 00:14:06,612 THEY DID? 510 00:14:06,612 --> 00:14:07,947 NO. INSTEAD THE MAJORITY OF 511 00:14:07,947 --> 00:14:09,615 THE POWER FOR DATA CENTERS BUILT 512 00:14:09,615 --> 00:14:11,016 IN THE PAST YEAR HAS COME FROM 513 00:14:11,016 --> 00:14:12,685 FOSSIL FUELS. 514 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:13,552 AND RATHER THAN BUILDING 515 00:14:13,552 --> 00:14:14,587 STATE-OF-THE- ART COOLING 516 00:14:14,587 --> 00:14:15,988 SYSTEMS, THEY'RE WASTEFULLY 517 00:14:15,988 --> 00:14:19,091 EVAPORATING HUNDREDS OF 518 00:14:19,091 --> 00:14:20,492 MILLIONS OF CLEAN WATER EVERY 519 00:14:20,492 --> 00:14:20,826 SINGLE 520 00:14:20,826 --> 00:14:23,195 DAY, THEY'VE EXTENSIVELY USED 521 00:14:23,195 --> 00:14:23,495 NDAs 522 00:14:23,495 --> 00:14:24,663 TO PREVENT THE PUBLIC 523 00:14:24,663 --> 00:14:25,664 FROM KNOWING HOW MUCH RESOURCES 524 00:14:25,664 --> 00:14:26,098 ARE BEING 525 00:14:26,098 --> 00:14:26,398 CONSUMED. 526 00:14:26,398 --> 00:14:28,033 THIS IS A CLIMATE AND 527 00:14:28,033 --> 00:14:30,035 EKE LOGICAL DISASTER, AND 528 00:14:30,035 --> 00:14:30,870 IT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE THEY'RE 529 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:32,705 IN SUCH A RUSH TO BUILD THESE 530 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:34,673 DATA CENTERS THAT THEY'RE 531 00:14:34,673 --> 00:14:36,141 NOT STOPPING TO HAVE 532 00:14:36,141 --> 00:14:38,010 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW THEY CAN 533 00:14:38,010 --> 00:14:38,344 BE 534 00:14:38,344 --> 00:14:39,712 INTEGRATED INTO THE 535 00:14:39,712 --> 00:14:41,113 GRID RESPONSIBLY. I ASK YOU 536 00:14:41,113 --> 00:14:42,414 DECLARE AN EMERGENCY 537 00:14:42,414 --> 00:14:44,083 ONE-YEAR MORATORIUM ON NEW DATA 538 00:14:44,083 --> 00:14:45,184 CENTERS SO THAT WE CAN 539 00:14:45,184 --> 00:14:45,851 START HAVING THESE 540 00:14:45,851 --> 00:14:46,652 CONVERSATIONS. THANK 541 00:14:46,652 --> 00:14:47,019 YOU. 542 00:14:47,019 --> 00:14:47,386 >> THANK 543 00:14:47,386 --> 00:14:47,786 YOU. 544 00:14:47,786 --> 00:14:49,722 >> OUR NEXT IN- PERSON SPEAKER 545 00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:57,663 IS BRYAN FOLLOWED BY AUDRY AND 546 00:14:57,796 --> 00:14:58,530 PAUL. 547 00:14:58,664 --> 00:14:59,265 >> HI. MY 548 00:14:59,265 --> 00:15:00,432 NAME IS BRYAN. I'M A DISPLACED 549 00:15:00,432 --> 00:15:01,033 TECH WORKER 550 00:15:01,033 --> 00:15:02,801 AND A LIFELONG ARTIST. 551 00:15:02,801 --> 00:15:06,672 I'M HERE TO SUPPORT RESOLUTION 552 00:15:06,805 --> 00:15:10,643 32204, AND THIS MORNING I 553 00:15:10,643 --> 00:15:11,944 COMMENTED MY SUPPORT FOR THE 554 00:15:11,944 --> 00:15:13,078 MORATORIUM ON DATA 555 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:14,079 CENTER CONSTRUCTION IN SEATTLE. 556 00:15:14,079 --> 00:15:16,248 WHEN I HEAR THAT THERE MAY BE 557 00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:19,852 PLANS FOR HYPERSCALE A.I. 558 00:15:19,852 --> 00:15:21,287 DATA CENTERS THAT WOULD GUZZLE 559 00:15:21,287 --> 00:15:21,487 UP 560 00:15:21,487 --> 00:15:24,089 MORE MEGAWATTS OF 561 00:15:24,089 --> 00:15:25,524 POWER, I TAKE THAT TO MEAN I 562 00:15:25,524 --> 00:15:26,292 WILL BE 563 00:15:26,292 --> 00:15:28,861 THE VICTIM OF MORE POWER 564 00:15:28,861 --> 00:15:29,128 OUTAGES. 565 00:15:29,128 --> 00:15:32,131 IN 2026 ALONE I ALREADY HAD A 566 00:15:32,131 --> 00:15:34,700 POWER OUTAGE ON FEBRUARY 9th AND 567 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:37,369 ONE ON MARCH 13th, AND 568 00:15:37,369 --> 00:15:40,606 I'VE HAD MULTIPLE OUTAGES EACH 569 00:15:40,739 --> 00:15:43,909 YEAR BEFORE THAT WITH SEATTLE 570 00:15:43,909 --> 00:15:44,176 CITY 571 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:45,978 LIGHT. WE DON'T NEED MORE 572 00:15:45,978 --> 00:15:47,079 STRAIN ON THE 573 00:15:47,079 --> 00:15:50,482 GRID FOR TECHNOLOGY THAT MADE 574 00:15:50,482 --> 00:15:51,216 WASHINGTON HIGH 575 00:15:51,216 --> 00:15:57,790 SCHOOLERS VICTIMS OF DEEP FAKE 576 00:15:57,790 --> 00:15:57,990 APPS. 577 00:15:57,990 --> 00:15:59,758 WE DON'T NEED DATA 578 00:15:59,758 --> 00:16:01,393 CENTERS FOR A.I. TO DENY AND 579 00:16:01,393 --> 00:16:01,760 DELAY 580 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,330 MEDICARE TO WASHINGTON SENIORS. 581 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:06,398 THESE ARE REAL THINGS THAT 582 00:16:06,398 --> 00:16:08,167 HAPPENED. 583 00:16:08,167 --> 00:16:10,202 A.I. TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT 584 00:16:10,202 --> 00:16:11,337 NEED MORE MEGAWATTS. 585 00:16:11,337 --> 00:16:16,675 IT NEEDS MORE MEGA-REGULATION. 586 00:16:16,675 --> 00:16:19,144 I AM URGING THE CITY COUNCIL TO 587 00:16:19,278 --> 00:16:21,213 SUPPORT RESOLUTION 32204. 588 00:16:21,213 --> 00:16:21,747 THANK 589 00:16:21,747 --> 00:16:22,081 YOU. 590 00:16:22,081 --> 00:16:24,817 >> THANK YOU, BRYAN. 591 00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:27,319 HEY, BRYAN, CAN I ASK YOU 592 00:16:27,319 --> 00:16:28,253 A QUICK QUESTION? 593 00:16:28,253 --> 00:16:32,191 IS THAT THE NEW SAMSUNG 594 00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:32,424 FOLD 595 00:16:32,424 --> 00:16:34,526 PHONE? OH, BECAUSE IT 596 00:16:34,526 --> 00:16:35,995 LOOKED LIKE IT, AND I REALLY 597 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:39,131 WANT ONE SO -- 598 00:16:39,264 --> 00:16:40,866 >> NEXT IN-PERSON SPEAKER 599 00:16:40,866 --> 00:16:46,805 IS AUDRY 600 00:16:46,805 --> 00:16:47,206 FOLLOWED BY PAUL. 601 00:16:47,206 --> 00:16:49,475 >> HELLO, COUNCILMEMBERS. 602 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:51,810 I'M AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER 603 00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:53,846 SPECIALIZING IN POWER AND 604 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,749 RENEWABLE ENERGY AND I LIVE IN 605 00:16:56,749 --> 00:16:58,117 DISTRICT 2. 606 00:16:58,117 --> 00:16:59,818 I'VE BEEN HERE FOUR 607 00:16:59,818 --> 00:17:00,185 TIMES ALREADY. 608 00:17:00,185 --> 00:17:03,489 I SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM ON 609 00:17:03,489 --> 00:17:03,856 DATA CENTERS. 610 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:05,391 RIGHT NOW I WANT TO PULL 611 00:17:05,391 --> 00:17:07,760 YOUR ATTENTION TO AMENDMENT 612 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,628 1 THAT WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT 613 00:17:09,628 --> 00:17:09,995 TODAY, 614 00:17:09,995 --> 00:17:11,697 YOU'LL BE VOTING ON TODAY WHICH 615 00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:12,965 IS TO ALLOW EXISTING 616 00:17:12,965 --> 00:17:15,634 DATA CENTERS WITHIN SEATTLE TO 617 00:17:15,634 --> 00:17:17,269 EXPANDEXPAND THEIR CAPACITY BY 618 00:17:17,269 --> 00:17:17,803 UP 619 00:17:17,803 --> 00:17:19,438 TO 620 00:17:19,438 --> 00:17:21,006 APPROXIMATELY 20 MEGAWATTS, AND 621 00:17:21,006 --> 00:17:23,008 I WANT COUNCIL TO CONSIDER 622 00:17:23,008 --> 00:17:24,042 POTENTIALLY AMENDING IT 623 00:17:24,042 --> 00:17:26,512 FURTHER AND TO BE VERY CAREFUL 624 00:17:26,512 --> 00:17:27,046 WE'RE 625 00:17:27,046 --> 00:17:28,614 NOT CREATING LOOPHOLES FOR BIG 626 00:17:28,614 --> 00:17:28,814 TECH 627 00:17:28,947 --> 00:17:30,949 COMPANIES. JUST A BACK OF THE 628 00:17:30,949 --> 00:17:31,517 NAPKIN 629 00:17:31,650 --> 00:17:34,453 CALCULATION. WE HAVE ABOUT 30 630 00:17:34,453 --> 00:17:35,454 TO 50 DATA CENTERS HERE IN 631 00:17:35,454 --> 00:17:35,721 SEATTLE. 632 00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:42,194 IF EACH OF THEM DID EXPAND 633 00:17:42,194 --> 00:17:42,861 AN ADDITIONAL 20 MEGAWATTS, THAT 634 00:17:42,861 --> 00:17:45,164 WOULD BE 600 MEGAWATTS, WHICH 635 00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:46,465 MAYBE DOESN'T MEAN 636 00:17:46,465 --> 00:17:48,600 ANYTHING, BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY 637 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:49,368 OVER HALF OF THE 638 00:17:49,368 --> 00:17:51,236 ENTIRE CITY OF SEATTLE'S 639 00:17:51,236 --> 00:17:51,937 CURRENT POWER USAGE. 640 00:17:51,937 --> 00:17:53,839 SO THAT WOULD BE A 641 00:17:53,839 --> 00:17:54,873 SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IF EACH 642 00:17:54,873 --> 00:17:55,074 DATA 643 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:56,308 CENTER WERE TO USE THAT 644 00:17:56,308 --> 00:17:56,608 CAPABILITY. 645 00:17:56,608 --> 00:17:58,177 AND TECH COMPANIES COULD, IN 646 00:17:58,177 --> 00:18:01,013 FACT, RENT THAT CAPACITY FROM 647 00:18:01,013 --> 00:18:01,246 THEM. 648 00:18:01,246 --> 00:18:04,283 SO I WANT TO CAUTION THE COUNCIL 649 00:18:04,283 --> 00:18:05,384 ABOUT MAKING SURE WE'RE 650 00:18:05,384 --> 00:18:06,885 NOT CREATING LOOPHOLES TO GET 651 00:18:06,885 --> 00:18:10,322 AROUND THE MORATORIUM IN THIS 652 00:18:10,456 --> 00:18:11,657 AMENDMENT. ADDITIONALLY, I 653 00:18:11,657 --> 00:18:12,391 WANTED TO ALSO SHARE WITH YOU 654 00:18:12,391 --> 00:18:12,825 I'VE BEEN 655 00:18:12,825 --> 00:18:15,394 POSTING A LOT ONLINE LATELY 656 00:18:15,394 --> 00:18:16,028 ABOUT THIS 657 00:18:16,028 --> 00:18:16,395 MORATORIUM. 658 00:18:16,395 --> 00:18:17,796 AND THE VIDEOS I'VE 659 00:18:17,796 --> 00:18:18,931 BEEN MAKE HAVING BEEN GETTING A 660 00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:19,431 LOT 661 00:18:19,431 --> 00:18:19,631 OF 662 00:18:19,631 --> 00:18:22,401 ATTENTION. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF 663 00:18:22,401 --> 00:18:23,035 PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY, AND 664 00:18:23,035 --> 00:18:23,302 COMMENTS 665 00:18:23,302 --> 00:18:24,002 THAT THEY'VE SHARED WITH ME 666 00:18:24,002 --> 00:18:25,904 THAT HAVE REALLY STOOD OUT IS A 667 00:18:25,904 --> 00:18:30,008 LOT OF PEOPLE ARE REALLY AMAZED 668 00:18:30,008 --> 00:18:31,610 THIS CITY COUNCIL IS DOING SO 669 00:18:31,610 --> 00:18:31,810 MUCH. 670 00:18:31,810 --> 00:18:34,079 YOU'VE RESPONDED TO NEARLY THE 671 00:18:34,079 --> 00:18:35,214 100,000 LETTERS THAT 672 00:18:35,214 --> 00:18:39,051 WERE SENT AND LISTENING TO ALL 673 00:18:39,051 --> 00:18:39,284 OF US. 674 00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:42,054 YES TO THE MORIER TOM, BUT MORE 675 00:18:42,187 --> 00:18:43,021 IMPORTANTLY KEEP SUPPORTING 676 00:18:43,021 --> 00:18:43,388 IT 677 00:18:43,388 --> 00:18:43,856 DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. 678 00:18:43,856 --> 00:18:46,258 >> YES, WE WILL. 679 00:18:46,391 --> 00:18:48,560 >> THANK YOU. 680 00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:52,965 >> OUR NEXT IN- PERSON SPEAKER 681 00:18:52,965 --> 00:18:54,333 IS PAUL FOLLOWED BY -- 682 00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:55,267 >> THAT'S ANNOYING. 683 00:18:55,267 --> 00:18:56,935 SO THAT'S THE SOUND OF A 684 00:18:56,935 --> 00:18:57,503 DATA CENTER. 685 00:18:57,636 --> 00:19:02,541 HOW LOUD? 93 DECIBELS OUTSIDE OF 686 00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:02,808 VIRGINIA. 687 00:19:02,808 --> 00:19:05,544 THIS KIND OF THING CAN BE HEARD 688 00:19:05,677 --> 00:19:07,412 UP TO 2 MILES AWAY, AND 689 00:19:07,412 --> 00:19:09,715 THIS 690 00:19:09,715 --> 00:19:10,349 KIND OF CONSTANT NOISE ACCORDING 691 00:19:10,349 --> 00:19:14,453 TO THE CDC CAN CREATE STRESS, 692 00:19:14,586 --> 00:19:15,888 ANXIETY. SOMETHING YOU DON'T 693 00:19:15,888 --> 00:19:16,288 HEAR BUT 694 00:19:16,288 --> 00:19:17,022 YOU FEEL IT. 695 00:19:17,022 --> 00:19:18,056 IT'S LIKE A BUZZ. 696 00:19:18,056 --> 00:19:20,993 IT CAN BE FELT UP TO 5 MILES 697 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:21,326 AWAY. 698 00:19:21,326 --> 00:19:23,595 AND THIS KIND OF HARM IS 699 00:19:23,595 --> 00:19:25,030 NOT COVERED BY ZONING RULES 700 00:19:25,030 --> 00:19:25,564 BECAUSE IT'S 701 00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:27,499 NOT SOUND. IT'S THE TYPE OF 702 00:19:27,499 --> 00:19:27,799 REASON WHY 703 00:19:27,799 --> 00:19:30,102 WE NEED MORATORIUMS TO TACKLE 704 00:19:30,102 --> 00:19:33,071 THESE KIND OF NEW ISSUES. 705 00:19:33,071 --> 00:19:37,643 THE ISSUE OF HEAT, 3.6 -- 706 00:19:37,643 --> 00:19:39,945 ON AVERAGE ON INCREASE OF 3. 707 00:19:39,945 --> 00:19:41,647 6 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT LOCALLY 708 00:19:41,647 --> 00:19:43,382 DUE TO 709 00:19:43,382 --> 00:19:46,351 DATA CENTERS. SOMETIMES UP TO A 710 00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:46,685 16- 711 00:19:46,685 --> 00:19:47,085 DEGREE INCREASE. 712 00:19:47,085 --> 00:19:48,654 AND THESE KIND OF EFFECTS 713 00:19:48,654 --> 00:19:50,489 CAN STRETCH AS FAR AS 6 MILES 714 00:19:50,489 --> 00:19:50,689 AWAY. 715 00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:54,526 SO YOU ALREADY KNOW 716 00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:56,028 MORATORIUM VERY IMPORTANT. 717 00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:57,396 AND OTHER BAD NEWS IS THIS 718 00:19:57,396 --> 00:19:59,798 WILL ONLY BE THE BEGINNING OF 719 00:19:59,798 --> 00:20:03,669 THE FIGHT BECAUSE THERE ARE 720 00:20:03,669 --> 00:20:04,403 ALTERNATIVES, AND HAS 721 00:20:04,403 --> 00:20:06,038 BEEN PROPOSING WHAT THEY 722 00:20:06,038 --> 00:20:08,507 CALL DISTRIBUTED DATA CENTERS. 723 00:20:08,507 --> 00:20:09,875 BASICALLY THEY WILL PUT 724 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:12,544 MINI DATA CENTERS ON THE SIDE OF 725 00:20:12,544 --> 00:20:15,280 HOMES AND PAY THE HOME OWNERS 726 00:20:15,414 --> 00:20:18,083 FOR THAT. SO INSTEAD OF HAVING 727 00:20:18,083 --> 00:20:18,450 DATA 728 00:20:18,450 --> 00:20:19,318 CENTERS, SOMETHING YOU WOULD 729 00:20:19,318 --> 00:20:21,153 REGULATE, WE HAVE MINI 730 00:20:21,153 --> 00:20:22,888 DATA CENTERS THAT CREATE THE 731 00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:24,423 SAME ISSUE BUT DILUTED 732 00:20:24,423 --> 00:20:25,691 THROUGHOUT THE 733 00:20:25,691 --> 00:20:26,325 CITY. 734 00:20:26,325 --> 00:20:29,494 SO THERE'S MORE WORK AFTER THIS 735 00:20:29,494 --> 00:20:31,430 MORATORIUM TO BE DONE 736 00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:32,931 BECAUSE THEY ARE FINDING WAYS TO 737 00:20:32,931 --> 00:20:33,098 -- 738 00:20:33,098 --> 00:20:35,767 FIRST THEY'RE TRYING TO OUTPACE 739 00:20:35,767 --> 00:20:36,635 GROWTH, WE KNOW IT. 740 00:20:36,635 --> 00:20:40,038 THEY'RE ALSO TRYING FINDING 741 00:20:40,038 --> 00:20:41,573 WAYS TO GO AROUND REGULATION 742 00:20:41,573 --> 00:20:42,341 THAT IS 743 00:20:42,474 --> 00:20:43,675 CURRENTLY SET. ON THE TOPIC I 744 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:44,176 WILL BE 745 00:20:44,176 --> 00:20:45,344 SENDING AN E- MAIL SO YOU CAN 746 00:20:45,344 --> 00:20:47,045 SEE THE 747 00:20:47,045 --> 00:20:47,379 PROJECT. 748 00:20:47,512 --> 00:20:49,248 >> THANK 749 00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:49,781 YOU. 750 00:20:49,781 --> 00:20:53,752 >> NEXT -- OUR NEXT IN- PERSON 751 00:20:53,885 --> 00:20:56,388 SPEAKER, AND THEN WE'LL BE GOING 752 00:20:56,388 --> 00:20:57,322 TO REMOTE PUBLIC SPEAKERS. 753 00:20:57,456 --> 00:20:58,991 >> HEY, PAUL, CAN YOU ANNOUNCE 754 00:20:58,991 --> 00:21:02,628 THE SPEAKERS CAN YOU WAIT 755 00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:02,894 UNTIL 756 00:21:02,894 --> 00:21:03,528 PEOPLE ARE DONE CLAPPING BECAUSE 757 00:21:03,528 --> 00:21:05,597 I CAN'T 758 00:21:05,597 --> 00:21:06,832 HEAR. GO AHEAD. 759 00:21:06,832 --> 00:21:07,799 I DIDN'T 760 00:21:07,799 --> 00:21:08,166 GET YOUR NAME. 761 00:21:08,166 --> 00:21:09,868 >> ALL OF YOU BETTER CLAP FOR 762 00:21:09,868 --> 00:21:11,536 ME OR I'M GOING TO BE UPSET. 763 00:21:11,536 --> 00:21:15,574 I'M THE ORGANIZATION CALLED 764 00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:19,044 SOAPBOX PROJECT WHERE PEOPLE 765 00:21:19,044 --> 00:21:19,745 GATHER EVERY SINGLE WEEK TO MAKE 766 00:21:19,745 --> 00:21:22,481 OUR CITY BETTER BECAUSE WE LOVE 767 00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:25,317 LIVING IN CITIES WITH PARKS AND 768 00:21:25,317 --> 00:21:27,052 SPACES AND OKAY TRANSIT, 769 00:21:27,052 --> 00:21:28,186 AND I WANT TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT 770 00:21:28,186 --> 00:21:28,787 FOR 771 00:21:28,787 --> 00:21:30,188 A DATA CENTER MORATORIUM. 772 00:21:30,188 --> 00:21:32,190 TO ME THIS -- FIRST OF ALL, YES 773 00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:33,725 TO EVERYONE'S COMMENTS THAT 774 00:21:33,725 --> 00:21:34,526 THEY MADE SO FAR. 775 00:21:34,526 --> 00:21:36,695 I THINK THAT THING ABOUT 776 00:21:36,695 --> 00:21:38,964 HOUSING WAS VERY APT AND HOW IT 777 00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:39,798 REALLY REFLECTS THAT THIS 778 00:21:39,798 --> 00:21:41,133 CONVERSATION IS NOT JUST TO ME 779 00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:42,000 ABOUT 780 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:42,200 DATA 781 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,135 CENTERS. IT'S ALSO ABOUT THE 782 00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:43,435 LEADERSHIP 783 00:21:43,435 --> 00:21:45,570 THAT WE HAVE TO EXIST IN THE 784 00:21:45,570 --> 00:21:46,471 CITY OF SEATTLE. 785 00:21:46,471 --> 00:21:48,740 BECAUSE A TYPE OF WORLD WE 786 00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:50,242 ARE CREATING NOW BECAUSE OF THE 787 00:21:50,242 --> 00:21:52,044 MANY TURNING POINTS WE'RE IN 788 00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:52,344 TECH 789 00:21:52,344 --> 00:21:53,578 LOGICALLY, ECLOGICALLY, 790 00:21:53,578 --> 00:21:54,980 THE DECISIONS WE MAKE AT THIS 791 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:57,549 POINT IN TIME WITH THIS COUNCIL, 792 00:21:57,549 --> 00:21:59,851 THESE ARE GOING TO AFFECT 793 00:21:59,851 --> 00:22:06,124 GENERATIONS TO COME IN A WAY 794 00:22:06,124 --> 00:22:07,359 THAT HAS NOT 795 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,027 BEEN THE CASE AT ANY OTHER TIME 796 00:22:09,027 --> 00:22:10,295 IN HISTORY. 797 00:22:10,295 --> 00:22:11,697 THESE MORATORIUMS MAKE 798 00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:12,030 A DIFFERENCE. 799 00:22:12,030 --> 00:22:13,198 THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO TALK 800 00:22:13,198 --> 00:22:14,499 ABOUT WAS THE POTENTIAL 801 00:22:14,499 --> 00:22:15,634 LOOPHOLE THAT COULD BE 802 00:22:15,634 --> 00:22:16,134 INTRODUCED BY 803 00:22:16,134 --> 00:22:16,301 THE 804 00:22:16,301 --> 00:22:18,603 AMENDMENT. I'M SURE 805 00:22:18,603 --> 00:22:19,337 EVERYONE'S FAMILIAR WITH THIS 806 00:22:19,337 --> 00:22:20,739 IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE 807 00:22:20,739 --> 00:22:21,940 A COOKIE CHILDHOOD STORY. 808 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:23,575 AND WE ALL KNOW 809 00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:25,043 THAT TECH COMPANIES ARE REALLY 810 00:22:25,043 --> 00:22:25,610 CREATIVE 811 00:22:25,610 --> 00:22:27,512 AT GETTING AROUND 812 00:22:27,512 --> 00:22:28,547 LOOPHOLES, GETTING AROUND 813 00:22:28,547 --> 00:22:29,915 AMENDMENTS, TAKING ADVANTAGE, 814 00:22:29,915 --> 00:22:31,817 EXPLOITING, AND HONESTLY BEING 815 00:22:31,817 --> 00:22:32,050 REALLY 816 00:22:32,050 --> 00:22:32,517 CREATIVE. 817 00:22:32,517 --> 00:22:34,519 SO I THINK THIS MORATORIUM, 818 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:35,754 THE OPPORTUNITY OVER THIS ONE 819 00:22:35,754 --> 00:22:37,255 YEAR NEEDS TO BE BEYOND 820 00:22:37,255 --> 00:22:38,890 JUST FIGHTING THE DATA CENTERS 821 00:22:38,890 --> 00:22:39,257 BUT CONTINUING 822 00:22:39,257 --> 00:22:41,326 TO ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC ON 823 00:22:41,326 --> 00:22:44,463 HOW WE CAN BUILD A STRONGER CORE 824 00:22:44,463 --> 00:22:46,064 TO DECIDE THE TYPE OF CITY 825 00:22:46,064 --> 00:22:48,500 THAT WE WANT TO LIVE IN BECAUSE 826 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:48,700 WE -- 827 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:49,634 WE CANNOT BE BULLIED. 828 00:22:49,634 --> 00:22:51,203 WE SHOULD NOT BE BULLIED. 829 00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:54,506 WE HAVE ELECTED COUNCIL SO THAT 830 00:22:54,506 --> 00:22:55,674 WE CAN HAVE A BODY 831 00:22:55,674 --> 00:22:57,442 THAT STANDS UP FOR US AND THE 832 00:22:57,442 --> 00:22:57,676 THINGS 833 00:22:57,676 --> 00:23:00,445 THAT WE WANT AS A CITY, SO I 834 00:23:00,445 --> 00:23:01,680 SUPPORT THE 835 00:23:01,813 --> 00:23:03,248 MOR MORATORIUM, AND I HOPE WE 836 00:23:03,248 --> 00:23:04,850 CAN MOVE CAREFULLY AS WE THINK 837 00:23:04,850 --> 00:23:06,017 ABOUT ANY PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. 838 00:23:06,017 --> 00:23:06,885 THANK 839 00:23:06,885 --> 00:23:07,085 YOU. 840 00:23:07,085 --> 00:23:09,955 >> THANK YOU. 841 00:23:10,088 --> 00:23:12,190 >> OUR NEXT IN-PERSON 842 00:23:12,190 --> 00:23:14,893 PUBLIC SPEAKER WILL BE -- 843 00:23:14,893 --> 00:23:15,193 FOLLOWED BY 844 00:23:15,193 --> 00:23:19,164 REMOTE PUBLIC SPEAKERS LUCY AND 845 00:23:19,364 --> 00:23:21,867 NATHAN. 846 00:23:21,867 --> 00:23:22,567 >> HI. 847 00:23:22,567 --> 00:23:26,004 I'M A DJ, MUSIC PRODUCER, 848 00:23:26,004 --> 00:23:27,773 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER, INDUSTRIAL 849 00:23:27,773 --> 00:23:29,174 DESIGNER, ALL SORTS OF THINGS. 850 00:23:29,174 --> 00:23:31,209 AND WHAT I REALLY WANT TO 851 00:23:31,209 --> 00:23:32,677 THINK OF MYSELF AS IS SOMEONE 852 00:23:32,677 --> 00:23:33,879 WHO WANTS TO SEE THIS WORLD 853 00:23:33,879 --> 00:23:34,513 BECOME 854 00:23:34,513 --> 00:23:35,046 A 855 00:23:35,046 --> 00:23:37,616 BETTER PLACE. I VISITED SEATTLE 856 00:23:37,616 --> 00:23:38,884 TEN YEARS AGO. 857 00:23:38,884 --> 00:23:41,620 I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE CITY 858 00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:43,255 THEN. IT ALWAYS STRUCK ME AS A 859 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,257 PLACE THAT COULD BE A SHINING 860 00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:45,557 BEACON 861 00:23:45,557 --> 00:23:48,026 FOR THE REST OF THIS COUNTRY ON 862 00:23:48,026 --> 00:23:51,663 WHAT WE CAN DO WHEN WE 863 00:23:51,663 --> 00:23:52,297 WORK TOGETHER. 864 00:23:52,297 --> 00:23:53,999 IT'S NO SECRET THAT BIG TECH IS 865 00:23:53,999 --> 00:23:56,868 ALL IN ON THESE DATA CENTERS, ON 866 00:23:56,868 --> 00:23:58,236 EXPANDING THEM IN THE WAYS 867 00:23:58,236 --> 00:24:01,406 THAT THEY WANT TO, NAMELY SHORT- 868 00:24:01,406 --> 00:24:01,606 TERM 869 00:24:01,606 --> 00:24:03,308 PROFITS OVER EVERYTHING ELSE. 870 00:24:03,308 --> 00:24:05,644 I STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS 871 00:24:05,644 --> 00:24:08,547 MORATORIUM SO THAT WE AS A CITY 872 00:24:08,547 --> 00:24:09,948 CAN DECIDE WHAT KIND OF 873 00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:16,588 FUTURE WE WANT TO BUILD 874 00:24:16,588 --> 00:24:16,888 TOGETHER. 875 00:24:16,888 --> 00:24:18,056 THERE'S SO MUCH -- WHEN I LOOK 876 00:24:18,056 --> 00:24:20,892 AT A DATA CENTER, I SEE SO 877 00:24:20,892 --> 00:24:21,626 MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL. 878 00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:22,494 THERE IS PLENTY OF 879 00:24:22,494 --> 00:24:24,963 OPPORTUNITY FOR THINGS TO BE 880 00:24:24,963 --> 00:24:25,297 INCORPORATED 881 00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:27,332 IF WE WANT TO DREAM BIG -- 882 00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:30,001 THINGS LIKE AGROPONICS WITH ALL 883 00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:30,168 OF 884 00:24:30,168 --> 00:24:32,838 THE EXCESS WATER THAT IS BEING 885 00:24:32,838 --> 00:24:34,673 USED. ACTUAL RENEWABLE ENERGY 886 00:24:34,673 --> 00:24:34,873 BEING 887 00:24:34,873 --> 00:24:36,875 ENFORCED, AND NOT JUST SIDE- 888 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:39,010 STEP THROUGH THE USE OF NATURAL 889 00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:40,679 GAS OR WHATEVER, OTHER FOSSIL 890 00:24:40,679 --> 00:24:42,781 FUELS THESE COMPANIES WANT. 891 00:24:42,781 --> 00:24:47,919 IN SHORT, I THINK THAT WITH THIS 892 00:24:47,919 --> 00:24:51,890 TIME TO ACTUALLY TAKE A BREATH, 893 00:24:51,890 --> 00:24:53,692 PAUSE, AND EXAMINE WELL- 894 00:24:53,692 --> 00:24:55,560 DESIGNED DATA CENTERS, IF THESE 895 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:56,061 ARE TO BE 896 00:24:56,061 --> 00:24:58,730 THE FUTURE OF WHAT OUR 897 00:24:58,730 --> 00:25:00,232 COUNTRY -- WHAT THE ECONOMY 898 00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:01,433 WILL BE GOING FORWARD ON, 899 00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:03,835 THEN WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT 900 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:04,035 THAT 901 00:25:04,035 --> 00:25:04,803 FUTURE SERVES SEATTLE AND 902 00:25:04,803 --> 00:25:07,205 THE PEOPLE IN IT, NOT JUST BIG 903 00:25:07,205 --> 00:25:07,873 TECH 904 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:10,942 COMPANIES. THANK 905 00:25:10,942 --> 00:25:11,276 YOU. 906 00:25:11,276 --> 00:25:13,511 >> THANK YOU. 907 00:25:13,645 --> 00:25:14,946 >> WE'LL NOW MOVE ONTO REMOTE 908 00:25:14,946 --> 00:25:17,048 SPEAKERS AND THEN COME BACK 909 00:25:17,048 --> 00:25:17,415 TO IN-PERSON. 910 00:25:17,415 --> 00:25:19,184 FIRST REMOTE SPEAKER IS GOING TO 911 00:25:19,184 --> 00:25:20,585 BE LUCY JOHNSON. 912 00:25:20,585 --> 00:25:22,787 IF YOU COULD PLEASE PRESS 913 00:25:22,787 --> 00:25:24,122 STAR SIX WHEN YOU HEAR THE 914 00:25:24,122 --> 00:25:31,162 PROMPT THAT YOU'VE BEEN 915 00:25:31,162 --> 00:25:32,097 UNMUTED. 916 00:25:32,097 --> 00:25:32,497 >> HELLO. 917 00:25:32,497 --> 00:25:34,399 MY NAME IS LUCY, AND I 918 00:25:34,399 --> 00:25:36,401 AM TESTIFYING IN FAVOR OF 919 00:25:36,401 --> 00:25:39,704 RESOLUTION 32204, A 920 00:25:39,704 --> 00:25:40,772 MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS. 921 00:25:40,772 --> 00:25:42,841 I'M A RECENT GRADUATE, WHO 922 00:25:42,841 --> 00:25:44,910 LIKE MANY OF MY PEERS IN 923 00:25:44,910 --> 00:25:46,711 MY GENERATION, IS CONCERNED 924 00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:46,912 ABOUT 925 00:25:46,912 --> 00:25:47,612 AFFORDABILITY, ESPECIALLY THE 926 00:25:47,612 --> 00:25:49,915 PRICE OF UTILITIES SUCH 927 00:25:49,915 --> 00:25:51,416 AS ELECTRICITY AND WATER, 928 00:25:51,416 --> 00:25:52,751 WHICH HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED TO 929 00:25:52,751 --> 00:25:55,287 INCREASE IN PRICE BECAUSE 930 00:25:55,287 --> 00:25:55,854 OF DATA CENTERS IN THE 931 00:25:55,854 --> 00:25:56,187 NEIGHBORHOODS 932 00:25:56,187 --> 00:25:56,521 AROUND THEM. 933 00:25:56,521 --> 00:25:57,522 AS A YOUNG PERSON I'M AFRAID 934 00:25:57,522 --> 00:25:58,823 OF BEING PRICED OUT OF THE 935 00:25:58,823 --> 00:26:00,992 CITY THAT I LOVE AND THAT I GREW 936 00:26:00,992 --> 00:26:01,192 UP 937 00:26:01,192 --> 00:26:02,961 IN. ADDITIONALLY, AS A FIVE- 938 00:26:02,961 --> 00:26:04,329 YEAR VOLUNTEER FOR SEATTLE AREA 939 00:26:04,329 --> 00:26:05,931 PARKS, I BELIEVE THAT THERE 940 00:26:05,931 --> 00:26:07,799 ARE BETTER USES FOR OUR LIMITED 941 00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:09,200 LAND SUCH AS PUBLIC SPACES AND 942 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:09,634 MORE PARKS. 943 00:26:09,634 --> 00:26:12,270 I LOVE THIS 944 00:26:12,270 --> 00:26:13,004 CITY, AND I HOPE TO EBOO ABLE TO 945 00:26:13,004 --> 00:26:13,805 SPEND MY ADULT 946 00:26:13,805 --> 00:26:14,773 YEARS IN HERE WITHOUT 947 00:26:14,773 --> 00:26:15,507 BEING PRICED OUT. 948 00:26:15,507 --> 00:26:16,908 I HOPE YOU CAN SUPPORT 949 00:26:16,908 --> 00:26:23,315 YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE ME BYPASSING 950 00:26:23,315 --> 00:26:23,648 THIS 951 00:26:23,648 --> 00:26:23,949 MORATORIUM. 952 00:26:23,949 --> 00:26:24,249 THANK YOU. 953 00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:25,717 >> THE NEXT REMOTE SPEAKER 954 00:26:25,717 --> 00:26:28,253 WILL BE NATHAN FOLLOWED BY 955 00:26:28,253 --> 00:26:29,454 HANNAH 956 00:26:29,454 --> 00:26:30,455 AND 957 00:26:30,455 --> 00:26:31,156 PAT. PLEASE PRESS STAR SIX WHEN 958 00:26:31,156 --> 00:26:33,692 YOU HEAR THE PROMPT THAT YOU'VE 959 00:26:33,692 --> 00:26:35,327 BEEN 960 00:26:35,460 --> 00:26:35,727 UNMUTED. 961 00:26:35,727 --> 00:26:37,429 >> IS NATHAN THERE? 962 00:26:37,562 --> 00:26:40,699 >> NATHAN, PRESS STAR SIX IF 963 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:41,299 YOU CAN. 964 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:41,733 >> HI. 965 00:26:41,733 --> 00:26:42,901 MY NAME IS NATHAN. 966 00:26:42,901 --> 00:26:44,269 CAN YOU HEAR 967 00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:45,537 ME? 968 00:26:45,537 --> 00:26:46,438 >> 969 00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:46,738 YEP. 970 00:26:46,871 --> 00:26:51,376 >> GREAT. I'M A VOLUNTEER WITH 971 00:26:51,509 --> 00:26:53,778 SOAPBOX PROJECT SEATTLE AND 972 00:26:53,778 --> 00:26:54,980 WITH CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY, 973 00:26:54,980 --> 00:26:56,982 AND I'M ASKING THE COMMITTEE TO 974 00:26:56,982 --> 00:26:57,182 PASS 975 00:26:57,182 --> 00:26:59,250 RESOLUTION 32204 976 00:26:59,250 --> 00:27:00,051 RELATING TO DATA CENTERS. 977 00:27:00,051 --> 00:27:01,553 AS YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THESE 978 00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:03,888 AMENDMENTS, I HAVE A COUPLE OF 979 00:27:04,022 --> 00:27:05,290 THOUGHTS. PEOPLE IN SEATTLE HAVE 980 00:27:05,290 --> 00:27:05,824 A RIGHT 981 00:27:05,824 --> 00:27:09,227 TO FAIRLY PRICED ELECTRICITY. 982 00:27:09,227 --> 00:27:12,330 BUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS A 983 00:27:12,464 --> 00:27:13,131 LUXURY. WE WERE DOING JUST FINE 984 00:27:13,131 --> 00:27:13,365 WITHOUT 985 00:27:13,365 --> 00:27:14,699 IT, AND I SAY THIS AS 986 00:27:14,699 --> 00:27:17,335 SOMEONE WHO WORKS ON A.I. AT A 987 00:27:17,335 --> 00:27:17,535 A.I. 988 00:27:17,535 --> 00:27:18,203 STARTUP COMPANY. 989 00:27:18,203 --> 00:27:19,137 I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO 990 00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:20,739 HELP US THAT MUCH. 991 00:27:20,739 --> 00:27:23,441 DATA CENTERS DON'T BENEFIT 992 00:27:23,441 --> 00:27:23,708 PEOPLE. 993 00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:25,777 THEY BENEFIT CORPORATIONS. 994 00:27:25,777 --> 00:27:29,080 I SHOULD SAY UNREGULATED 995 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,348 DATA CENTERS BECAUSE THERE'S A 996 00:27:30,348 --> 00:27:32,751 CHANCE THAT WITH THE PROPER 997 00:27:32,751 --> 00:27:33,451 LEGAL 998 00:27:33,451 --> 00:27:35,220 FRAMEWORK DATA CENTERS 999 00:27:35,220 --> 00:27:36,388 COULD HELP THE CITY. 1000 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:37,889 I WANT TO UNDERLINE WHAT I 1001 00:27:37,889 --> 00:27:39,657 HEARD FROM DARIUS AND NEIL 1002 00:27:39,657 --> 00:27:42,327 BEFORE, THINGS LIKE BANNING 1003 00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:44,162 NDAs, REQUIRING NEW CLEAN ENERGY 1004 00:27:44,162 --> 00:27:44,329 TO 1005 00:27:44,329 --> 00:27:47,298 SUPPORT THE AMOUNT OFOF 1006 00:27:47,298 --> 00:27:48,533 THE DATA CENTER 1007 00:27:48,533 --> 00:27:50,268 USES, MONITORING WATER USAGE AND 1008 00:27:50,268 --> 00:27:50,535 SO FORTH. 1009 00:27:50,535 --> 00:27:52,837 THERE'S A WAY FOR IT TO HELP 1010 00:27:52,837 --> 00:27:53,004 THE 1011 00:27:53,004 --> 00:27:53,905 CITY, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE 1012 00:27:53,905 --> 00:27:54,472 COMPLICATED. 1013 00:27:54,472 --> 00:27:56,408 SO THANK YOU FOR 1014 00:27:56,408 --> 00:27:57,242 YOUR WORK TRYING TO FIGURE THIS 1015 00:27:57,242 --> 00:27:57,475 OUT, 1016 00:27:57,475 --> 00:27:58,910 AND THAT'S ALL I 1017 00:27:58,910 --> 00:27:59,244 GOT. 1018 00:27:59,244 --> 00:28:04,049 >> THANK YOU, NATHAN. 1019 00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:05,750 >> OUR NEXT REMOTE 1020 00:28:05,750 --> 00:28:06,951 SPEAKER WILL BE HANNAH FOLLOWED 1021 00:28:06,951 --> 00:28:10,055 BY PAT AND 1022 00:28:10,055 --> 00:28:10,422 CHRIS. 1023 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:15,226 >> DID YOU SAY HANNAH 1024 00:28:15,226 --> 00:28:15,660 OR ANNA? 1025 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:15,927 >> 1026 00:28:15,927 --> 00:28:16,261 HANNAH. 1027 00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:19,130 >> I DON'T SEE YOUR TILE. 1028 00:28:19,130 --> 00:28:22,267 THERE YOU ARE. 1029 00:28:22,267 --> 00:28:25,236 HI, 1030 00:28:25,236 --> 00:28:25,470 HANNAH. 1031 00:28:25,603 --> 00:28:26,971 >> HIGH. I SUPPORT RESOLUTION 1032 00:28:26,971 --> 00:28:27,205 32204. 1033 00:28:27,205 --> 00:28:29,374 I'M A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER 1034 00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:34,312 WHO'S LOVED WORKING, STUD KRG, 1035 00:28:34,512 --> 00:28:36,381 VOLUNTEERING AND BEING A PART OF 1036 00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:37,282 SEATTLE SOAPBOX. I'M VERY 1037 00:28:37,282 --> 00:28:39,217 CONCERNED ABOUT ANY 1038 00:28:39,217 --> 00:28:39,951 PROPOSAL TO BUILD LARGE DATA 1039 00:28:39,951 --> 00:28:42,053 CENTERS OUR CITY, AND STRONGLY 1040 00:28:42,053 --> 00:28:43,788 SUPPORT A MORATORIUM ON 1041 00:28:43,788 --> 00:28:44,022 DATA 1042 00:28:44,022 --> 00:28:45,457 CENTERS. WE'VE ALREADY SEEN HOW 1043 00:28:45,457 --> 00:28:45,657 THEY 1044 00:28:45,657 --> 00:28:46,491 HARMED OTHER COMMUNITIES SUCH 1045 00:28:46,491 --> 00:28:47,525 AS IN OREGON AND GEORGIA. 1046 00:28:47,525 --> 00:28:50,261 AND I TRULY WORRY ABOUT HOUSE 1047 00:28:50,261 --> 00:28:51,863 THESE CENTERS WILL AFFECT 1048 00:28:51,863 --> 00:28:53,531 OUR REGION POWER AND WATER 1049 00:28:53,531 --> 00:28:55,066 RESOURCES PARTICULARLY GIVEN THE 1050 00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:55,300 DROUGHT 1051 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,067 CONDITIONS OUR STATE HAS 1052 00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:58,303 BEEN FACING THE LAST FEW YEARS, 1053 00:28:58,303 --> 00:28:59,904 NOT TO MENTION THEY'RE LIKELY 1054 00:28:59,904 --> 00:29:01,539 TO LEAD TO HIGHER UTILITY 1055 00:29:01,539 --> 00:29:03,608 COSTS IN A CITY ALREADY 1056 00:29:03,608 --> 00:29:04,809 EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE TO LIVE IN, 1057 00:29:04,809 --> 00:29:06,277 WHICH REALLY JUST NEGATIVELY 1058 00:29:06,277 --> 00:29:06,511 IMPACTS 1059 00:29:06,511 --> 00:29:09,814 ALL OF US RESIDENTS. 1060 00:29:09,948 --> 00:29:15,253 I'M REALLY PROUD SEATTLE IS 1061 00:29:15,253 --> 00:29:17,555 A CITY -- A MORATORIUM 1062 00:29:17,555 --> 00:29:19,424 WOULD GIVE US MORE TIME TO 1063 00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:20,925 PRESENT NECESSARY SAFE GUARDS 1064 00:29:20,925 --> 00:29:22,927 AND REZULATIONS AND 1065 00:29:22,927 --> 00:29:23,962 ENSURE TRANSPARENCY TO 1066 00:29:23,962 --> 00:29:24,996 PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES BOTH IN 1067 00:29:24,996 --> 00:29:25,196 THE 1068 00:29:25,196 --> 00:29:29,200 PRESENT AND FOR THE FUTURE. 1069 00:29:29,334 --> 00:29:30,335 THANK YOU. 1070 00:29:30,335 --> 00:29:31,336 >> OUR NEXT REMOTE SPEAKER 1071 00:29:31,336 --> 00:29:33,872 WILL BE PAT FOLLOWED BY CHRIS 1072 00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:34,038 AND 1073 00:29:34,038 --> 00:29:34,606 DAVID. 1074 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,675 PAT, IF YOU CAN PRESS 1075 00:29:37,675 --> 00:29:38,076 STAR SIX. 1076 00:29:38,076 --> 00:29:42,380 >> PAT? 1077 00:29:42,514 --> 00:29:49,554 >> YEAH, I'M PAT, A 1078 00:29:49,554 --> 00:29:53,024 LIFELONG WASHINGTONIAN AND GEEK 1079 00:29:53,024 --> 00:29:53,224 FROM 1080 00:29:53,224 --> 00:29:53,691 DISTRICT 1. 1081 00:29:53,691 --> 00:29:56,094 JUST READING OVER THE 1082 00:29:56,094 --> 00:29:57,862 AMENDMENTS AND WITHOUT GETTING A 1083 00:29:57,862 --> 00:29:59,030 LITTLE NITPICKY WITH THE 1084 00:29:59,030 --> 00:29:59,297 LANGUAGE, 1085 00:29:59,297 --> 00:30:01,232 I HOPE IT'S NOT THERE TO MAKE 1086 00:30:01,232 --> 00:30:02,500 DATA CENTER LOBBYISTS FEEL 1087 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:03,134 BETTER 1088 00:30:03,134 --> 00:30:04,702 ABOUT THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS. 1089 00:30:04,702 --> 00:30:08,239 BUT OVERALL I THINK THAT THE 1090 00:30:08,239 --> 00:30:09,774 AMENDMENTS, ALSO I 1091 00:30:09,774 --> 00:30:10,708 UNDERSTAND ALLOWING SOME 1092 00:30:10,708 --> 00:30:11,376 EXPANSION 1093 00:30:11,376 --> 00:30:13,044 OF EXISTING ONES BUT ALSO 1094 00:30:13,044 --> 00:30:14,479 WORRY ABOUT LOOPHOLES. 1095 00:30:14,479 --> 00:30:18,216 BUT I REALLY LIKE THE 1096 00:30:18,216 --> 00:30:20,451 ADDITION OF RECOGNIZING THE 1097 00:30:20,451 --> 00:30:22,987 CUMULATIVE IMPACTS BEYOND ANY 1098 00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:23,354 INDIVIDUAL 1099 00:30:23,354 --> 00:30:23,688 PROJECT. 1100 00:30:23,688 --> 00:30:24,589 THAT'S OBVIOUSLY REALLY 1101 00:30:24,589 --> 00:30:26,758 IMPORTANT 1102 00:30:26,758 --> 00:30:27,559 BECAUSE THE SYSTEM CAN ONLY 1103 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:28,493 TOLERATE 1104 00:30:28,493 --> 00:30:30,128 SO MUCH. SO KEEPING THAT BROAD 1105 00:30:30,128 --> 00:30:30,695 VIEW IS 1106 00:30:30,828 --> 00:30:32,096 REALLY IMPORTANT. I WAS ALSO 1107 00:30:32,096 --> 00:30:34,833 HAPPY TO SEE THE LINE 1108 00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:38,436 AT THE ENDEND INDEED 1109 00:30:38,436 --> 00:30:43,808 ANY DATA CENTERS THAT HAVE 1110 00:30:43,808 --> 00:30:45,043 FUTURE PROJECTS PROJECTS ARE 1111 00:30:45,043 --> 00:30:45,844 GOING TO BE 1112 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:47,245 IMPACTING OUR NEIGHBORING 1113 00:30:47,245 --> 00:30:51,616 CITIES AND ALL ACROSS 1114 00:30:51,616 --> 00:30:51,916 WASHINGTON. 1115 00:30:51,916 --> 00:30:53,718 VERY MUCH IN SUPPORT OF THE 1116 00:30:53,718 --> 00:30:54,452 MORATORIUM, TOO. 1117 00:30:54,452 --> 00:30:56,120 I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE LED WITH 1118 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:56,688 THAT. 1119 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:58,156 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING 1120 00:30:58,156 --> 00:31:04,229 ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO 1121 00:31:04,229 --> 00:31:04,762 SPEAK. 1122 00:31:04,762 --> 00:31:06,231 >> OUR NEXT REMOTE SPEAKER 1123 00:31:06,231 --> 00:31:09,167 WILL BE CHRIS FOLLOWED BY DAVID 1124 00:31:09,167 --> 00:31:09,634 AND 1125 00:31:09,634 --> 00:31:10,602 ALBERTO. 1126 00:31:10,602 --> 00:31:11,936 CHRIS, IF YOU CAN 1127 00:31:11,936 --> 00:31:18,109 PRESS STAR SIX. 1128 00:31:18,243 --> 00:31:20,545 >> HI, I'M CHRIS. 1129 00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:22,413 I LIVE IN WEST SEATTLE. 1130 00:31:22,413 --> 00:31:24,549 I'M A LONG- TERM 1131 00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:25,283 SEATTLE RESIDENT. 1132 00:31:25,283 --> 00:31:27,852 I'M A CLIMATE JUSTICE ADVOCATE 1133 00:31:27,852 --> 00:31:29,654 ENERGY NERD AND HERE 1134 00:31:29,654 --> 00:31:33,925 WITH SOAPBOX PROJECT AND 360 1135 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:34,192 SEATTLE. 1136 00:31:34,192 --> 00:31:37,195 RESOLUTION 32204 AND DATA 1137 00:31:37,195 --> 00:31:38,796 CENTERS, TECH REALLY LIKES 1138 00:31:38,796 --> 00:31:39,731 TO MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS, 1139 00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:41,799 WHICH IS FINE 1140 00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:43,501 WITH SOFTWARE. IN CONTRAST DATA 1141 00:31:43,501 --> 00:31:47,939 CENTERS THREATEN TO BREAK OUR 1142 00:31:47,939 --> 00:31:48,373 PUBLIC 1143 00:31:48,373 --> 00:31:50,541 INFRASTRUCTURE. NEVER MIND THE 1144 00:31:50,541 --> 00:31:51,042 NEEDS OF LARGE 1145 00:31:51,042 --> 00:31:52,977 SCALE DATA CENTERS. 1146 00:31:52,977 --> 00:31:54,345 DROUGHTS ARE REDUCING 1147 00:31:54,345 --> 00:31:56,648 WATER FLOWS, WHICH REDUCES OUR 1148 00:31:56,648 --> 00:31:57,215 POWER 1149 00:31:57,348 --> 00:31:59,450 OUTPUT. AND THE BONNIVILLE POWER 1150 00:31:59,450 --> 00:32:00,084 ADMINISTRATION IS OUT 1151 00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:03,922 OF CAPACITY FOR THE CITY DEMAND 1152 00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:06,491 TO CALL ON SUCH AS COLD SNAPS 1153 00:32:06,491 --> 00:32:06,658 AND 1154 00:32:06,658 --> 00:32:08,226 HEAT WAVES. 1155 00:32:08,226 --> 00:32:09,961 THEY DON'T PROVIDE 1156 00:32:09,961 --> 00:32:11,062 EMPLOYMENT, THEY DON'T PROVIDE 1157 00:32:11,062 --> 00:32:11,362 HOUSING. 1158 00:32:11,362 --> 00:32:13,932 THEY DON'T PROVIDE ANY 1159 00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:14,565 ECONOMICECONOMIC OR RESOURCES 1160 00:32:14,565 --> 00:32:21,472 AT ALL FOR THE CITY ITSELF TO 1161 00:32:21,472 --> 00:32:23,141 USE. ADDITIONALLY, LOOKING OUT A 1162 00:32:23,141 --> 00:32:23,341 YEAR 1163 00:32:23,341 --> 00:32:25,310 AHEAD WE COULD SEE THIS A.I. 1164 00:32:25,310 --> 00:32:26,311 BUBBLE POTENTIALLY BURST, AND 1165 00:32:26,311 --> 00:32:27,578 THEN WE'LL BE LEFT WITH WHAT? 1166 00:32:27,578 --> 00:32:29,847 DATA CENTERS THAT ARE 1167 00:32:29,847 --> 00:32:30,915 UNDERUTILIZED, 1168 00:32:30,915 --> 00:32:32,050 THAT WERE BUILT AND NOW ARE 1169 00:32:32,050 --> 00:32:32,817 SOMEONE 1170 00:32:32,817 --> 00:32:33,084 ELSE'S 1171 00:32:33,084 --> 00:32:34,786 PROBLEM? SO THERE'S SO MANY 1172 00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:35,019 FACTORS 1173 00:32:35,019 --> 00:32:38,523 TO CONSIDER, AND I KNOW THERE'S 1174 00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:40,792 SO MANY FACTS ALREADY SHARED, 1175 00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:41,192 BUT, YEAH. 1176 00:32:41,192 --> 00:32:43,227 YOU KNOW, REALLY THINK ABOUT 1177 00:32:43,227 --> 00:32:45,029 THE FACT THAT THEY CONSUME 1178 00:32:45,029 --> 00:32:46,464 RESOURCES WITHOUT PRODUCING 1179 00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:47,799 BENEFITS. 1180 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:48,900 AND THANK 1181 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:49,100 YOU. 1182 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:55,139 >> THANK YOU, 1183 00:32:55,139 --> 00:32:55,606 CHRIS. 1184 00:32:55,606 --> 00:32:57,308 >> OUR NEXT REMOTE SPEAKER 1185 00:32:57,308 --> 00:32:59,644 WILL BE DAVID FOLLOWED BY 1186 00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:05,683 ALBERTO AND 1187 00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:06,250 ELON. 1188 00:33:06,250 --> 00:33:07,952 >> ELON, OKAY. 1189 00:33:08,086 --> 00:33:09,554 >> LAST NAME IS NOT 1190 00:33:09,554 --> 00:33:09,754 MUSK. 1191 00:33:09,754 --> 00:33:19,630 >> THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO 1192 00:33:19,764 --> 00:33:20,732 SAY. 1193 00:33:20,732 --> 00:33:22,333 >> DAVID, ARE YOU THERE? 1194 00:33:22,467 --> 00:33:24,202 >> HI, THANK YOU. 1195 00:33:24,202 --> 00:33:25,303 HEY, COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ, 1196 00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:26,871 YOU KNOW HOW THERE'S A FAILURE 1197 00:33:26,871 --> 00:33:27,305 WITH 1198 00:33:27,305 --> 00:33:28,740 THE POLICE CHIEF TO 1199 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:30,008 HELP SOLVE THE CRISIS AT THE 1200 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:30,308 PARKS, AND 1201 00:33:30,308 --> 00:33:31,376 HE'S DECIDESED HE'S GOING 1202 00:33:31,376 --> 00:33:32,610 TO SHUTDOWN THE PARKS AND RUIN 1203 00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:33,745 IT FOR EVERYBODY AND 1204 00:33:33,745 --> 00:33:35,513 START ENFORCING TICKETING ON 1205 00:33:35,513 --> 00:33:37,248 THE LAW-ABIDING 1206 00:33:37,248 --> 00:33:37,882 COMMUNITY WHO WANTS TO EXERCISE 1207 00:33:37,882 --> 00:33:38,216 THEIR FREEDOM 1208 00:33:38,216 --> 00:33:39,650 AND LIBERTY TO GO FOR A WALK 1209 00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:39,851 LATE 1210 00:33:39,851 --> 00:33:40,885 AT NIGHT CHECKING OUT THE STARS? 1211 00:33:40,885 --> 00:33:42,653 BUT YET THE POLICE CHIEF 1212 00:33:42,653 --> 00:33:44,489 REFUSES TO DEAL WITH ALL THE 1213 00:33:44,489 --> 00:33:45,523 EVIL PREDATORS THAT KEEP 1214 00:33:45,523 --> 00:33:47,458 TRAFFICKING AND PUSHING AND RIDE 1215 00:33:47,458 --> 00:33:47,792 AROUND 1216 00:33:47,792 --> 00:33:48,626 IN STOLEN VEHICLES. 1217 00:33:48,626 --> 00:33:50,762 WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP WITH IT 1218 00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:52,230 POLICE CHIEF. 1219 00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:54,799 AND, SEPARATELY, I THINK 1220 00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:56,167 Y'ALL NEED TO ADDRESS THE 1221 00:33:56,167 --> 00:33:56,434 TRANSFER 1222 00:33:56,434 --> 00:33:57,835 LINES, THE TRANSMISSION LINES. 1223 00:33:57,835 --> 00:33:59,337 YOU KNOW ALL THOSE HIGH WIRES 1224 00:33:59,337 --> 00:34:01,539 THAT LOOK LIKE 1225 00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:03,307 MODERN THIRD-WORLD VENEZUELA 1226 00:34:03,307 --> 00:34:03,541 HANGING 1227 00:34:03,541 --> 00:34:04,742 OUTSIDE PEOPLE'S 1228 00:34:04,742 --> 00:34:05,877 APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN SEATTLE 1229 00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:07,645 LIKE WITH A 1230 00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:08,880 CONSUMPTION MALFUNCTION 1231 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,348 THAT WASTES A LOT OF ENERGY? 1232 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:11,549 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A 1233 00:34:11,549 --> 00:34:12,817 TRANSFER STATION IN FREMONT, 1234 00:34:12,817 --> 00:34:13,184 RIGHT 1235 00:34:13,184 --> 00:34:16,888 NEAR THE FREMONT BREWERY ONE OR 1236 00:34:16,888 --> 00:34:17,054 TWO 1237 00:34:17,054 --> 00:34:18,823 BLOCKS AWAY, AND EVERY ONCE IN 1238 00:34:18,823 --> 00:34:21,526 A WHILE IT EXPLODES WITH AN 1239 00:34:21,526 --> 00:34:22,326 OVER-PRESSURIZED 1240 00:34:22,326 --> 00:34:23,828 NEED TO SHARE MORE HOUSING WITH 1241 00:34:23,828 --> 00:34:24,228 MORE 1242 00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:25,430 ENERGY, AND YET NONE OF THOSE 1243 00:34:25,430 --> 00:34:25,630 ROADS 1244 00:34:25,630 --> 00:34:28,900 HAVE BEEN BLOCKED OFF SO PEOPLE 1245 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:29,700 CAN'T DRIVE THROUGH. 1246 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:32,370 IT SEEMS WHEN YOU HAVE A 1247 00:34:32,370 --> 00:34:34,939 CONSHUCHL SOMEONE MALFUNCTION 1248 00:34:34,939 --> 00:34:37,175 TO IT GETS TO SOME RUN DOWN 1249 00:34:37,175 --> 00:34:38,142 PIECE OF REAL ESTATE, IT'S 1250 00:34:38,142 --> 00:34:39,510 CONSUMING AND WASTING MORE 1251 00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:40,211 ENERGY 1252 00:34:40,211 --> 00:34:42,547 THAN THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE 1253 00:34:42,547 --> 00:34:42,814 BUILDING 1254 00:34:42,814 --> 00:34:44,248 THAT'S ALLOWED TO USE 1255 00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:46,050 BECAUSE SEATTLE HAS ALL THESE 1256 00:34:46,050 --> 00:34:46,284 APT 1257 00:34:46,284 --> 00:34:49,387 WAITED, OUT DATED, 1258 00:34:49,387 --> 00:34:49,954 DILAPIDATED REAL ESTATE. 1259 00:34:49,954 --> 00:34:51,022 BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE 1260 00:34:51,022 --> 00:34:52,990 THE TRAIN DRIVING THROUGH THE 1261 00:34:52,990 --> 00:34:54,926 PARKS, GOLDEN GARDEN PARK, 1262 00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:56,260 MYRTLE EDWARDS PARK, THE 1263 00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:57,128 WHOLE COMMUNITY, THERE NEEDS TO 1264 00:34:57,128 --> 00:34:57,295 BE 1265 00:34:57,295 --> 00:34:58,229 AN ADDRESSING OF THE 1266 00:34:58,229 --> 00:34:59,630 TOXIC ENVIRONMENT THAT THE 1267 00:34:59,630 --> 00:35:02,200 WATERFRONT GETS CHOKED OFF FROM 1268 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:02,433 IT. 1269 00:35:02,433 --> 00:35:03,668 YOU ALL KEEP IGNORING. 1270 00:35:03,668 --> 00:35:05,703 YOU ALL ARE 1271 00:35:05,703 --> 00:35:06,971 JUST COPYCATTING WHAT OTHER 1272 00:35:06,971 --> 00:35:07,805 PEOPLE ARE 1273 00:35:07,805 --> 00:35:09,707 PUSHING INTO NATIONAL MEAD YOU 1274 00:35:09,707 --> 00:35:10,541 AND DISTRACTING FROM LOCAL 1275 00:35:10,541 --> 00:35:13,444 ISSUES THAT ALSO NEED TO BE 1276 00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:13,744 ADDRESSED 1277 00:35:13,744 --> 00:35:15,246 LIKE THE CONSUMPTION MALFUNCTION 1278 00:35:15,246 --> 00:35:16,481 OF THE COAL TRAIN. 1279 00:35:16,481 --> 00:35:19,217 WE GOT A CONGESTION PRICE 1280 00:35:19,217 --> 00:35:24,922 TAX, THE COAL CARS WATERFRONT 1281 00:35:25,056 --> 00:35:25,323 SEATTLE -- 1282 00:35:25,323 --> 00:35:27,024 >> OUR NEXT PUBLIC SPEAKER 1283 00:35:27,024 --> 00:35:32,763 WILL BE ALBERTO FOLLOWED BY 1284 00:35:32,763 --> 00:35:33,064 ELON. 1285 00:35:33,064 --> 00:35:39,036 ALBERTO, IF YOU CAN PRESS STAR 1286 00:35:39,036 --> 00:35:39,370 SIX. 1287 00:35:39,504 --> 00:35:40,338 >> ALBERTO? 1288 00:35:40,471 --> 00:35:41,072 >> I'M 1289 00:35:41,072 --> 00:35:47,311 HERE. THANK YOU. 1290 00:35:47,445 --> 00:35:49,680 THANK YOU. WHY ALLOW EXISTING 1291 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:50,314 DATA 1292 00:35:50,314 --> 00:35:52,683 CENTERS TO EXPAND DURING THE 1293 00:35:52,683 --> 00:35:52,984 MORATORIUM? 1294 00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:55,019 DATA CENTERS ARE A BAD DEAL FOR 1295 00:35:55,019 --> 00:35:58,656 OUR CITY, USING UP MORE POWER 1296 00:35:58,656 --> 00:35:59,490 COMPARED TO WHAT 1297 00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:01,425 SEVERAL THOUSAND HOMES WOULD 1298 00:36:01,425 --> 00:36:01,893 TYPICALLY USE. 1299 00:36:01,893 --> 00:36:05,196 INCREASING UTILITY 1300 00:36:05,196 --> 00:36:07,598 BILLS WOULD HURT FAMILIES AND 1301 00:36:07,598 --> 00:36:07,832 WORKING 1302 00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:10,835 PEOPLE ON SHRINKING 1303 00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:13,538 BUDGETS. THEY WON'T PROVIDE 1304 00:36:13,538 --> 00:36:14,172 ENOUGH 1305 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:15,540 LONG- TERM JOBS TO BUILD 1306 00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:15,706 OUR 1307 00:36:15,706 --> 00:36:18,109 COMMUNITIES. OUR TAXES WILL 1308 00:36:18,109 --> 00:36:22,346 SUBSIDIZE THEIR AND EXPANSION, 1309 00:36:22,346 --> 00:36:25,049 TRAINING OUR LOCAL WATER SUPPLY 1310 00:36:25,049 --> 00:36:28,886 AND SPEWING HOT EXHAUST THAT 1311 00:36:28,886 --> 00:36:30,588 WILL HARM OUR AIR QUALITY. 1312 00:36:30,588 --> 00:36:34,759 THESE DATA CENTERS ARE HI- TECH 1313 00:36:34,759 --> 00:36:38,362 MINING OPERATIONS WHERE 1314 00:36:38,362 --> 00:36:40,264 BILLIONAIRES AND A.I. COMPANIES 1315 00:36:40,264 --> 00:36:42,800 GET ALL THE PROFIT WHILE WE 1316 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,202 PAY WITH OUR RESOURCES, TAX 1317 00:36:45,202 --> 00:36:47,438 SUBSIDIES, UTILITY COSTS, 1318 00:36:47,438 --> 00:36:49,774 HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, 1319 00:36:49,774 --> 00:36:53,177 AND MORE. NO MATTER THE PROMISES 1320 00:36:53,177 --> 00:36:53,744 -- 1321 00:36:53,744 --> 00:36:54,779 NO MATTER THE PROMISES THEY 1322 00:36:54,779 --> 00:36:54,979 MAKE, 1323 00:36:54,979 --> 00:36:57,448 WE WILL END UP LOSING. 1324 00:36:57,448 --> 00:37:00,518 NO TO DATA CENTERS TODAY OR 1325 00:37:00,518 --> 00:37:00,885 EVER. 1326 00:37:00,885 --> 00:37:01,786 THANK YOU ALL AND HAVE 1327 00:37:01,786 --> 00:37:02,119 A GOOD DAY. 1328 00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:06,190 >> THANK YOU. 1329 00:37:06,324 --> 00:37:08,259 >> OUR NEXT REMOTE SPEAKER 1330 00:37:08,259 --> 00:37:10,595 WILL BE ELON ROBINSON FOLLOWED 1331 00:37:10,595 --> 00:37:10,761 BY 1332 00:37:10,761 --> 00:37:20,905 LAUREN 1333 00:37:24,508 --> 00:37:27,111 REDFIELD. 1334 00:37:27,111 --> 00:37:28,112 >> 1335 00:37:28,112 --> 00:37:28,579 ELON. 1336 00:37:28,579 --> 00:37:30,648 >> CAN YOU HEAR 1337 00:37:30,648 --> 00:37:31,582 ME? 1338 00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:33,084 >> IT'S 1339 00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:33,417 ELAN, SORRY. 1340 00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:35,920 >> YES, SOMEONE TOLD ME I 1341 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:36,387 SHOULD REBRAND. 1342 00:37:36,387 --> 00:37:37,355 SO MY NAME IS 1343 00:37:37,355 --> 00:37:38,923 ELAN. YUM HERE TO SPEAK IN FAVOR 1344 00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:40,658 OF THE DATA CENTER MORATORIUM. 1345 00:37:40,658 --> 00:37:42,226 I'M A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND 1346 00:37:42,226 --> 00:37:43,728 A RECENT GRADUATE FROM SEATTLE 1347 00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:44,528 CENTRAL COLLEGE. 1348 00:37:44,528 --> 00:37:46,264 MY CLASSMATES AND I 1349 00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:46,797 ARE GRADUATING CLASS 1350 00:37:46,797 --> 00:37:48,165 ARE EXPERIENCING A LOT OF JOB 1351 00:37:48,165 --> 00:37:48,733 INSECURITY AND ESPECIALLY 1352 00:37:48,733 --> 00:37:50,935 A LACK OF JUNIOR POSITIONS IN 1353 00:37:50,935 --> 00:37:51,502 OUR FIELD. 1354 00:37:51,502 --> 00:37:52,536 PARTIALLY AT LEAST BECAUSE 1355 00:37:52,536 --> 00:37:54,705 OUR WORK IS BEING 1356 00:37:54,705 --> 00:37:55,940 AUTOMATED BY-PRODUCTS THAT WERE 1357 00:37:55,940 --> 00:37:58,476 TRAINED WITHOUT CONSENT ON OUR 1358 00:37:58,476 --> 00:37:58,743 CREATIVE 1359 00:37:58,743 --> 00:38:00,978 WORK AND THAT OF 1360 00:38:00,978 --> 00:38:02,613 OUR PREDECESSORS IN OUR FIELD. 1361 00:38:02,613 --> 00:38:04,415 AND JUST AS THE A.I. 1362 00:38:04,415 --> 00:38:06,083 PRODUCTS LIKE THIS THAT ARE 1363 00:38:06,083 --> 00:38:07,184 EXTRACTING VALUES FROM OUR WORK 1364 00:38:07,184 --> 00:38:08,953 AND OUR 1365 00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:09,553 SKILLS, DATA CENTERS THAT 1366 00:38:09,553 --> 00:38:11,489 ARE BUILT FOR A.I. ARE 1367 00:38:11,489 --> 00:38:12,356 PILLAGING RESOURCES THAT SHOULD 1368 00:38:12,356 --> 00:38:16,927 BE FOR 1369 00:38:16,927 --> 00:38:17,228 THE PEOPLE. 1370 00:38:17,228 --> 00:38:20,398 AND THIS IS AMIDST A HISTORICAL 1371 00:38:20,398 --> 00:38:22,667 HOUSING CRISIS HERE IN 1372 00:38:22,667 --> 00:38:23,701 SEATTLE, AN AFFORDABILITY 1373 00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:24,235 CRISIS, AND 1374 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:27,071 NOT TO MENTION THE ENVIRONMENTAL 1375 00:38:27,071 --> 00:38:27,872 CRISIS THAT'S ONGOING. 1376 00:38:27,872 --> 00:38:29,440 AND IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE 1377 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:30,307 A WHOLE LOT OF SENSE TO ME. 1378 00:38:30,307 --> 00:38:31,742 ALL OF THIS TO BENEFIT 1379 00:38:31,742 --> 00:38:33,911 COMPANIES WHO ARE SELLING THESE 1380 00:38:33,911 --> 00:38:37,114 PRODUCTS THAT AUTOMATE JOBS, 1381 00:38:37,114 --> 00:38:37,815 SELLING OUR 1382 00:38:37,815 --> 00:38:40,818 PRIVACY, AND ALLOW THINGS TO 1383 00:38:40,818 --> 00:38:43,421 DISCRIMINATE THAT ALLOW PEOPLE 1384 00:38:43,421 --> 00:38:45,189 TO APPLY FOR NEEDED MEDICAL 1385 00:38:45,189 --> 00:38:45,489 PROCEDURES. 1386 00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:54,165 IN SEATTLE WE HAVE FOR THIS 1387 00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:55,900 MORATORIUM AND I'M PROUD 1388 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:56,534 WE'RE 1389 00:38:56,534 --> 00:38:57,435 CONSIDERING THIS. AND THANK YOU 1390 00:38:57,435 --> 00:39:00,137 SO MUCH. 1391 00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:00,805 >> THANK YOU. 1392 00:39:00,938 --> 00:39:02,373 >> OUR NEXT REMOTE SPEAKER 1393 00:39:02,373 --> 00:39:03,441 IS LAUREN REDFIELD. 1394 00:39:03,441 --> 00:39:04,942 SHE'S NOT CURRENTLY CALLED IN. 1395 00:39:04,942 --> 00:39:07,111 YOU WANT TO MOVE TO 1396 00:39:07,111 --> 00:39:07,578 IN-PERSON? 1397 00:39:07,578 --> 00:39:08,012 >> 1398 00:39:08,012 --> 00:39:08,245 YEAH. 1399 00:39:08,245 --> 00:39:09,380 >> LAUREN, IF YOU COULD 1400 00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:10,047 CALL BACK IN. 1401 00:39:10,047 --> 00:39:14,585 BACK TO IN- PERSON SPEAKERS 1402 00:39:14,585 --> 00:39:18,989 WE HAVE -- FOLLOWED BY PATRICK 1403 00:39:18,989 --> 00:39:24,061 AND 1404 00:39:24,261 --> 00:39:24,695 SARIAH. 1405 00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:27,264 >> DID WE GET THAT RIGHT? 1406 00:39:27,264 --> 00:39:30,634 SORRY, OKAY, THANK 1407 00:39:30,634 --> 00:39:31,635 YOU. 1408 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:32,503 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. 1409 00:39:32,503 --> 00:39:34,138 I AM AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER, 1410 00:39:34,138 --> 00:39:35,206 A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 7, 1411 00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:37,208 AND I WOULD LIKE TO VOCALIZE 1412 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:39,577 SUPPORT OF RESOLUTION 32204 ON 1413 00:39:39,577 --> 00:39:39,844 THE BASIS 1414 00:39:39,844 --> 00:39:41,746 OF TAKING TIME TO RESEARCH 1415 00:39:41,746 --> 00:39:44,281 THESE CENTERS AND THEIR LONG- 1416 00:39:44,281 --> 00:39:45,116 TERM 1417 00:39:45,116 --> 00:39:45,950 IMPACTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH 1418 00:39:45,950 --> 00:39:46,584 AND SAFETY. 1419 00:39:46,584 --> 00:39:48,119 AS AN ENGINEER I UNDERSTAND 1420 00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:49,253 WANTING TO PURSUE 1421 00:39:49,253 --> 00:39:50,387 PROGRESS, BUT AS AN ENGINEER I 1422 00:39:50,387 --> 00:39:51,455 TOOK AN OATH 1423 00:39:51,455 --> 00:39:52,590 DURING A CEREMONY MY 1424 00:39:52,590 --> 00:39:54,558 SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE, AND I 1425 00:39:54,558 --> 00:39:56,794 PLEDGED TO, 1426 00:39:56,794 --> 00:39:57,595 QUOTE, SERVE HUMANITY BY 1427 00:39:57,595 --> 00:39:59,263 MAKING THE BEST USE OF THE 1428 00:39:59,263 --> 00:40:00,331 EARTH'S PRECIOUS WEALTH, 1429 00:40:00,331 --> 00:40:00,598 UNQUOTE. 1430 00:40:00,598 --> 00:40:02,400 AND I THINK THAT MATTERS 1431 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,434 MORE THAN PROGRESS FOR THE SAKE 1432 00:40:03,434 --> 00:40:03,601 OF 1433 00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:04,135 PROGRESS. 1434 00:40:04,135 --> 00:40:05,703 I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU A 1435 00:40:05,703 --> 00:40:06,070 SHORT 1436 00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:07,338 STORY. I AM FROM MEMPHIS, 1437 00:40:07,338 --> 00:40:07,638 TENNESSEE. 1438 00:40:07,638 --> 00:40:09,640 MY FAMILY HAS RESIDED IN 1439 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:10,541 MEMPHIS FOR JUST ABOUT TEN 1440 00:40:10,541 --> 00:40:10,775 YEARS, 1441 00:40:10,775 --> 00:40:15,012 AND TWO YEARS AGO ELON MUSK AND 1442 00:40:15,012 --> 00:40:16,514 HIS 1443 00:40:16,514 --> 00:40:17,148 EX-A.I. COMPANY BROUGHT 1444 00:40:17,148 --> 00:40:19,183 THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIS A.I. 1445 00:40:19,183 --> 00:40:22,720 DATA CENTER CALLED COLOSSUS 1446 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:23,387 ONLINE IN JANUARY 2024. 1447 00:40:23,387 --> 00:40:25,389 IN 2025 AFTER THE 1448 00:40:25,389 --> 00:40:26,490 CENTER HAD BEEN OPERATIONAL FOR 1449 00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:29,293 ONE YEAR, 1450 00:40:29,293 --> 00:40:31,929 RESEARCHERS AT MY 1451 00:40:31,929 --> 00:40:34,265 ALMA MATER, UNIVERSITY OF 1452 00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:40,671 TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE FOUND 1453 00:40:40,671 --> 00:40:41,939 ATE CONCENTRATIONS INCREASED. 1454 00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:43,240 WITHOUT REFLECTING ON THESE 1455 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:44,708 FINDINGS THE COMPANY DECIDED 1456 00:40:44,708 --> 00:40:45,910 TO START CONSTRUCTING ANOTHER 1457 00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:46,744 DATA CENTER IN 1458 00:40:46,744 --> 00:40:47,745 ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD IN MEMPHIS. 1459 00:40:47,745 --> 00:40:49,180 I THINK ONE POINT OF NOTE 1460 00:40:49,180 --> 00:40:50,314 IS BOTH THE CURRENT DATA CENTER 1461 00:40:50,314 --> 00:40:52,283 AND THE NEWLY ANNOUNCED DATA 1462 00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:52,516 CENTERS 1463 00:40:52,516 --> 00:40:53,918 ARE BOTH IN TWO OF THE 1464 00:40:53,918 --> 00:40:54,952 POOREST NEIGHBORHOODS IN MEMPHIS 1465 00:40:54,952 --> 00:40:56,086 RIGHT NEXT TO COMMUNITIES OF 1466 00:40:56,086 --> 00:40:57,321 COLOR, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES 1467 00:40:57,321 --> 00:40:59,723 THAT ARE GOING TO BE EXPOSED 1468 00:40:59,723 --> 00:40:59,957 BEYOND 1469 00:40:59,957 --> 00:41:01,559 MEASURE TO CHRONIC ILLNESSES 1470 00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:03,594 AND DISEASES VIA WATER POLLUTION 1471 00:41:03,594 --> 00:41:04,728 AND AIR POLLUTION. 1472 00:41:04,728 --> 00:41:06,497 AND THEY TAKE YEARS TO 1473 00:41:06,497 --> 00:41:09,033 MANIFEST ONCE THE DAMAGE IS 1474 00:41:09,033 --> 00:41:10,167 ALREADY 1475 00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:13,137 IRREVOCABLE. SO IN CONCLUSION, I 1476 00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:14,572 URGE THIS 1477 00:41:14,572 --> 00:41:16,407 COUNCIL TO WEIGH THE 1478 00:41:16,407 --> 00:41:17,541 EXTREMELY HEAVY PUBLIC AND 1479 00:41:17,541 --> 00:41:18,409 SAFETY 1480 00:41:18,409 --> 00:41:19,376 COSTS BYPASSING THIS RESOLUTION 1481 00:41:19,376 --> 00:41:19,643 AND 1482 00:41:19,643 --> 00:41:21,045 REEVALUATING THE IMPACTS IT 1483 00:41:21,045 --> 00:41:22,680 WILL HAVE ON LOCAL 1484 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:27,384 COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU. 1485 00:41:27,518 --> 00:41:29,286 >> OUR NEXT IN- PERSON SPEAKER 1486 00:41:29,286 --> 00:41:29,987 IS 1487 00:41:29,987 --> 00:41:34,959 PATRICK FOLLOWED BY -- AND 1488 00:41:35,092 --> 00:41:35,492 BRADLEY. 1489 00:41:35,492 --> 00:41:37,261 >> YEAH, HI, COUNCILMEMBERS. 1490 00:41:37,261 --> 00:41:40,331 MY NAME IS PATRICK McKEY, AND 1491 00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:41,098 I LIVE IN WEST SEATTLE. 1492 00:41:41,098 --> 00:41:43,334 I'M A RETIRED FILMMAKER AND 1493 00:41:43,334 --> 00:41:45,703 I WORRY ABOUT THE A.I. THREAT TO 1494 00:41:45,703 --> 00:41:46,570 THAT INDUSTRY, TO MY 1495 00:41:46,570 --> 00:41:47,771 FELLOW WORKERS AND THE CREATIVE 1496 00:41:47,905 --> 00:41:48,606 PROCESS. I'M HERE TO SUPPORT 1497 00:41:48,606 --> 00:41:49,106 THE PASSAGE 1498 00:41:49,106 --> 00:41:52,943 OF RESOLUTION 32204 FOR ALL THE 1499 00:41:52,943 --> 00:41:54,979 REASONS FOLKS IN THIS ROOM AND 1500 00:41:54,979 --> 00:41:56,013 100,000 ADDITIONAL 1501 00:41:56,013 --> 00:41:57,348 COMMENTERS HAVE LAID OUT OVER 1502 00:41:57,348 --> 00:41:57,548 THESE 1503 00:41:57,548 --> 00:41:58,082 PAST FEW WEEKS. 1504 00:41:58,082 --> 00:41:59,350 BUT I'M CONCERNED. 1505 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:00,951 THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO BE 1506 00:42:00,951 --> 00:42:02,453 REALLY CAREFUL ABOUT 1507 00:42:02,453 --> 00:42:03,687 ATTACHING ANY AMENDMENTS AIMED 1508 00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:03,854 AT 1509 00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:05,422 PERMITTING ADDITIONAL CAPACITY 1510 00:42:05,422 --> 00:42:06,924 FOR SPECIFIC 1511 00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:07,525 EXISTING USERS. 1512 00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:09,126 ISN'T THE PURPOSE OF THE 1513 00:42:09,126 --> 00:42:10,294 PROPOSED MORATORIUM TO 1514 00:42:10,294 --> 00:42:12,196 BASICALLY HIT PAUSE AND REALLY 1515 00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:13,631 EXPLORE LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF 1516 00:42:13,631 --> 00:42:14,198 DATA 1517 00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:14,632 CENTER EXPANSION? 1518 00:42:14,632 --> 00:42:16,267 AND IF THE RESOLUTION IS 1519 00:42:16,267 --> 00:42:17,334 ALREADY LOADED WITH LOOPHOLES 1520 00:42:17,334 --> 00:42:21,138 AND 1521 00:42:21,138 --> 00:42:22,873 CARVEOUTS AND EXEMPTIONS AND 1522 00:42:22,873 --> 00:42:24,074 ALL THE ASSOCIATED LEGAL 1523 00:42:24,074 --> 00:42:24,375 DEFINITION 1524 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:25,943 AND WRANGLING THAT CAN GO WITH 1525 00:42:25,943 --> 00:42:27,511 THOSE, IT CAN HELP UNDERCUT AND 1526 00:42:27,511 --> 00:42:28,979 DELAY THE INTENTION. 1527 00:42:28,979 --> 00:42:31,949 SO THANK 1528 00:42:31,949 --> 00:42:32,583 YOU. 1529 00:42:32,583 --> 00:42:32,750 >> 1530 00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:33,050 THANK YOU. 1531 00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:35,419 >> OUR NEXT IN- PERSON SPEAKER 1532 00:42:35,419 --> 00:42:36,554 IS 1533 00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:40,991 SARAJ FOLLOWED BY BRADLEY 1534 00:42:40,991 --> 00:42:41,392 AND JACE. 1535 00:42:41,525 --> 00:42:44,495 >> MEMBERS OF THE CITY 1536 00:42:44,495 --> 00:42:45,996 COUNCIL, 1537 00:42:45,996 --> 00:42:48,499 GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M A MACHINE 1538 00:42:48,499 --> 00:42:48,899 LEARNING ENGINEER 1539 00:42:48,899 --> 00:42:51,101 AND A.I. SCIENTIST AND FOUNDER. 1540 00:42:51,101 --> 00:42:52,536 HERE ARE 1541 00:42:52,536 --> 00:42:54,371 THE FACTS. I MOVED HERE IN 2021. 1542 00:42:54,371 --> 00:42:56,874 IF MY ELECTRIC BILL WAS 1543 00:42:56,874 --> 00:43:05,783 $800 THEN 831. 10 TODAY WITH THE 1544 00:43:05,783 --> 00:43:07,184 SEEMINGLY REASONABLE 1545 00:43:07,184 --> 00:43:07,585 5% INCREASES. 1546 00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:09,219 THAT'S HOW COMPOUNDING HURTS. 1547 00:43:09,219 --> 00:43:11,121 IF 1548 00:43:11,121 --> 00:43:12,089 IT'S HARD TO AFFORD HEAT IN THE 1549 00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:14,258 WIPT IT HEARTS HARDER DUE TO 1550 00:43:14,258 --> 00:43:17,628 IN LARGE PART BY BIG TECH 1551 00:43:17,628 --> 00:43:19,763 COSTS THAT END UP SUBSIDIZED BY 1552 00:43:19,763 --> 00:43:21,732 EVERY DAY FOLKS VIA OR POWER 1553 00:43:21,732 --> 00:43:22,099 BILL 1554 00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:22,599 AND TAXES. 1555 00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:24,935 DO NOT VOTE TO WORSEN THE 1556 00:43:24,935 --> 00:43:25,703 CRISIS. 1557 00:43:25,703 --> 00:43:28,405 EVERY LAND PLOT PERMITTED FOR A 1558 00:43:28,405 --> 00:43:29,840 DATA CENTER AND NOT 1559 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,243 HOUSING COULD LEAD TO 1,000 TO 1560 00:43:33,243 --> 00:43:33,444 2,000 1561 00:43:33,444 --> 00:43:35,879 FUTURE RESIDENTS GOING UNHOUSED. 1562 00:43:35,879 --> 00:43:37,247 I WILL SUBMIT ON RECORD THAT 1563 00:43:37,247 --> 00:43:40,017 IS ROUGHLY IT 1564 00:43:40,017 --> 00:43:41,585 YUTSAGE OF 15 TO 20,000 1565 00:43:41,585 --> 00:43:42,586 HOUSEHOLDS WORTH OF 1566 00:43:42,586 --> 00:43:43,587 POWER. 1567 00:43:43,587 --> 00:43:45,189 IN OTHER WORDS, ONE WOULD 1568 00:43:45,189 --> 00:43:46,323 VOTE TO PROPOSE ADDITIONAL FOR 1569 00:43:46,323 --> 00:43:47,825 THE CITY OF SHORELINE. 1570 00:43:47,825 --> 00:43:49,827 I WOULD URGE YOU TO ADOPT 1571 00:43:49,827 --> 00:43:53,430 STRICTER EXPANSION CAPS THAT 1572 00:43:53,430 --> 00:43:53,864 PREVENT COMBINED 1573 00:43:53,864 --> 00:43:55,899 CUMULATE OVERAGES WORSE THAN THE 1574 00:43:55,899 --> 00:43:56,333 INITIAL PROPOSALS. 1575 00:43:56,333 --> 00:43:57,635 IF THERE IS GOING TO BE 1576 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:00,437 ANY PERMITTING OF INCREASES AT 1577 00:44:00,437 --> 00:44:01,472 ALL, MORATORIUM MEANS PAUSE, NO 1578 00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:01,672 BUTS. 1579 00:44:01,672 --> 00:44:03,507 HERE'S A THOUGHT. 1580 00:44:03,507 --> 00:44:05,476 IF WE INSTEAD MANDATE DATA 1581 00:44:05,476 --> 00:44:06,910 CENTERS HIT DELETE ON THEIR 1582 00:44:06,910 --> 00:44:08,479 CONTROL OF I.C.E. 1583 00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,114 AND FLOCK SURVEILLANCE, THE CITY 1584 00:44:10,114 --> 00:44:10,414 COULD 1585 00:44:10,414 --> 00:44:11,749 GET CRITICAL COMPUTING BACK FOR 1586 00:44:11,749 --> 00:44:12,316 ITS 1587 00:44:12,316 --> 00:44:12,816 PUBLIC USAGE. 1588 00:44:12,816 --> 00:44:14,985 NO EXPANSION NEEDED. 1589 00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:17,821 THANK YOU. 1590 00:44:17,955 --> 00:44:18,956 SOLIDARITY. 1591 00:44:18,956 --> 00:44:19,890 >> OUR NEXT IN-PERSON 1592 00:44:19,890 --> 00:44:21,558 PUBLIC SPEAKER IS BRADLEY 1593 00:44:21,558 --> 00:44:21,992 FOLLOWED 1594 00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:24,695 BY JACE AND 1595 00:44:24,695 --> 00:44:24,962 SAMANTHA. 1596 00:44:24,962 --> 00:44:25,396 >> HELLO, COUNCIL. 1597 00:44:25,396 --> 00:44:27,431 MY NAME IS BRADLEY. 1598 00:44:27,431 --> 00:44:30,100 I LIVE IN DISTRICT 3. 1599 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:33,670 I'M A SEATTLE SEATTLEITE -- 1600 00:44:33,670 --> 00:44:35,873 AND I ALSO URGE YOU TO VOTE YES 1601 00:44:35,873 --> 00:44:37,608 ON THE SEATTLE CITY MORATORIUM. 1602 00:44:37,608 --> 00:44:39,777 OUR GRID CANNOT HANDLE MORE 1603 00:44:39,777 --> 00:44:40,077 DATA 1604 00:44:40,077 --> 00:44:41,779 CENTERS. OUR GRID IS ALREADY 1605 00:44:41,779 --> 00:44:45,516 OVERSTRAINED BY VERY HIGH 1606 00:44:45,516 --> 00:44:45,849 DEMANDS, AND 1607 00:44:45,849 --> 00:44:47,217 WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WANT TO SEE 1608 00:44:47,217 --> 00:44:48,318 INSTEAD TO MANAGE THESE 1609 00:44:48,318 --> 00:44:49,720 DEMANDS ARE CLEAN ENERGY 1610 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:52,856 DEPLOYMENT, SOLAR ENERGY, BATTER 1611 00:44:52,856 --> 00:44:53,157 ENERGY 1612 00:44:53,157 --> 00:44:55,225 STORAGE, HEAT PUMPS THAT WILL 1613 00:44:55,225 --> 00:44:56,660 BENEFIT US AND NOT CONTINUE TO 1614 00:44:56,660 --> 00:44:57,294 STRAIN THE GRID. 1615 00:44:57,294 --> 00:45:02,099 I 1616 00:45:02,099 --> 00:45:02,699 ALSO SECOND PREVIOUS COMMENTS 1617 00:45:02,699 --> 00:45:03,167 ABOUT THE RESOLUTIONS 1618 00:45:03,167 --> 00:45:03,834 AND AMENDMENTS. 1619 00:45:03,834 --> 00:45:05,002 AND THAT'S ALL. 1620 00:45:05,002 --> 00:45:05,936 THANK YOU. 1621 00:45:06,070 --> 00:45:06,370 >> THANK 1622 00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:07,204 YOU. 1623 00:45:07,204 --> 00:45:08,806 >> OUR NEXT IN-PERSON PUBLIC 1624 00:45:08,806 --> 00:45:10,741 SPEAKER IS JACE FOLLOWED BY 1625 00:45:10,741 --> 00:45:14,378 SAMANTHA AND 1626 00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:14,745 JIM. 1627 00:45:14,745 --> 00:45:15,746 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS 1628 00:45:15,746 --> 00:45:16,246 JACE MURPHY. 1629 00:45:16,246 --> 00:45:17,915 AS OF THE 17th OF THIS 1630 00:45:17,915 --> 00:45:20,350 MONTH I WOULD HAVE LIVED HERE 1631 00:45:20,350 --> 00:45:20,851 FOR ONE 1632 00:45:20,984 --> 00:45:21,985 YEAR. THE FIRST THING I NOTICED 1633 00:45:21,985 --> 00:45:22,653 WHEN I 1634 00:45:22,653 --> 00:45:24,321 GOT HERE IS I COULD ACTUALLY 1635 00:45:24,321 --> 00:45:25,889 BREATHE LIVING FOR 23 YEARS IN 1636 00:45:25,889 --> 00:45:27,091 THE SOUTH WHERE INDUSTRY 1637 00:45:27,091 --> 00:45:30,461 IS GREATLY UNREGULATED AND 1638 00:45:30,461 --> 00:45:31,462 CAUSES 1639 00:45:31,462 --> 00:45:31,995 MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL 1640 00:45:31,995 --> 00:45:34,164 DEVASTATION GOING BACK 1641 00:45:34,164 --> 00:45:35,199 GENERATIONS IS THAT 1642 00:45:35,199 --> 00:45:36,300 IT'S SIMPLY SOMETHING THAT 1643 00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:39,303 YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ONCE IT HAS 1644 00:45:39,303 --> 00:45:39,737 HAPPENED. 1645 00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:41,472 SO SOMETHING I HAVEN'T HEARD 1646 00:45:41,472 --> 00:45:45,175 A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IS 1647 00:45:45,175 --> 00:45:47,144 THAT ACTUAL, LIKE, 1648 00:45:47,144 --> 00:45:48,145 GENERATIONAL DEVASTATION LOOKS 1649 00:45:48,145 --> 00:45:48,378 LIKE 1650 00:45:48,378 --> 00:45:49,746 WHEN THINGS GO UNCHECKED AND YOU 1651 00:45:49,746 --> 00:45:51,348 DO NOT HOLD THE 1652 00:45:51,348 --> 00:45:53,484 INDUSTRIES RESPONSIBLE IF IT 1653 00:45:53,484 --> 00:45:53,817 ACCOUNTABLE. 1654 00:45:53,817 --> 00:45:56,453 SO WHERE I'M FROM IS BATON 1655 00:45:56,453 --> 00:45:59,056 ROUGE, LOUISIANA. 1656 00:45:59,056 --> 00:46:01,024 ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF 1657 00:46:01,024 --> 00:46:02,159 FROM NEW ORLEANS, WHICH YOU 1658 00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:04,061 PROBABLY HEARD OF, BUT ALSO 1659 00:46:04,061 --> 00:46:08,532 WITHIN AN HOUR AND A HALF OF A 1660 00:46:08,532 --> 00:46:11,535 PLACE CALLED CANCER ALLEY, 1661 00:46:11,535 --> 00:46:12,102 AN INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR 1662 00:46:12,102 --> 00:46:13,637 WHERE PEOPLE LIVE AND WORK IN 1663 00:46:13,637 --> 00:46:13,937 FACTORIES. 1664 00:46:13,937 --> 00:46:14,905 PEOPLE LIVE AND 1665 00:46:14,905 --> 00:46:15,706 WORK THERE. THAT'S THEIR 1666 00:46:15,706 --> 00:46:16,073 COMMUNITY, BUT 1667 00:46:16,073 --> 00:46:17,741 THEY HAVE INCREASED RATES OF 1668 00:46:17,741 --> 00:46:18,876 CANCER THAT ESSENTIALLY WIPES 1669 00:46:18,876 --> 00:46:19,176 THEM 1670 00:46:19,176 --> 00:46:21,812 OUT AT A VERY EARLY AGE AS WELL 1671 00:46:21,812 --> 00:46:23,113 AS 1672 00:46:23,113 --> 00:46:24,581 INFRASTRUCTURE 1673 00:46:24,581 --> 00:46:26,083 CONCERNS REGARDING POLLUTION, 1674 00:46:26,083 --> 00:46:26,383 WHERE 1675 00:46:26,383 --> 00:46:27,618 INFRASTRUCTURE CANNOT BE 1676 00:46:27,618 --> 00:46:30,554 UPDATED BECAUSE IT IS SIMPLY TOO 1677 00:46:30,687 --> 00:46:32,022 TOXIC 1678 00:46:32,022 --> 00:46:32,856 TO DISTURB. AND THE COMPANIES 1679 00:46:32,856 --> 00:46:35,192 RESPONSIBLE FOR IT AREN'T BEING, 1680 00:46:35,192 --> 00:46:35,392 LIKE, 1681 00:46:35,392 --> 00:46:36,960 MADE TO CLEANUP AFTER 1682 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:37,261 THEMSELVES. 1683 00:46:37,261 --> 00:46:40,364 SO IN ASKING YOU TO PUT THIS 1684 00:46:40,364 --> 00:46:44,635 MORATORIUM IN PLACE, I'M ASKING 1685 00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:46,336 YOU TO MAKE IT AS STRICT AS 1686 00:46:46,336 --> 00:46:48,305 YOU POSSIBLY CAN AND TO NOT 1687 00:46:48,305 --> 00:46:49,706 LET EVERYTHING SLIDE. 1688 00:46:49,706 --> 00:46:51,041 EVERY INCH YOU GIVE THEM, THEY 1689 00:46:51,041 --> 00:46:52,910 WILL TAKE 1690 00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:53,510 A MILE. ANY TIME YOU ARE NOT 1691 00:46:53,510 --> 00:46:53,744 LOOKING 1692 00:46:53,744 --> 00:46:56,613 AT WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THEY'RE 1693 00:46:56,747 --> 00:46:57,381 GOING TO BE DOING SOMETHING THEY 1694 00:46:57,381 --> 00:46:58,081 WANT TO DO THAT IS NOT IN 1695 00:46:58,081 --> 00:47:00,083 THE BEST INTEREST OF THIS CITY 1696 00:47:00,083 --> 00:47:01,485 OR THE LANDS SURROUNDING IT OR 1697 00:47:01,485 --> 00:47:02,953 THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE. 1698 00:47:02,953 --> 00:47:10,060 ASIDE FROM THE CONCERNS THAT THE 1699 00:47:10,060 --> 00:47:10,627 IT'S A DANGER TO, LIKE, 1700 00:47:10,627 --> 00:47:11,962 OUR SAFETY, HEALTH, AND 1701 00:47:11,962 --> 00:47:15,766 HAPPINESS THAT WE ARE 1702 00:47:15,766 --> 00:47:15,966 OWED. 1703 00:47:15,966 --> 00:47:18,635 >> THANK 1704 00:47:18,635 --> 00:47:18,835 YOU. 1705 00:47:18,835 --> 00:47:20,137 >> OUR NEXT IN-PERSON 1706 00:47:20,137 --> 00:47:22,272 PUBLIC SPEAKER IS SAMANTHA 1707 00:47:22,272 --> 00:47:22,606 FOLLOWED 1708 00:47:22,606 --> 00:47:25,275 BY JIM AND 1709 00:47:25,275 --> 00:47:25,609 KENDRA. 1710 00:47:25,609 --> 00:47:27,811 >> HI, MY NAME IS SAMANTHA, 1711 00:47:27,811 --> 00:47:29,880 AND I'M A MEMBER OF SOAPBOX 1712 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,515 SEATTLE AS WELL AS A RECENTLY 1713 00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:34,117 LAID OFF TECH WORKER THAT WAS 1714 00:47:34,117 --> 00:47:34,484 WORKING WORKING 1715 00:47:34,484 --> 00:47:36,186 WITH A.I. AND A DESIGNER. 1716 00:47:36,186 --> 00:47:39,122 SO I WANTED TO SPEAK TODAY NOT 1717 00:47:39,122 --> 00:47:41,992 ONLY IN SUPPORT OF THE 1718 00:47:41,992 --> 00:47:45,562 MORATORIUM 32204 BUT ALSO TO 1719 00:47:45,562 --> 00:47:48,999 TALK A BIT ABOUT A.I. AND MY 1720 00:47:48,999 --> 00:47:50,834 PERSPECTIVE ON IT AND 1721 00:47:50,834 --> 00:47:52,002 THE EFFECTS THAT THESE 1722 00:47:52,002 --> 00:47:52,636 DATA CENTERS WOULD HAVE. 1723 00:47:52,636 --> 00:47:54,504 SO A LOT OF THE PEOPLE HERE 1724 00:47:54,504 --> 00:47:55,172 HAVE BROUGHT UP REALLY GOOD 1725 00:47:55,172 --> 00:47:56,940 POINTS ABOUT THE UTILITY AND 1726 00:47:56,940 --> 00:47:57,140 WATER 1727 00:47:57,140 --> 00:47:58,642 COSTS TO THE COMMUNITY. 1728 00:47:58,642 --> 00:48:00,143 I ALSO WANT TO BRING 1729 00:48:00,143 --> 00:48:03,914 MY PERSPECTIVE ON A.I. , WHERE 1730 00:48:03,914 --> 00:48:05,482 I BELIEVE THAT THESE COMPANIES 1731 00:48:05,482 --> 00:48:05,649 -- 1732 00:48:05,649 --> 00:48:06,550 ALL THESE BIG TECH COMPANIES 1733 00:48:06,550 --> 00:48:10,187 ARE BEING EXTREMELY PARASITIC. 1734 00:48:10,187 --> 00:48:10,787 THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY 1735 00:48:10,787 --> 00:48:11,788 TURNING THESE RESOURCES THAT ARE 1736 00:48:11,788 --> 00:48:12,222 TO 1737 00:48:12,222 --> 00:48:15,792 BE USED FOR OUR HEALTH AND 1738 00:48:15,792 --> 00:48:17,894 SAFETY, WATER, ELECTRICITY, 1739 00:48:17,894 --> 00:48:19,529 UTILITIES INTO CAPITAL, RIGHT? 1740 00:48:19,529 --> 00:48:21,331 AND THAT CREATES A LOT OF 1741 00:48:21,331 --> 00:48:23,200 PROBLEMS BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING 1742 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,302 TO CREATE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS 1743 00:48:25,302 --> 00:48:27,504 THAT DON'T EXIST 1744 00:48:27,504 --> 00:48:28,872 YET, RIGHT? SO I THINK AS A 1745 00:48:28,872 --> 00:48:31,508 PREVIOUS SPEAKER 1746 00:48:31,508 --> 00:48:35,078 MENTIONED, THE SITUATION OF WE 1747 00:48:35,078 --> 00:48:37,381 HAVEN'T NEEDED A.I. BEFORE AND 1748 00:48:37,381 --> 00:48:38,482 THIS IS A LUXURY GOOD, RIGHT, 1749 00:48:38,482 --> 00:48:40,450 SO WE'RE TRYING TO KATE ARE A 1750 00:48:40,450 --> 00:48:41,652 NEED 1751 00:48:41,652 --> 00:48:44,154 FOR SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T NEED 1752 00:48:44,154 --> 00:48:44,588 TO 1753 00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:47,391 HAPPEN. AND, YES, SO FOR THE 1754 00:48:47,391 --> 00:48:47,925 IMPACT 1755 00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:49,159 TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS 1756 00:48:49,159 --> 00:48:51,595 FEEDING THESE PARASITIC 1757 00:48:51,595 --> 00:48:52,863 ENTITIES, I 1758 00:48:52,863 --> 00:48:53,397 BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD BE 1759 00:48:53,397 --> 00:48:54,898 VERY STRICT ABOUT NOT EXPANDING 1760 00:48:54,898 --> 00:48:55,132 THESE 1761 00:48:55,132 --> 00:48:56,700 DATA CENTERS OR ALLOWING THEM 1762 00:48:56,700 --> 00:48:57,567 TO BE EXPANDED. 1763 00:48:57,567 --> 00:49:00,537 THANK 1764 00:49:00,537 --> 00:49:00,837 YOU. 1765 00:49:00,837 --> 00:49:03,106 >> THANK 1766 00:49:03,106 --> 00:49:04,942 YOU. 1767 00:49:04,942 --> 00:49:05,742 >> OUR NEXT PUBLIC SPEAKER IS 1768 00:49:05,742 --> 00:49:08,512 JIM FOLLOWED BY KENDRA 1769 00:49:08,512 --> 00:49:10,414 AND LAUREN REDFIELD ON OUR 1770 00:49:10,414 --> 00:49:10,647 REMOTE 1771 00:49:10,781 --> 00:49:11,014 SPEAKERS. 1772 00:49:11,014 --> 00:49:11,515 >> WELCOME, JIM. 1773 00:49:11,648 --> 00:49:14,017 >> HELLO COUNCILMEMBERS. 1774 00:49:14,017 --> 00:49:15,485 MY NAME IS JIM BANES. 1775 00:49:15,485 --> 00:49:16,920 I'M A CANDIDATE MEMBER OF 1776 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,288 THE AMERICAN PARTY OF LABOR. 1777 00:49:18,288 --> 00:49:19,890 YOU HEARD BEAUTIFULLY 1778 00:49:19,890 --> 00:49:21,692 ARTICULATED, WELL CITED 1779 00:49:21,692 --> 00:49:23,293 RESEARCH OF CONSTRUCTED DATA 1780 00:49:23,293 --> 00:49:23,527 CENTERS 1781 00:49:23,527 --> 00:49:23,994 IN SEATTLE. 1782 00:49:23,994 --> 00:49:25,662 IN LIGHT OF THAT I'M 1783 00:49:25,662 --> 00:49:27,164 DEMANDING ALL OF YOU PASS AND 1784 00:49:27,164 --> 00:49:27,798 EXPANDS THE 1785 00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:30,400 PORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS TO 1786 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:31,835 BE PERMIT AND TAX ANY DATA 1787 00:49:31,835 --> 00:49:32,336 CENTER 1788 00:49:32,336 --> 00:49:33,804 EXPACTIONS AT 1,000% OF 1789 00:49:33,804 --> 00:49:34,972 THE CURRENT PROPERTY TAX RATE. 1790 00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:36,306 WE MUST EITHER BAN 1791 00:49:36,306 --> 00:49:37,841 THESE FACILITIES OUT RIGHT OR 1792 00:49:37,841 --> 00:49:38,008 TAX 1793 00:49:38,008 --> 00:49:39,876 THEM INTO OBLIVION TO PAY FOR 1794 00:49:39,876 --> 00:49:40,143 THE 1795 00:49:40,143 --> 00:49:43,280 ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH, AND 1796 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:44,281 HUMAN THAT SEATTLEITES WILL 1797 00:49:44,281 --> 00:49:44,481 FACE. 1798 00:49:44,481 --> 00:49:46,216 A.I. AND TECH COMPANIES 1799 00:49:46,216 --> 00:49:47,117 TARGET COMMUNITIES OF WORKERS 1800 00:49:47,117 --> 00:49:48,719 WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO LOBBY 1801 00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:49,252 AGAINST 1802 00:49:49,252 --> 00:49:50,187 DATA 1803 00:49:50,187 --> 00:49:51,688 CENTER CONSTRUCTIONS. IN MEMPHIS 1804 00:49:51,688 --> 00:49:53,190 ELON MUSK'S EX-A.I. 1805 00:49:53,190 --> 00:49:55,325 OWNED BY SPACEX, WHO SEATTLE 1806 00:49:55,325 --> 00:49:57,828 IS CURRENTLY CONTRACTING WITH 1807 00:49:57,828 --> 00:49:57,994 FOR 1808 00:49:57,994 --> 00:49:59,663 STARLINK USE WITH SPD 1809 00:49:59,663 --> 00:50:01,398 THROUGH THE WORLD CUP AND FIVE 1810 00:50:01,398 --> 00:50:02,799 MONTHS AFTER -- SO WE'RE 1811 00:50:02,799 --> 00:50:05,569 ALREADY SUPPORTING ELON MUSK AND 1812 00:50:05,569 --> 00:50:05,769 THOSE 1813 00:50:05,769 --> 00:50:06,036 PROJECTS. 1814 00:50:06,036 --> 00:50:06,970 THEY WERE CONSTRUCTED 1815 00:50:06,970 --> 00:50:09,139 IN SOUTHWEST 1816 00:50:09,139 --> 00:50:09,706 AND BOXTOWN COMMUNITIES IN 1817 00:50:09,706 --> 00:50:09,973 MEMPHIS. 1818 00:50:09,973 --> 00:50:10,640 THESE COMMUNITIES IN THE 1819 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,476 VERY SHORT TIME THAT DATA 1820 00:50:12,476 --> 00:50:13,910 CENTERVISE EXISTED HAVE 1821 00:50:13,910 --> 00:50:15,979 EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT RISE IN 1822 00:50:15,979 --> 00:50:17,514 RATES OF 1823 00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:19,182 ASTHMA, RESPIRATORY DISEASE 1824 00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:19,383 AND 1825 00:50:19,383 --> 00:50:21,218 CANCER. AFTER A YEAR IF WE ALLOW 1826 00:50:21,218 --> 00:50:23,954 THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DATA 1827 00:50:24,087 --> 00:50:24,654 CENTERS, WHERE CAN WE EXPECT 1828 00:50:24,654 --> 00:50:27,357 THAT TO HAPPEN? 1829 00:50:27,357 --> 00:50:30,394 IT WILL HAPPEN IN 1830 00:50:30,394 --> 00:50:31,027 WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES AND 1831 00:50:31,027 --> 00:50:31,328 COMMUNITIES 1832 00:50:31,328 --> 00:50:33,330 OF COLOR WHO ALREADY 1833 00:50:33,330 --> 00:50:33,930 FACE DISPROPORTIONATE RATES 1834 00:50:33,930 --> 00:50:35,799 OF CHRONIC DISEASE, 1835 00:50:35,799 --> 00:50:37,167 RESPIRATORY ILLNESS AND 1836 00:50:37,167 --> 00:50:38,568 CANCER RATES. THESE DATA CENTERS 1837 00:50:38,568 --> 00:50:38,769 WILL 1838 00:50:38,769 --> 00:50:39,870 TARGET OUR COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH 1839 00:50:39,870 --> 00:50:41,271 SEATTLE AND WILL TARGET OUR 1840 00:50:41,271 --> 00:50:42,806 COMMUNITIES DOWN IN GEORGETOWN. 1841 00:50:42,806 --> 00:50:44,508 THEY WILL GO AND IMPACT 1842 00:50:44,508 --> 00:50:45,909 ALREADY EXISTING AND ALREADY 1843 00:50:45,909 --> 00:50:46,943 VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES HERE. 1844 00:50:46,943 --> 00:50:48,812 THIS IS ALL WITHOUT 1845 00:50:48,812 --> 00:50:51,348 CONSIDERING THE MATERIAL 1846 00:50:51,348 --> 00:50:52,682 IMPACTS OF THE POWER GRID THAT 1847 00:50:52,682 --> 00:50:52,983 SEATTLE 1848 00:50:52,983 --> 00:50:53,316 SITES 1849 00:50:53,316 --> 00:50:55,786 WILL FACE. A POWER OUTAGE IN THE 1850 00:50:55,786 --> 00:50:56,253 PEAK OF 1851 00:50:56,253 --> 00:50:58,688 SUMMER PUTS MY ELDERLY 1852 00:50:58,688 --> 00:51:00,323 NEIGHBORSNEIGHBORS IN THE RISK 1853 00:51:00,323 --> 00:51:00,690 OF HEATSTROKE. 1854 00:51:00,690 --> 00:51:02,459 AN OUTAGE IN THE DEPTHS 1855 00:51:02,459 --> 00:51:04,094 OF WINTER COULD CAUSE FAMILIES 1856 00:51:04,094 --> 00:51:05,662 TO FREEZE IN THEIR HOMES. 1857 00:51:05,662 --> 00:51:06,963 THERE'S REAL LIVES AT STAKE 1858 00:51:06,963 --> 00:51:08,598 HERE, NOT JUST REVENUE, 1859 00:51:08,598 --> 00:51:09,733 NOT JUST SEATTLE BECOMING AN 1860 00:51:09,733 --> 00:51:10,167 A.I. 1861 00:51:10,167 --> 00:51:11,635 HUB LIKE MAYOR WILSON WANTS 1862 00:51:11,635 --> 00:51:12,035 TO PURSUE. 1863 00:51:12,035 --> 00:51:13,336 THESE ARE 1864 00:51:13,336 --> 00:51:13,770 PEOPLE'S LIVES. 1865 00:51:13,770 --> 00:51:15,839 >> THANK YOU, JIM. 1866 00:51:15,972 --> 00:51:17,507 >> OUR NEXT IN- PERSON 1867 00:51:17,507 --> 00:51:19,309 PUBLIC SPEAKER IS KENDRA 1868 00:51:19,309 --> 00:51:19,876 FOLLOWED 1869 00:51:19,876 --> 00:51:23,747 BY REMOTE SPEAKER LAUREN 1870 00:51:23,747 --> 00:51:24,948 REDFIELD. 1871 00:51:24,948 --> 00:51:25,515 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. 1872 00:51:25,515 --> 00:51:27,384 GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL. 1873 00:51:27,384 --> 00:51:29,820 I'M A 1874 00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:30,454 CANDIDATE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN 1875 00:51:30,454 --> 00:51:31,021 PARTY OF LABOR, AND I 1876 00:51:31,021 --> 00:51:32,422 URGE YOU NOT ONLY TO PASS 1877 00:51:32,422 --> 00:51:34,057 THIS RESOLUTION BUT TO MAKE 1878 00:51:34,057 --> 00:51:36,326 IT INCLUSIVE OF ANY EXPANSIONS 1879 00:51:36,326 --> 00:51:36,493 AND 1880 00:51:36,493 --> 00:51:38,094 FURTHER TO MAKE IT PERMANENT. 1881 00:51:38,094 --> 00:51:39,696 DATA CENTERS HAVE HAD 1882 00:51:39,696 --> 00:51:42,232 NOTHING BUT HORRIBLE IMPACTS ON 1883 00:51:42,232 --> 00:51:42,833 THE 1884 00:51:42,833 --> 00:51:43,366 COMMUNITIES THAT THEY ARE 1885 00:51:43,366 --> 00:51:44,301 BUILT NEAR AROUND THE COUNTRY. 1886 00:51:44,301 --> 00:51:46,036 WE'RE GETTING REPORTS OF 1887 00:51:46,036 --> 00:51:47,571 RARE CANCERS THROUGH AIR AND 1888 00:51:47,571 --> 00:51:47,938 WATER 1889 00:51:47,938 --> 00:51:49,106 POLLUTION. WE'RE GETTING 1890 00:51:49,106 --> 00:51:49,773 REPORTS OF 1891 00:51:49,773 --> 00:51:53,043 THEM AFFECTING POWER GRIDS, AND 1892 00:51:53,043 --> 00:51:55,011 THEY DISPROPORTIONATELY 1893 00:51:55,011 --> 00:51:55,579 AFFECT MARGINALIZED 1894 00:51:55,579 --> 00:51:56,546 COMMUNITIES, SPECIFICALLY PEOPLE 1895 00:51:56,546 --> 00:51:57,147 OF COLOR 1896 00:51:57,147 --> 00:51:58,215 AND UNHOUSED PEOPLE. 1897 00:51:58,215 --> 00:52:00,283 WE'RE ALREADY 1898 00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:00,884 DEALING WITH GLOBAL WARM 1899 00:52:00,884 --> 00:52:01,184 [INCREASING 1900 00:52:01,184 --> 00:52:02,252 DROUGHTS HERE IN THE PACIFIC 1901 00:52:02,252 --> 00:52:02,619 NORTH 1902 00:52:02,619 --> 00:52:04,621 WEST, AND DATA CENTERS CAN 1903 00:52:04,621 --> 00:52:04,888 INCREASE 1904 00:52:04,888 --> 00:52:06,556 GROUND AND AIR TEMPERATURE BY 1905 00:52:06,556 --> 00:52:07,057 4 DEGREES. 1906 00:52:07,057 --> 00:52:08,692 NOW I'M GOING TO READ FROM 1907 00:52:08,692 --> 00:52:09,059 THE RESOLUTION. 1908 00:52:09,059 --> 00:52:10,227 IT SAYS NEW DATA CENTERS 1909 00:52:10,227 --> 00:52:12,662 REQUIRE GREAT AMOUNTS 1910 00:52:12,662 --> 00:52:13,296 OF ELECTRICITY FOR OPERATION, 1911 00:52:13,296 --> 00:52:13,563 RESULTING 1912 00:52:13,563 --> 00:52:14,397 IN SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN 1913 00:52:14,397 --> 00:52:16,633 DEMAND FOR ELECTRICITY AND 1914 00:52:16,633 --> 00:52:18,435 REQUIRING INVESTMENT IN NEW 1915 00:52:18,435 --> 00:52:18,802 INFRASTRUCTURE 1916 00:52:18,802 --> 00:52:21,404 TO MEET DEMAND. 1917 00:52:21,404 --> 00:52:22,906 COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ, I 1918 00:52:22,906 --> 00:52:24,007 LIVE IN YOUR DISTRICT, AND I 1919 00:52:24,007 --> 00:52:25,308 HAVE EXPERIENCED INCREASING 1920 00:52:25,308 --> 00:52:25,509 POWER 1921 00:52:25,509 --> 00:52:28,011 BLACKOUTS OVER THE 1922 00:52:28,011 --> 00:52:28,645 LAST YEAR. AND EVERY TIME THAT 1923 00:52:28,645 --> 00:52:28,912 HAPPENS, 1924 00:52:28,912 --> 00:52:30,380 MY NEIGHBORS AND I, WE CAN'T 1925 00:52:30,380 --> 00:52:30,981 USE WATER EITHER. 1926 00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:32,582 THE AMOUNT OF POWER THAT 1927 00:52:32,582 --> 00:52:34,751 THESE DATA CENTERS DEMAND WOULD 1928 00:52:34,751 --> 00:52:37,254 NOT ONLY MAKE THE ALREADY 1929 00:52:37,254 --> 00:52:37,754 EXISTING 1930 00:52:37,754 --> 00:52:40,924 STRAIN ON OUR POWER CENTER -- 1931 00:52:40,924 --> 00:52:42,792 POWER GRID WORSE, EXCUSE ME, IT 1932 00:52:42,792 --> 00:52:44,161 WOULD ALSO INCREASE THE COSTS 1933 00:52:44,161 --> 00:52:45,161 OF OUR ELECTRIC BILLS. 1934 00:52:45,161 --> 00:52:48,798 AND THESE CORPORATIONS DUMP 1935 00:52:48,798 --> 00:52:50,233 THOSE COSTS ONTO US. 1936 00:52:50,233 --> 00:52:50,834 THE MORATORIUM NOT ONLY NEEDS 1937 00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:52,469 TO BE PASSED, WE NEED TO 1938 00:52:52,469 --> 00:52:54,070 ENSURE THAT EXISTING CENTERS ARE 1939 00:52:54,070 --> 00:52:54,404 NOT 1940 00:52:54,404 --> 00:52:55,238 ALLOWED TO EXPAND. 1941 00:52:55,238 --> 00:52:58,975 THIS MORATORIUM NEEDS TO BE 1942 00:52:58,975 --> 00:52:59,242 MADEMADE 1943 00:52:59,242 --> 00:52:59,576 AND COMPLETE. 1944 00:52:59,709 --> 00:53:00,277 THANK YOU. 1945 00:53:00,277 --> 00:53:01,845 >> KENDRA, LET ME ASK YOU 1946 00:53:01,845 --> 00:53:02,445 A 1947 00:53:02,445 --> 00:53:03,246 QUICK QUESTION. DID YOU READ 1948 00:53:03,246 --> 00:53:04,848 FROM THE MORATORIUM 1949 00:53:04,848 --> 00:53:06,016 OR THE RESOLUTION? 1950 00:53:06,149 --> 00:53:08,318 >> THE RESOLUTION AND THE 1951 00:53:08,451 --> 00:53:08,818 MORATORIUM. 1952 00:53:08,818 --> 00:53:09,452 >> IS THAT OUR SECTION IN 1953 00:53:09,452 --> 00:53:12,155 THERE THAT SHE READ THE FIRST 1954 00:53:12,155 --> 00:53:12,522 PART? 1955 00:53:12,522 --> 00:53:16,493 >> IT WAS FROM THE REGISTRAR 1956 00:53:16,493 --> 00:53:16,960 WEBSITE. 1957 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:18,128 >> OKAY. BUT YOU QUOTED THE 1958 00:53:18,128 --> 00:53:19,496 RESOLUTION AND THE 1959 00:53:19,496 --> 00:53:19,996 MORATORIUM. 1960 00:53:19,996 --> 00:53:20,230 >> YES. 1961 00:53:20,230 --> 00:53:22,766 IT WAS ON THE AGENDA FOR THIS 1962 00:53:22,899 --> 00:53:23,600 MEETING. 1963 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:24,935 >> JUST WANTED TO MAKE 1964 00:53:24,935 --> 00:53:25,468 SURE. THANK YOU. 1965 00:53:25,468 --> 00:53:26,870 THANK YOU FOR 1966 00:53:26,870 --> 00:53:27,370 THAT. 1967 00:53:27,370 --> 00:53:28,338 >> OUR FINAL PUBLIC 1968 00:53:28,338 --> 00:53:29,839 COMMENTER WILL BE LAUREN 1969 00:53:29,839 --> 00:53:31,074 REDFIELD REMOTE. 1970 00:53:31,074 --> 00:53:32,943 WHEN YOU HEAR YOU'RE ALLOWED TO 1971 00:53:32,943 --> 00:53:33,743 TALK, PLEASE 1972 00:53:33,743 --> 00:53:34,110 PRESS STAR SIX. 1973 00:53:34,110 --> 00:53:37,047 >> LAUREN? 1974 00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:38,715 DID YOU SAY 1975 00:53:38,715 --> 00:53:38,949 LAUREN? 1976 00:53:38,949 --> 00:53:41,284 >> HI, CAN YOU 1977 00:53:41,284 --> 00:53:41,785 HEAR ME? 1978 00:53:41,785 --> 00:53:42,852 >> YES, WE CAN, LAUREN. 1979 00:53:42,852 --> 00:53:43,420 GO 1980 00:53:43,420 --> 00:53:43,787 AHEAD. 1981 00:53:43,787 --> 00:53:44,387 >> GREAT. 1982 00:53:44,387 --> 00:53:46,189 I'M AN ENERGY PRODUCT MANAGER, 1983 00:53:46,189 --> 00:53:47,357 A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 6 AND 1984 00:53:47,357 --> 00:53:49,025 A MEMBER OF THE WASHINGTON A.I. 1985 00:53:49,025 --> 00:53:51,261 RESISTANCE. 1986 00:53:51,261 --> 00:53:53,730 I SUPPORT THE DATA CENTERS 1987 00:53:53,730 --> 00:53:54,064 MORATORIUM. 1988 00:53:54,064 --> 00:53:55,532 I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE 1989 00:53:55,532 --> 00:54:00,270 RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGING THE 1990 00:54:00,270 --> 00:54:01,838 IMPACTS -- 1991 00:54:01,838 --> 00:54:03,807 AND AFFIRM THE RIGHTS OF 1992 00:54:03,807 --> 00:54:04,841 NATIVE COMMUNITIES TO EXERCISE 1993 00:54:04,841 --> 00:54:05,041 THEIR 1994 00:54:05,175 --> 00:54:06,042 RIGHTS. THANK YOU FOR TAKING 1995 00:54:06,042 --> 00:54:06,943 THE CONSIDERATIONS AND FEEDBACK 1996 00:54:06,943 --> 00:54:07,611 FROM THE COMMUNITY. 1997 00:54:07,611 --> 00:54:09,279 I AM NOT, HOWEVER, IN FAVOR 1998 00:54:09,279 --> 00:54:14,618 OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE 1999 00:54:14,618 --> 00:54:19,055 MORATORIUM LAND USE ORDINANCE 2000 00:54:19,055 --> 00:54:19,389 INTRODUCED -- 2001 00:54:19,389 --> 00:54:21,458 THE LARGESTIDATE ACENTER 2002 00:54:21,458 --> 00:54:25,095 IN SEATTLE IS 30 MEGAVOLT AND 2003 00:54:25,095 --> 00:54:26,997 WOULD ALLOW THE DATA CENTER TO 2004 00:54:26,997 --> 00:54:28,098 EXPAND TO 50 NOT CONSIDERING ALL 2005 00:54:28,098 --> 00:54:28,331 OF THE 2006 00:54:28,331 --> 00:54:30,333 OTHER DATA CENTERS THAT WOULD 2007 00:54:30,333 --> 00:54:31,935 BE ALLOWED TO EXPAND. 2008 00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:33,169 NOTABLY THIS AMENDMENT IS NOT 2009 00:54:33,169 --> 00:54:33,903 AVAILABLE ONLINE BEFORE 2010 00:54:33,903 --> 00:54:36,406 THE HEARING AND 2011 00:54:36,406 --> 00:54:37,507 REMAINS UNAVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC 2012 00:54:37,507 --> 00:54:38,208 REVIEW ONLINE. 2013 00:54:38,208 --> 00:54:39,042 I WAS ONLY ABLE TO SEE 2014 00:54:39,042 --> 00:54:46,049 IT BECAUSE A COMRADE SENT ME A 2015 00:54:46,049 --> 00:54:47,484 HARD PACKET COMMIE FROM 2016 00:54:47,484 --> 00:54:49,953 HIS PHONE. I'M LETTING YOU KNOW 2017 00:54:49,953 --> 00:54:50,654 THIS ASAS 2018 00:54:50,654 --> 00:54:53,690 CITY 2019 00:54:53,690 --> 00:54:54,357 LIGHTS COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY WE'LL 2020 00:54:54,357 --> 00:54:55,025 BE REVIEWING THIS OVER THE 2021 00:54:55,025 --> 00:54:57,861 NEXT FEW DAYS. 2022 00:54:57,861 --> 00:55:00,764 THE VAST MAJORITY OF DATA CENTER 2023 00:55:00,764 --> 00:55:01,931 MORATORIUMS AROUND OUR 2024 00:55:01,931 --> 00:55:03,500 COUNTRY ADOPTED ELSEWHERE DO NOT 2025 00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:04,801 INCLUDE THIS EXCEPTION. 2026 00:55:04,801 --> 00:55:06,603 COLLECTIVELY, THESE 2027 00:55:06,603 --> 00:55:08,538 EXPANSIONS COULD INCREASE 2028 00:55:08,538 --> 00:55:10,173 ELECTRICITY DEMAND, INCREASE OF 2029 00:55:10,173 --> 00:55:11,808 THE POWER OF 2030 00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:17,180 WHOLESALE MARKS IN OUR STATE 2031 00:55:17,180 --> 00:55:17,380 AND 2032 00:55:17,380 --> 00:55:17,914 REGION AND CONTRIBUTE TO 2033 00:55:17,914 --> 00:55:19,082 PRESSURE ON ALL OF US EVEN 2034 00:55:19,082 --> 00:55:25,622 WHILE THEY HAVE A MORATORIUM IN 2035 00:55:25,622 --> 00:55:26,056 PLACE. 2036 00:55:26,056 --> 00:55:26,389 THANK 2037 00:55:26,389 --> 00:55:26,656 YOU. 2038 00:55:26,656 --> 00:55:36,032 >> THANK YOU, LAUREN. 2039 00:55:36,032 --> 00:55:38,101 MR. CLERK, WE HAVE ANYMORE 2040 00:55:38,101 --> 00:55:38,435 FOLKS? 2041 00:55:38,435 --> 00:55:38,868 ALL 2042 00:55:38,868 --> 00:55:42,238 RIGHT. THAT WAS OUR LAST 2043 00:55:42,238 --> 00:55:42,906 SPEAKER, AND AT THIS POINT I AM 2044 00:55:42,906 --> 00:55:43,239 NOW GOING TO 2045 00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:44,207 CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND 2046 00:55:44,207 --> 00:55:48,611 WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ONTO ITEMS 2047 00:55:48,611 --> 00:55:48,878 OF 2048 00:55:49,012 --> 00:55:49,612 BUSINESS. SAYING MADAM CLERK 2049 00:55:49,612 --> 00:55:49,846 AGAIN. 2050 00:55:49,846 --> 00:55:52,248 MR. CLERK, PAUL, CAN YOU 2051 00:55:52,248 --> 00:55:53,316 PLEASE READ ITEM 1 INTO 2052 00:55:53,316 --> 00:55:53,850 THE RECORD? 2053 00:55:53,850 --> 00:55:57,087 >> AGENDA ITEM 1, REZZINGLUTION 2054 00:55:57,087 --> 00:56:00,323 32204, A RESOLUTION RELATED TO 2055 00:56:00,323 --> 00:56:01,624 DATA CENTERS RELATING 2056 00:56:01,624 --> 00:56:02,358 THE RECOGNIZING THE POTENTIAL 2057 00:56:02,358 --> 00:56:04,728 OF LONG- TERM IMPACTS OF 2058 00:56:04,728 --> 00:56:07,564 DATA CENTERS ON ELECTRICAL GRID 2059 00:56:07,564 --> 00:56:09,032 CAPACITY AND RELIABILITY, 2060 00:56:09,032 --> 00:56:10,867 WATER USAGE, UTILITY RATES, LAND 2061 00:56:10,867 --> 00:56:13,369 USE AND DEVELOPMENT, JOBS AND 2062 00:56:13,369 --> 00:56:13,603 THE 2063 00:56:13,603 --> 00:56:15,538 ECONOMY, AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2064 00:56:15,538 --> 00:56:17,774 AND REQUESTING ENGAGEMENT AND 2065 00:56:17,774 --> 00:56:19,209 COOPERATION FROM THE EXECUTIVE 2066 00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:20,610 IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF 2067 00:56:20,610 --> 00:56:22,178 DATA CENTER POLICIES AND 2068 00:56:22,178 --> 00:56:22,912 POTENTIAL 2069 00:56:22,912 --> 00:56:23,580 LEGISLATION, AND 2070 00:56:23,580 --> 00:56:25,482 ANTICIPATES RELATED LEGISLATIVE 2071 00:56:25,482 --> 00:56:25,915 A BRIEFING, 2072 00:56:25,915 --> 00:56:27,050 DISCUSSION, AND POSSIBLE 2073 00:56:27,050 --> 00:56:27,817 VOTE. 2074 00:56:27,817 --> 00:56:28,651 >> OH, THERE WILL BE A VOTE. 2075 00:56:28,651 --> 00:56:30,954 I MOVE TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 2076 00:56:31,087 --> 00:56:31,788 32204. IS THERE A 2077 00:56:31,788 --> 00:56:32,455 SECOND? 2078 00:56:32,455 --> 00:56:32,689 >> 2079 00:56:32,689 --> 00:56:33,123 SECOND. 2080 00:56:33,123 --> 00:56:34,124 >> THANK YOU, 2081 00:56:34,124 --> 00:56:34,557 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. 2082 00:56:34,557 --> 00:56:35,725 IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED 2083 00:56:35,725 --> 00:56:36,760 TO RECOMMEND THE ADOPTION, BUT 2084 00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,028 WE HAVE A COUPLE OF AMENDMENTS, 2085 00:56:39,028 --> 00:56:40,396 SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD 2086 00:56:40,396 --> 00:56:41,164 AND INTRODUCE 2087 00:56:41,164 --> 00:56:42,532 THE RESOLUTION. THIS RESOLUTION 2088 00:56:42,532 --> 00:56:43,600 IS A 2089 00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:44,768 CULMINATION OF MONTHS OF WORK, 2090 00:56:44,768 --> 00:56:45,368 WHICH MY 2091 00:56:45,368 --> 00:56:47,437 TEAM AND COUNCILMEMBER LYNN 2092 00:56:47,437 --> 00:56:49,773 AND COUNCILMEMBER SAKA'S TEAM 2093 00:56:49,773 --> 00:56:52,442 STARTED LAST OCTOBER OF 2025. 2094 00:56:52,442 --> 00:56:53,009 WE SPENT THE FIRST PART OF 2095 00:56:53,009 --> 00:56:54,444 THE YEAR TRACKING STATE 2096 00:56:54,444 --> 00:56:56,012 BILLS THAT WERE SEEKING TO 2097 00:56:56,012 --> 00:56:58,014 CREATE PROTECTIONS AND 2098 00:56:58,014 --> 00:56:58,314 LEGISLATION 2099 00:56:58,314 --> 00:56:59,249 AROUND DATA CENTERS AND A.I. 2100 00:56:59,249 --> 00:57:01,050 HOWEVER, ONLY ONE OF THE 2101 00:57:01,050 --> 00:57:01,384 TEN PASSED. 2102 00:57:01,384 --> 00:57:03,186 WE'VE ALSO 2103 00:57:03,186 --> 00:57:03,720 ATTENDED AND FOLLOWED THE 2104 00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:08,191 WASHINGTON STATE A.I. TASK 2105 00:57:08,324 --> 00:57:08,925 FORCE AND THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS 2106 00:57:08,925 --> 00:57:11,694 AND OTHER EFFORTS ACROSS THE 2107 00:57:11,694 --> 00:57:13,830 COUNTRY WITH TRIBES AND LOCAL 2108 00:57:13,963 --> 00:57:16,199 COMMUNITIES THAT ARE GRAPPLING 2109 00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:16,966 WITH THE BOOM IN MEGADATA 2110 00:57:16,966 --> 00:57:17,634 CENTERS. OUR WORK HAS LED TO 2111 00:57:17,634 --> 00:57:17,901 THISTHIS 2112 00:57:17,901 --> 00:57:20,470 RESOLUTION IN TANDEM WITH THE 2113 00:57:20,470 --> 00:57:23,506 MORATORIUM THAT WAS PASSED THIS 2114 00:57:23,506 --> 00:57:27,877 MORNING, COUNCIL BILL 121214 2115 00:57:27,877 --> 00:57:29,813 IN COUNCILMEMBER LIN'S 2116 00:57:29,813 --> 00:57:31,014 COMMITTEE, 2117 00:57:31,014 --> 00:57:31,581 FINDING THERE'S A LACK OF 2118 00:57:31,581 --> 00:57:32,248 UNDERSTANDING AND RESEARCH 2119 00:57:32,248 --> 00:57:33,783 AROUND THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS 2120 00:57:33,783 --> 00:57:35,618 THESE MEGA- DATA CENTERS 2121 00:57:35,618 --> 00:57:36,920 WILL HAVE UPON OUR COMMUNITIES. 2122 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,755 AS A TECH CITY, IT IS VITAL 2123 00:57:38,755 --> 00:57:39,756 WE UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL 2124 00:57:39,756 --> 00:57:41,724 EFFECTS AND CREATE SAFE GUARDS 2125 00:57:41,724 --> 00:57:43,193 BEFORE ALLOWING THE UNCHECKED 2126 00:57:43,193 --> 00:57:43,626 BOOM 2127 00:57:43,626 --> 00:57:44,828 OF BUILDING IN OUR CITY. 2128 00:57:44,828 --> 00:57:47,063 AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK 2129 00:57:47,063 --> 00:57:51,367 COUNCILMEMBER LIN AND HIS 2130 00:57:51,367 --> 00:57:52,669 STAFF, STEPHANIE, THADDEUS, AND 2131 00:57:52,669 --> 00:57:53,436 GARRET 2132 00:57:53,436 --> 00:57:58,174 FOR PARTNERING IN THIS WORK, AND 2133 00:57:58,174 --> 00:58:01,144 ERIC McCONAGHY AND STAFF FOR HIS 2134 00:58:01,144 --> 00:58:03,446 WORK ON THIS RESOLUTION AND 2135 00:58:03,446 --> 00:58:03,680 ALLALL 2136 00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:04,781 THE PUBLIC COMMENTERS WHO 2137 00:58:04,781 --> 00:58:07,584 CAME OUT TO GIVE INPUT INCLUDING 2138 00:58:07,584 --> 00:58:08,151 350 2139 00:58:08,151 --> 00:58:09,485 SEATTLE, AND DID YOU 2140 00:58:09,485 --> 00:58:10,620 SAY THE TROUBLE MAKERS? 2141 00:58:10,620 --> 00:58:12,255 IS THAT A GROUP? 2142 00:58:12,255 --> 00:58:13,990 THERE THEY ARE, WITH THE PINK 2143 00:58:13,990 --> 00:58:14,858 PIN, I REMEMBER. 2144 00:58:14,858 --> 00:58:17,160 AND THEN I DON'T SEE -- WHAT 2145 00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,363 WAS THE ONE GUY WITH THE 2146 00:58:20,363 --> 00:58:20,663 T-SHIRT? 2147 00:58:20,663 --> 00:58:24,200 WHAT WAS HIS 2148 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:24,501 NAME? WHAT? 2149 00:58:24,501 --> 00:58:27,637 NO, WHAT WAS THE T-SHIRT. 2150 00:58:27,637 --> 00:58:28,538 PEARL JAM. 2151 00:58:28,538 --> 00:58:33,710 PEARL JAM GUY. 2152 00:58:33,710 --> 00:58:36,579 I HATE IT TELL YOU THIS, BUT I 2153 00:58:36,579 --> 00:58:38,448 DO NOT KNOW PEARL JAM SONGS, 2154 00:58:38,448 --> 00:58:40,316 AND I'M FROM HERE. 2155 00:58:40,316 --> 00:58:42,418 SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE'VE 2156 00:58:42,418 --> 00:58:44,787 GOT ERIC McCONAGHY UP HERE. 2157 00:58:44,787 --> 00:58:47,790 HE'S GOING TO WALK -- 2158 00:58:47,790 --> 00:58:48,124 HE'S FROM 2159 00:58:48,124 --> 00:58:49,092 CENTRAL STAFF. HE'S OUR 2160 00:58:49,092 --> 00:58:49,359 ANALYSTS. 2161 00:58:49,359 --> 00:58:50,894 HE WILL TAKE US THROUGH HIS 2162 00:58:50,894 --> 00:58:51,794 POWERPOINT, WHICH IS 2163 00:58:51,794 --> 00:58:52,328 SEVEN 2164 00:58:52,328 --> 00:58:53,930 PAGES. AND ARE YOU READY TO GO, 2165 00:58:53,930 --> 00:58:54,297 ERIC? 2166 00:58:54,430 --> 00:58:55,632 >> YEP, I SURE AM. 2167 00:58:55,765 --> 00:58:57,133 >> OKAY, SO YOU SHOULD HAVE, AND 2168 00:58:57,133 --> 00:58:57,734 IT 2169 00:58:57,734 --> 00:58:59,602 WAS POSTED. THE DATA CENTER 2170 00:58:59,602 --> 00:58:59,836 POLICY 2171 00:58:59,969 --> 00:59:01,337 RESOLUTION. THE FLOOR IS 2172 00:59:01,337 --> 00:59:02,338 YOURS, ERIC. 2173 00:59:02,338 --> 00:59:02,839 GO AHEAD. 2174 00:59:02,839 --> 00:59:05,341 >> ERIC McCONAGHY, 2175 00:59:05,341 --> 00:59:06,075 COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF. 2176 00:59:06,075 --> 00:59:09,078 SO, YEAH, THIS -- AS ALL THE 2177 00:59:09,078 --> 00:59:10,413 FOLKS IN THIS ROOM KNOW 2178 00:59:10,413 --> 00:59:11,414 THIS RESOLUTION IS ABOUT 2179 00:59:11,414 --> 00:59:11,781 DATA CENTERS. 2180 00:59:11,781 --> 00:59:13,917 THESE ARE FACILITIES 2181 00:59:13,917 --> 00:59:15,418 MAINLY USED -- FORGIVE ME FOR 2182 00:59:15,418 --> 00:59:15,585 THE 2183 00:59:15,585 --> 00:59:18,187 FOLKS THAT ARE HERE, MAYBE FOLKS 2184 00:59:18,187 --> 00:59:19,622 THAT TUNED IN NEW TO THE 2185 00:59:19,622 --> 00:59:19,923 SUBJECT, 2186 00:59:19,923 --> 00:59:21,124 SO SOME OF THIS MATERIAL IS 2187 00:59:21,124 --> 00:59:22,959 GOING TO SEEM REDUNDDANT, BUT 2188 00:59:22,959 --> 00:59:24,294 IT'S GOING TO GET ON IT RECORD 2189 00:59:24,294 --> 00:59:24,460 FOR 2190 00:59:24,460 --> 00:59:26,296 NOW AND FOR POSTERITY. 2191 00:59:26,296 --> 00:59:28,097 SO I'LL MOVE EFFICIENTLY 2192 00:59:28,097 --> 00:59:28,565 THROUGH 2193 00:59:28,565 --> 00:59:30,033 THESE SLIDES. DATA CENTERS ARE 2194 00:59:30,033 --> 00:59:32,735 FACILITIES PRIMARILY USED FOR 2195 00:59:32,735 --> 00:59:33,036 HOUSING, 2196 00:59:33,036 --> 00:59:34,604 CO- LOCATION AND OPERATION 2197 00:59:34,604 --> 00:59:34,971 OF EQUIPMENT. 2198 00:59:34,971 --> 00:59:37,607 AND THEY HAVE ALL THE FACILITIES 2199 00:59:37,740 --> 00:59:38,374 WITH THEM TO KEEP THEM COOL AND 2200 00:59:38,374 --> 00:59:39,175 BACK THEM UP. 2201 00:59:39,175 --> 00:59:41,044 THE DATA CENTERS THAT ARE 2202 00:59:41,044 --> 00:59:43,579 THE SUBJECT OF THIS CONVERSATION 2203 00:59:43,579 --> 00:59:44,480 TODAY AND THIS RESOLUTION 2204 00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,215 LARGELY COME WITH THE GROWTH 2205 00:59:46,215 --> 00:59:47,317 OF ART INITIAL INTELLIGENCE 2206 00:59:47,317 --> 00:59:49,118 AND THAT HAS ACCELERATED 2207 00:59:49,118 --> 00:59:53,790 THE DEMAND FOR NEW DATA CENTERS. 2208 00:59:53,790 --> 00:59:54,290 IMPACTS OF DATA CENTERS 2209 00:59:54,290 --> 00:59:55,325 CAN INCLUDE ELECTRICAL GRID 2210 00:59:55,325 --> 00:59:55,592 CAPACITY 2211 00:59:55,592 --> 00:59:57,226 AND RELIABILITY, WATER 2212 00:59:57,226 --> 00:59:58,795 USAGE, UTILITY RATES, LAND USE 2213 00:59:58,795 --> 01:00:00,363 AND DEVELOPMENT, JOBS AND THE 2214 01:00:00,363 --> 01:00:01,631 ECONOMY, AND PUBLIC HEALTH SUCH 2215 01:00:01,631 --> 01:00:06,202 AS NOISE, LIGHT, WATER, AND AIR 2216 01:00:06,336 --> 01:00:08,805 POLLUTION. THIS RESOLUTION CALLS 2217 01:00:08,805 --> 01:00:09,038 FOR 2218 01:00:09,038 --> 01:00:11,274 THE COUNCIL OF THE EXECUTIVE TO 2219 01:00:11,274 --> 01:00:12,709 WORK TOGETHER TOWARD THESE 2220 01:00:12,709 --> 01:00:15,745 POLICY GOALS TO REDUCE OR 2221 01:00:15,745 --> 01:00:17,180 MITIGATE 2222 01:00:17,180 --> 01:00:18,881 ANY DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF DATA 2223 01:00:18,881 --> 01:00:19,983 CENTERS, TO HOLD DATA 2224 01:00:19,983 --> 01:00:21,951 CENTER INVESTORS AND OPERATORS 2225 01:00:21,951 --> 01:00:25,888 ACCOUNTABLE, AND HOOHARVEST OR 2226 01:00:25,888 --> 01:00:32,395 MAXIMIZE ANY BENEFITS OF DATA 2227 01:00:32,395 --> 01:00:34,564 CENTERS. 2228 01:00:34,564 --> 01:00:35,732 THERE IS, OF COURSE, RELATED 2229 01:00:35,732 --> 01:00:36,065 LEGISLATION. 2230 01:00:36,065 --> 01:00:38,101 THERE'S THE DATA CENTER 2231 01:00:38,101 --> 01:00:39,135 MORATORIUM THAT WAS JUST THIS 2232 01:00:39,135 --> 01:00:42,505 MORNING, THE LAND USE COMMITTEE. 2233 01:00:42,505 --> 01:00:43,473 THAT MORATORIUM -- THE NEXT 2234 01:00:43,473 --> 01:00:46,142 STEP IN THE MORATORIUM WOULD 2235 01:00:46,142 --> 01:00:48,177 BE COUNCIL AND UPON ITS PASSAGE 2236 01:00:48,177 --> 01:00:50,546 AFTER FINAL ACTION WOULD PUT A 2237 01:00:50,546 --> 01:00:51,314 PAUSE ON MORATORIUM 2238 01:00:51,314 --> 01:00:53,516 DEVELOPMENT FOR A YEAR TO ALLOW 2239 01:00:53,516 --> 01:00:53,816 FOR STUDY. 2240 01:00:53,816 --> 01:00:55,251 ALSO THE CITY COUNCIL WILL 2241 01:00:55,251 --> 01:00:58,354 TAKE UP A CITY LIGHT RATES 2242 01:00:58,354 --> 01:00:59,822 ORDINANCE LATER THIS SUMMER THAT 2243 01:00:59,822 --> 01:01:01,591 DOES INCLUDE A NEW CUSTOMER 2244 01:01:01,591 --> 01:01:01,924 CLASS 2245 01:01:01,924 --> 01:01:08,131 FOR DATA CENTERS. 2246 01:01:08,131 --> 01:01:10,833 SPEAKING THE NOTION IS TO 2247 01:01:10,833 --> 01:01:11,701 HAVEHAVE CITYWIDE 2248 01:01:11,701 --> 01:01:12,201 INTERDEPARTMENTAL STUDY 2249 01:01:12,201 --> 01:01:14,437 OF THE IMPACTS OF DATA CENTERS. 2250 01:01:14,437 --> 01:01:16,606 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS 2251 01:01:16,606 --> 01:01:17,673 THAT WE WOULD SEE AS A RESULT OF 2252 01:01:17,673 --> 01:01:18,007 THE 2253 01:01:18,007 --> 01:01:22,245 PASSAGE OF THE ADOPTION OF 2254 01:01:22,245 --> 01:01:23,246 THIS RESOLUTION AND THE PASSAGE 2255 01:01:23,246 --> 01:01:24,714 OF THE ORDINANCE WOULD BE 2256 01:01:24,714 --> 01:01:26,682 THE ACTIONS TAKEN UP UNDER THE 2257 01:01:26,682 --> 01:01:26,883 WORK 2258 01:01:27,016 --> 01:01:29,352 PLAN. THIS WOULD INCLUDE 2259 01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:29,652 CONSULTING 2260 01:01:29,652 --> 01:01:30,586 WITH EXTERNAL GROUPS AND 2261 01:01:30,586 --> 01:01:31,454 STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING 2262 01:01:31,454 --> 01:01:32,321 THOSE 2263 01:01:32,321 --> 01:01:33,456 LISTED EAR. IT WOULD BE TO 2264 01:01:33,456 --> 01:01:34,123 DEVELOP UPDATES 2265 01:01:34,123 --> 01:01:35,391 TO THE ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT 2266 01:01:35,391 --> 01:01:37,527 REGULATIONS, ALSO 2267 01:01:37,527 --> 01:01:39,095 DEVELOP UPDATES TO STRUCTURES 2268 01:01:39,095 --> 01:01:39,429 FOR CITY 2269 01:01:39,429 --> 01:01:40,897 LIGHT AND PUBLIC UTILITIES, AND 2270 01:01:40,897 --> 01:01:42,899 TO EXPLORE VOLUNTARY DATA 2271 01:01:42,899 --> 01:01:45,468 CENTER -- EXCUSE ME, 2272 01:01:45,468 --> 01:01:47,837 VOLUNTARY DATA CENTER COMMUNITY 2273 01:01:47,837 --> 01:01:48,104 BENEFITS. 2274 01:01:48,104 --> 01:01:53,376 THIS BRINGS US TO AMENDMENT 1 2275 01:01:53,376 --> 01:01:54,477 TO THIS RESOLUTION. 2276 01:01:54,477 --> 01:01:56,312 THE SPONSOR OF THIS AMENDMENT 2277 01:01:56,312 --> 01:01:57,747 IS COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ. 2278 01:01:57,747 --> 01:01:59,849 HE WOULD UPDATE THE TITLE, 2279 01:01:59,849 --> 01:02:01,384 THAT UPDATE TO THE TITLE WOULD 2280 01:02:01,384 --> 01:02:01,551 GO 2281 01:02:01,551 --> 01:02:02,852 ALONG WITH SOME CHANGES THE 2282 01:02:02,852 --> 01:02:04,387 VERB THAT'S USED IN SECTION 1. 2283 01:02:04,387 --> 01:02:07,890 IT WOULD ADD A RECITAL 2284 01:02:07,890 --> 01:02:10,026 REGARDING CUMULATIVE IMPACTS, 2285 01:02:10,026 --> 01:02:10,693 AND 2286 01:02:10,693 --> 01:02:11,828 ALSO CLARIFY A SECOND ABOUT 2287 01:02:11,828 --> 01:02:13,229 THE UPCOMING DATA CENTER 2288 01:02:13,229 --> 01:02:14,664 CUSTOMER CLASS IN THE CITY 2289 01:02:14,664 --> 01:02:15,064 LIGHT ORDINANCE. 2290 01:02:15,064 --> 01:02:16,332 I'LL PAUSE THERE TO ALLOW 2291 01:02:16,332 --> 01:02:19,702 FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR, OF 2292 01:02:19,702 --> 01:02:23,506 COURSE, CHAIR TO TALK ABOUT THIS 2293 01:02:23,706 --> 01:02:24,507 AMENDMENT. 2294 01:02:24,507 --> 01:02:26,109 >> WELL, ACTUALLY, I 2295 01:02:26,109 --> 01:02:27,310 DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING 2296 01:02:27,310 --> 01:02:27,977 MORE TO ADD 2297 01:02:27,977 --> 01:02:28,945 BESIDES WHAT YOU PUT IN 2298 01:02:28,945 --> 01:02:31,547 THERE, AND I WAS JUST GOING TO 2299 01:02:31,547 --> 01:02:31,781 OPEN IT 2300 01:02:31,781 --> 01:02:33,850 UP AFTER YOU FINISHED TO MY 2301 01:02:33,850 --> 01:02:35,051 COLLEAGUES TO QUESTION EITHER 2302 01:02:35,051 --> 01:02:35,351 AMENDMENT. 2303 01:02:35,485 --> 01:02:36,452 >> WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO 2304 01:02:36,452 --> 01:02:38,154 CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE AMENDMENT 2305 01:02:38,154 --> 01:02:39,322 NUMBER 2 AND THEN WE CAN DO 2306 01:02:39,322 --> 01:02:39,989 THAT. 2307 01:02:39,989 --> 01:02:40,623 >> LET'S DO THAT. 2308 01:02:40,623 --> 01:02:43,359 AND I WAS GOING TO 2309 01:02:43,359 --> 01:02:44,093 LOOP BACK AND ASK MY COLLEAGUES 2310 01:02:44,093 --> 01:02:44,427 AND THEY 2311 01:02:44,427 --> 01:02:46,062 HAD QUESTIONS ON AMENDMENT 1 AND 2312 01:02:46,062 --> 01:02:47,396 2. 2313 01:02:47,396 --> 01:02:49,332 AND I HAD SOME COMMENTS ON 2314 01:02:49,332 --> 01:02:50,833 AMENDMENT 2, BUT 2315 01:02:50,833 --> 01:02:52,235 GO AHEAD. 2316 01:02:52,235 --> 01:02:53,703 >> AND AMENDMENT 2 WOULD ADD AN 2317 01:02:53,703 --> 01:02:55,138 ITEM TO SECTION 1 2318 01:02:55,138 --> 01:02:56,205 REGARDING POTENTIAL IMPACTS AND 2319 01:02:56,205 --> 01:02:58,474 IS QUOTED 2320 01:02:58,608 --> 01:02:59,208 HERE. IT WOULD CALL OUT THE 2321 01:02:59,208 --> 01:02:59,442 RIGHTS 2322 01:02:59,442 --> 01:03:01,244 OF FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED 2323 01:03:01,244 --> 01:03:02,812 TRIBES, URBAN INDIANS AND NATIVE 2324 01:03:02,812 --> 01:03:03,713 COMMUNITIES TO EXERCISE 2325 01:03:03,713 --> 01:03:06,015 ANY EXPRESS OR TREATY RIGHTS TO 2326 01:03:06,015 --> 01:03:07,183 ACCESS AND FISH AND ALL THE 2327 01:03:07,183 --> 01:03:11,020 USUAL AND CUSTOM PLACES THAT HAS 2328 01:03:11,020 --> 01:03:12,955 ACURED SINCE 2329 01:03:12,955 --> 01:03:15,024 TIME IMMEMORIAL. THE SPONSOR OF 2330 01:03:15,024 --> 01:03:16,092 THIS AMENDMENT IS 2331 01:03:16,092 --> 01:03:16,926 COUNCILMEMBER 2332 01:03:16,926 --> 01:03:17,260 STRAUSS. 2333 01:03:17,260 --> 01:03:19,128 >> ALL RIGHT, KEEP 2334 01:03:19,128 --> 01:03:19,362 GOING? 2335 01:03:19,362 --> 01:03:22,732 >> THAT ROUNDS OUT THE ITEMS 2336 01:03:22,732 --> 01:03:23,599 THAT ARE PREPARED TO SPEAK 2337 01:03:23,599 --> 01:03:24,534 TO FROM THE SLIDES. 2338 01:03:24,534 --> 01:03:25,868 HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS 2339 01:03:25,868 --> 01:03:26,669 AND SUPPORT THE 2340 01:03:26,669 --> 01:03:27,170 CONVERSATION. 2341 01:03:27,170 --> 01:03:27,537 >> ALL RIGHT. 2342 01:03:27,537 --> 01:03:30,273 SO I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT 2343 01:03:30,273 --> 01:03:31,140 AREARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS 2344 01:03:31,140 --> 01:03:33,676 REGARDING THE TWO AMENDMENTS 2345 01:03:33,676 --> 01:03:34,310 BEFORE 2346 01:03:34,310 --> 01:03:37,146 WE ACTUALLY GO INTO 2347 01:03:37,146 --> 01:03:37,713 AMENDING AND ADDRESSING THE 2348 01:03:37,713 --> 01:03:42,318 ACTUAL AMENDMENTS, CORRECT? 2349 01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:44,420 YEAH, OKAY. 2350 01:03:44,420 --> 01:03:45,688 OH, I'M SORRY. 2351 01:03:45,688 --> 01:03:47,690 I DIDN'T SEE 2352 01:03:47,690 --> 01:03:47,957 YOU. 2353 01:03:47,957 --> 01:03:48,658 >> NO WORRIES. 2354 01:03:48,658 --> 01:03:49,659 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 2355 01:03:49,659 --> 01:03:54,063 THANK YOU, ERIC, FOR THIS 2356 01:03:54,063 --> 01:03:56,699 OVERVIEW -- EXCUSE ME. 2357 01:03:56,699 --> 01:03:58,835 FIRST, A BRIEF NOTE. 2358 01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:00,970 I HAVE PREVIOUSLY REACHED OUT 2359 01:04:00,970 --> 01:04:03,573 TO SEATTLE ETHICS AND ELECTION 2360 01:04:03,573 --> 01:04:04,874 COMMISSION DIRECTOR WAIN BARNETT 2361 01:04:04,874 --> 01:04:06,175 SEEKING GUIDANCE BECAUSE MY 2362 01:04:06,175 --> 01:04:08,477 WIFE, SPOUSE, WORKS 2363 01:04:08,477 --> 01:04:08,711 FOR 2364 01:04:08,711 --> 01:04:10,713 MICROSOFT. SHE IN HER ROLE AND 2365 01:04:10,713 --> 01:04:11,247 CAPACITY 2366 01:04:11,247 --> 01:04:14,483 AT THE COMPANY WORKS WITH DATA 2367 01:04:14,617 --> 01:04:16,853 CENTERS AND MORE SPECIFICALLY 2368 01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:18,654 COMPLIANCE WITH GLOBAL 2369 01:04:18,654 --> 01:04:19,889 DATA CENTER REGULATIONS 2370 01:04:19,889 --> 01:04:20,156 GLOBALLY, 2371 01:04:20,156 --> 01:04:22,725 SO I REACHED OUT SEEKING 2372 01:04:22,725 --> 01:04:22,992 GUIDANCE 2373 01:04:22,992 --> 01:04:25,261 ON A POTENTIAL CONFLICT 2374 01:04:25,261 --> 01:04:25,561 OF 2375 01:04:25,561 --> 01:04:27,296 INTEREST. AND DIRECTOR BARNETT 2376 01:04:27,296 --> 01:04:29,765 ADVISED THAT GIVEN THE GLOBAL 2377 01:04:29,765 --> 01:04:30,366 SCALE OF 2378 01:04:30,366 --> 01:04:32,168 MICROSOFT'S EFFORTS AND MY 2379 01:04:32,168 --> 01:04:33,803 WIFE'S SPECIFIC ROLE IN THAT 2380 01:04:33,803 --> 01:04:35,538 AS OPPOSED TO BROKEN OUT BY 2381 01:04:35,538 --> 01:04:39,542 REGION OR GEOGRAPHY OR 2382 01:04:39,542 --> 01:04:41,577 SPECIFIC LOCATIONS, GLOBAL 2383 01:04:41,577 --> 01:04:41,944 NATURE 2384 01:04:41,944 --> 01:04:44,847 A RECUSAL IS NOT REQUIRED. 2385 01:04:44,847 --> 01:04:46,716 AND MY WIFE JUST FOR WHAT IT'S 2386 01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:47,817 WORTH ALSO DOES NOT 2387 01:04:47,817 --> 01:04:51,887 PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMERCIAL 2388 01:04:51,887 --> 01:04:52,455 DECISIONS TO 2389 01:04:52,455 --> 01:04:55,091 EXPAND OR NOT EXPAND IN 2390 01:04:55,091 --> 01:04:55,458 ANY EVENT. 2391 01:04:55,458 --> 01:04:59,195 JUST WANT TO MY DISCLOSURE GET 2392 01:04:59,195 --> 01:04:59,629 IT ON THE RECORD. 2393 01:04:59,629 --> 01:05:04,834 NOW A QUESTION ABOUT 2394 01:05:04,834 --> 01:05:05,201 THE AMENDMENT. 2395 01:05:05,201 --> 01:05:08,170 SO CURIOUS -- I'M JUST SEEING 2396 01:05:08,170 --> 01:05:17,046 THIS, AND CURIOUS ABOUT THAT 2397 01:05:17,046 --> 01:05:19,715 SECTION 4 PROVISION. 2398 01:05:19,715 --> 01:05:21,284 WHAT -- HOW? 2399 01:05:21,284 --> 01:05:29,325 I CAN SEE WHAT THE TEXT ON 2400 01:05:29,325 --> 01:05:31,027 THE PAPERS SAY. 2401 01:05:31,027 --> 01:05:33,229 BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR 2402 01:05:33,229 --> 01:05:33,429 YOU, 2403 01:05:33,429 --> 01:05:35,998 ERIC? AND MAYBE FROM YOU, MADAM 2404 01:05:35,998 --> 01:05:37,266 CHAIR, WOULD LOVE TO HEAR 2405 01:05:37,266 --> 01:05:38,834 YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT THE 2406 01:05:38,834 --> 01:05:40,069 INTENT IS ON THIS SPECIFIC 2407 01:05:40,069 --> 01:05:40,870 ELEMENT OF THE 2408 01:05:40,870 --> 01:05:41,170 AMENDMENT? 2409 01:05:41,170 --> 01:05:43,639 >> WELL, I'M GOING TO ALLOW -- 2410 01:05:43,639 --> 01:05:44,707 I DON'T HAVE THE ACTUAL IN 2411 01:05:44,707 --> 01:05:45,408 FRONT OF ME. 2412 01:05:45,408 --> 01:05:46,442 WELL, I DO. 2413 01:05:46,442 --> 01:05:50,146 BUT GO AHEAD, 2414 01:05:50,146 --> 01:05:52,148 ERIC. DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT 2415 01:05:52,148 --> 01:05:52,315 THE 2416 01:05:52,315 --> 01:05:55,351 CUSTNER CLASS SECTION 2417 01:05:55,351 --> 01:05:55,785 4? 2418 01:05:55,785 --> 01:05:57,219 >> I'LL START FROM THE 2419 01:05:57,219 --> 01:05:58,621 TECHNICAL AND MOVE TO THE 2420 01:05:58,621 --> 01:05:58,888 CONTENT. 2421 01:05:58,888 --> 01:06:00,389 THE TECHNICAL TUNES UP 2422 01:06:00,389 --> 01:06:01,891 THE AMENDMENT TO MORE CLOSELY 2423 01:06:01,891 --> 01:06:03,459 FOLLOW ALONG THE WAY IN WHICH WE 2424 01:06:03,459 --> 01:06:05,194 EXPECT CITY LIGHT TO PROPOSE A 2425 01:06:05,194 --> 01:06:05,728 NEW CUSTOMER CLASS. 2426 01:06:05,728 --> 01:06:07,163 SO THERE'S SOME WORDS HERE 2427 01:06:07,163 --> 01:06:11,701 THAT MAKE IT MORE ACCURATE TO 2428 01:06:11,701 --> 01:06:12,001 REFLECT 2429 01:06:12,001 --> 01:06:13,169 THE LEGISLATION 2430 01:06:13,169 --> 01:06:14,303 ACTUALLY HAS BEEN TRANSMITTED 2431 01:06:14,303 --> 01:06:14,603 FROM 2432 01:06:14,603 --> 01:06:15,037 CITY LIGHT. 2433 01:06:15,037 --> 01:06:16,806 A 2434 01:06:16,806 --> 01:06:17,440 LITTLE MORE CONTENT. SO EVERY 2435 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,275 TWO YEARS ON A 2436 01:06:19,275 --> 01:06:20,443 REGULAR BASIS AS ESTABLISHED BY 2437 01:06:20,443 --> 01:06:21,510 RESOLUTION, THE CITY LIGHT 2438 01:06:21,510 --> 01:06:25,948 AND THE MAYOR PROPOSE NEW 2439 01:06:25,948 --> 01:06:26,882 RATES ORDINANCES THAT SETS UP 2440 01:06:26,882 --> 01:06:27,049 THE 2441 01:06:27,049 --> 01:06:32,488 RATES FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. 2442 01:06:32,488 --> 01:06:36,258 IT FOLLOWS 2443 01:06:36,258 --> 01:06:37,860 THE RESOURCE PLAN. LATER ON 2444 01:06:37,860 --> 01:06:38,394 THUGENDA TONIGHT 2445 01:06:38,394 --> 01:06:39,462 WE'LL HEAR ABOUT THE IRP. 2446 01:06:39,462 --> 01:06:42,531 THAT'S A REGULAR 2447 01:06:42,531 --> 01:06:43,332 PUNCTUATED MOMENT. 2448 01:06:43,332 --> 01:06:45,067 EVERY TWO YEARS RATES 2449 01:06:45,067 --> 01:06:45,267 ARE 2450 01:06:45,267 --> 01:06:46,302 DISCUSSED. ONE NEW THING FOR 2451 01:06:46,302 --> 01:06:46,602 THIS 2452 01:06:46,602 --> 01:06:48,337 RATES ORDINANCE THAT WILL BE 2453 01:06:48,337 --> 01:06:49,772 COMING TO YOU ALL OVER THE 2454 01:06:49,772 --> 01:06:50,172 SUMMER WILL BE 2455 01:06:50,172 --> 01:06:51,874 TO DISCUSS A NEW RATE CLASS, 2456 01:06:51,874 --> 01:06:54,577 A NEW KIND OF CUSTOMER THAT 2457 01:06:54,577 --> 01:06:54,777 WOULD 2458 01:06:54,777 --> 01:06:55,811 BE ENACTED THROUGH 2459 01:06:55,811 --> 01:07:02,351 THAT LEGISLATION FOR DATA 2460 01:07:02,351 --> 01:07:02,618 CENTERS. 2461 01:07:02,618 --> 01:07:07,757 AND SO THIS IS JUST TO SAY IN 2462 01:07:07,757 --> 01:07:09,825 THIS RESOLUTION TO DEVELOP 2463 01:07:09,825 --> 01:07:11,494 POLICY, BY THE WAY, SECTION 3 2464 01:07:11,494 --> 01:07:12,495 THERE'S A MORATORIUM THE 2465 01:07:12,495 --> 01:07:13,763 SUBJECT OF THE ORDINANCE THAT 2466 01:07:13,763 --> 01:07:13,929 WAS 2467 01:07:13,929 --> 01:07:15,398 TALKED ABOUT EARLIER TODAY, AND 2468 01:07:15,398 --> 01:07:15,631 THEN 2469 01:07:15,631 --> 01:07:17,366 IN SECTION 4 TO SAY IN YET 2470 01:07:17,366 --> 01:07:18,834 ANOTHER ORDINANCE THE CITY'S 2471 01:07:18,834 --> 01:07:19,034 GOING 2472 01:07:19,034 --> 01:07:20,803 TO TAKE UP A POTENTIAL CHANGE 2473 01:07:20,803 --> 01:07:23,139 TO THE CITY LIGHT CODE, THE 2474 01:07:23,139 --> 01:07:25,341 CODE THAT GOVERNS CITY LIGHT TO 2475 01:07:25,341 --> 01:07:26,842 ADD THIS CUSTOMER CLASS. 2476 01:07:26,842 --> 01:07:28,377 SO HOPEFULLY THAT KIND OF 2477 01:07:28,377 --> 01:07:29,478 ROUNDS IT OUT. 2478 01:07:29,478 --> 01:07:31,247 THAT'S MAYBE MORE WORDS THAN 2479 01:07:31,247 --> 01:07:32,648 YOU NEEDED, BUT THAT'S -- THIS 2480 01:07:32,648 --> 01:07:33,783 IS BASICALLY JUST TO 2481 01:07:33,783 --> 01:07:35,584 ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK THAT'S 2482 01:07:35,584 --> 01:07:36,552 UNDERWAY IN 2483 01:07:36,552 --> 01:07:38,988 THIS ASPECT OF THE CITY'S WORK. 2484 01:07:39,121 --> 01:07:39,321 YEAH. 2485 01:07:39,321 --> 01:07:40,756 >> SO THERE'S PARALLEL 2486 01:07:40,756 --> 01:07:42,725 EFFORTS ALREADY UNDERWAY BY 2487 01:07:42,725 --> 01:07:44,727 THE DEPARTMENT TO -- 2488 01:07:44,727 --> 01:07:46,662 THAT CONTEMPLATE, ESSENTIALLY, A 2489 01:07:46,662 --> 01:07:47,396 NEW CUSTOMER CLASS? 2490 01:07:47,396 --> 01:07:51,233 AND SO THIS JUST ALIGNS WITH 2491 01:07:51,233 --> 01:07:51,534 THAT. 2492 01:07:51,667 --> 01:07:52,701 >> A CUSTOMER CLASS -- 2493 01:07:52,701 --> 01:07:54,937 RESIDENTS ARE CUSTOMER CLASS. 2494 01:07:54,937 --> 01:07:56,539 CERTAIN SIZED BUSINESSES 2495 01:07:56,539 --> 01:07:58,174 THAT USE POWER OR A CERTAIN 2496 01:07:58,174 --> 01:07:59,675 AMOUNT ARE CUSTOMER CLASSES, SO 2497 01:07:59,675 --> 01:08:01,644 THIS WOULD BE A CUSTOMER CLASS 2498 01:08:01,644 --> 01:08:03,712 FOR DATA CENTERS AS A 2499 01:08:03,712 --> 01:08:05,815 PARTICULAR KIND OF NEW LARGE 2500 01:08:05,815 --> 01:08:06,182 LOAD CUSTOMER. 2501 01:08:06,315 --> 01:08:07,383 >> GOT IT. 2502 01:08:07,516 --> 01:08:09,485 >> IF I COULD ADD, 2503 01:08:09,485 --> 01:08:10,953 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA, HAVING BEEN 2504 01:08:10,953 --> 01:08:11,687 ON 2505 01:08:11,687 --> 01:08:13,289 SEATTLE CITY LIGHT SINCE 2016 2506 01:08:13,289 --> 01:08:13,456 FOR 2507 01:08:13,456 --> 01:08:16,125 EIGHT YEARS AND THEN BACK, WHEN 2508 01:08:16,125 --> 01:08:16,292 WE 2509 01:08:16,292 --> 01:08:18,060 LOOK AT RATES WE HAVE 2510 01:08:18,060 --> 01:08:18,894 TWO CLASSES -- RESIDENTIAL AND 2511 01:08:18,894 --> 01:08:20,463 BUSINESS, AND WE TRACK THEM. 2512 01:08:20,596 --> 01:08:22,832 AND OF COURSE BUSINESS PAYS MORE 2513 01:08:22,832 --> 01:08:23,766 BECAUSE THEY USE 2514 01:08:23,766 --> 01:08:26,936 MORE. AND WE WANTED TO KIND OF 2515 01:08:26,936 --> 01:08:28,170 PULL 2516 01:08:28,304 --> 01:08:31,173 OUT DATA CENTERS TO BE 2517 01:08:31,173 --> 01:08:33,275 MORE TAYLOR MADE FOR RATES 2518 01:08:33,275 --> 01:08:34,777 AND SHINING A LIGHT ON IT 2519 01:08:34,777 --> 01:08:35,110 BECAUSE WE 2520 01:08:35,110 --> 01:08:37,513 KNOW THAT -- WE DON'T WANT 2521 01:08:37,513 --> 01:08:38,714 THIS CUSTOMER CLASS DATA 2522 01:08:38,714 --> 01:08:39,315 CENTERS, 2523 01:08:39,315 --> 01:08:40,916 WE WANT THEM TO PAY FOR 2524 01:08:40,916 --> 01:08:42,318 THEMSELVES WHEN THE WORK GROUP 2525 01:08:42,318 --> 01:08:42,551 GETS 2526 01:08:42,551 --> 01:08:44,119 TOGETHER. SO IT DOESN'T HURT 2527 01:08:44,119 --> 01:08:45,621 THE RESIDENTIAL AND THE 2528 01:08:45,621 --> 01:08:45,988 BUSINESS SIDE. 2529 01:08:45,988 --> 01:08:47,623 AND I THINK SPOTLIGHTING A 2530 01:08:47,623 --> 01:08:49,792 CUSTOMER 2531 01:08:49,792 --> 01:08:51,660 CLASS THAT'S A DATA CENTER IS 2532 01:08:51,660 --> 01:08:55,331 GOOD BUSINESS AND GOOD 2533 01:08:55,464 --> 01:08:56,599 GUV GOVERNANCE BECAUSE THEN WE 2534 01:08:56,599 --> 01:08:58,567 CAN TRACK AND PULL OUT CUSTOMER 2535 01:08:58,567 --> 01:09:00,002 AND RESIDENTIAL AND SAY THIS IS 2536 01:09:00,002 --> 01:09:01,904 THE DATA WE'RE LOOKING AT AND 2537 01:09:01,904 --> 01:09:03,339 THIS IS HOW MUCH ENERGY AND THIS 2538 01:09:03,339 --> 01:09:03,506 IS 2539 01:09:03,506 --> 01:09:04,206 HOW MUCH PRESSURE IS 2540 01:09:04,206 --> 01:09:05,808 BEING PUT ON THE GRID, AND THIS 2541 01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:06,242 IS WHAT 2542 01:09:06,242 --> 01:09:09,245 WE NEED TO BE PAYING ATTENTION 2543 01:09:09,245 --> 01:09:10,546 TO. REMEMBER WE HAVE A 2544 01:09:10,546 --> 01:09:12,047 MORATORIUM FOR ONE YEAR WHERE 2545 01:09:12,047 --> 01:09:12,348 THE WORKING 2546 01:09:12,348 --> 01:09:13,949 GROUP WILL ADDRESS ALL OF 2547 01:09:13,949 --> 01:09:15,951 THESE MORE TYPE OF TECHIE 2548 01:09:15,951 --> 01:09:16,719 ISSUES, 2549 01:09:16,719 --> 01:09:18,220 BUT WE WANTED TO PUT THE 2550 01:09:18,220 --> 01:09:19,555 PLACEHOLDER IN NOW IN THE 2551 01:09:19,555 --> 01:09:19,855 RESOLUTION, 2552 01:09:19,855 --> 01:09:20,890 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING 2553 01:09:20,890 --> 01:09:21,223 AT. 2554 01:09:21,223 --> 01:09:23,792 I SHOULD SAY WE DIDN'T 2555 01:09:23,792 --> 01:09:24,426 THINK THIS UP ON OUR OWN. 2556 01:09:24,426 --> 01:09:26,195 WE GOT THIS THROUGH 2557 01:09:26,195 --> 01:09:28,464 RESEARCH, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT 2558 01:09:28,464 --> 01:09:28,731 IT LATER, 2559 01:09:28,731 --> 01:09:30,166 IN MEETING WITH AND TALKING 2560 01:09:30,166 --> 01:09:31,667 WITH NOT JUST ENVIRONMENTAL 2561 01:09:31,667 --> 01:09:33,636 GROUPS AND TRIBES BUT OTHER 2562 01:09:33,636 --> 01:09:34,503 LAWYERS AND 2563 01:09:34,503 --> 01:09:35,905 GROUPS THAT HAVE OPPOSED 2564 01:09:35,905 --> 01:09:37,506 IN SUPPORTING DATA CENTERS 2565 01:09:37,506 --> 01:09:38,507 AND ANOTHER CUSTOMER CLASS. 2566 01:09:38,507 --> 01:09:40,209 THIS ISN'T NEW IN THE 2567 01:09:40,209 --> 01:09:41,377 INDUSTRY, BUT IT WOULD BE NEW TO 2568 01:09:41,377 --> 01:09:41,644 SEATTLE. 2569 01:09:41,644 --> 01:09:43,579 IS THAT FAIR TO SAY, ERSNK. 2570 01:09:43,712 --> 01:09:44,747 >> I THINK THAT'S ACCURATE. 2571 01:09:44,747 --> 01:09:46,248 AND MAYBE TO STITCH IN A LITTLE 2572 01:09:46,382 --> 01:09:49,218 BIT MORE. THE CUSTOMER CLASSES 2573 01:09:49,218 --> 01:09:49,518 IN THE CODE 2574 01:09:49,518 --> 01:09:51,520 ARE SET UP SO EACH KIND OF 2575 01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:53,422 CUSTOMER, THE COSTS THEY INCUR 2576 01:09:53,422 --> 01:09:55,157 TO THE UTILITY ARE PAID FOR 2577 01:09:55,157 --> 01:09:57,760 BY THAT KIND OF CUSTOMER, 2578 01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:00,529 AND THAT'S A 2579 01:10:00,529 --> 01:10:01,664 PRINCIPLE THAT HAS TO BE SORT OF 2580 01:10:01,664 --> 01:10:02,798 ADHERED TO BY 2581 01:10:02,798 --> 01:10:03,098 THE 2582 01:10:03,098 --> 01:10:05,367 UTILITY. IN THIS CASE THE 2583 01:10:05,367 --> 01:10:05,901 CUSTOMER 2584 01:10:05,901 --> 01:10:07,136 CLASS AREN'T SPECIAL. 2585 01:10:07,136 --> 01:10:08,604 IT'S JUST A NEW KIND OF 2586 01:10:08,604 --> 01:10:09,872 CUSTOMER AND WE DON'T HAVE IN 2587 01:10:09,872 --> 01:10:10,272 OUR CODE 2588 01:10:10,272 --> 01:10:11,774 TO ADDRESS THOSE KIND OF SPECIAL 2589 01:10:11,774 --> 01:10:12,041 CONCERNS. 2590 01:10:12,174 --> 01:10:12,641 >> 2591 01:10:12,641 --> 01:10:12,875 RIGHT. 2592 01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:14,443 >> SO I'M SORT OF 2593 01:10:14,443 --> 01:10:16,378 REFLECTING BACK WHAT YOU SAID IN 2594 01:10:16,378 --> 01:10:17,913 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TERMS. 2595 01:10:17,913 --> 01:10:18,113 YEAH. 2596 01:10:18,247 --> 01:10:19,515 >> AND RESIDENTS ARE THE 2597 01:10:19,515 --> 01:10:21,216 SHAREHOLDERS BECAUSE WE OWN 2598 01:10:21,350 --> 01:10:23,385 SEATTLE CITY LIGHT. 2599 01:10:23,385 --> 01:10:28,657 >> IT IS A MUNICIPAL UTILITY, 2600 01:10:28,657 --> 01:10:29,825 THAT'S 2601 01:10:29,825 --> 01:10:31,927 RIGHT. 2602 01:10:31,927 --> 01:10:35,331 >> WE'RE THE NUMBER TWO 2603 01:10:35,331 --> 01:10:35,931 ECONOMIC 2604 01:10:36,065 --> 01:10:37,700 EMPLOYER. WE DON'T WANT 2605 01:10:37,700 --> 01:10:38,133 THOSE COSTS PASSED 2606 01:10:38,133 --> 01:10:39,234 ONTO CUSTOMERS. WE WANT DATA 2607 01:10:39,234 --> 01:10:42,304 CENTERS TO PAY FOR 2608 01:10:42,304 --> 01:10:44,273 IT THEMSELVES. 2609 01:10:44,273 --> 01:10:44,740 THANK YOU. 2610 01:10:44,740 --> 01:10:47,543 I HAVE TO GET A COPY OF MY OWN 2611 01:10:47,543 --> 01:10:47,910 RESOLUTION. 2612 01:10:47,910 --> 01:10:49,745 I HAD HAND WRITTEN WHAT I WROTE. 2613 01:10:49,745 --> 01:10:55,150 ANYTHING ELSE, COUNCILMEMBER 2614 01:10:55,150 --> 01:10:55,751 SAKA? 2615 01:10:55,751 --> 01:10:56,685 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 2616 01:10:56,819 --> 01:10:57,319 THANK YOU. 2617 01:10:57,319 --> 01:10:58,787 >> NO, THANK YOU, MADAM 2618 01:10:58,787 --> 01:10:59,121 CHAIR. 2619 01:10:59,121 --> 01:11:00,823 >> LET ME PUT THESE TWO DOWN 2620 01:11:00,956 --> 01:11:02,791 HERE. ALL RIGHT, SO ARE THERE 2621 01:11:02,791 --> 01:11:04,059 ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE 2622 01:11:04,059 --> 01:11:04,260 MOVE 2623 01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:06,562 ON AND I DO THE FIRST AMENDMENT? 2624 01:11:06,562 --> 01:11:09,865 I'M SORRY, GO ON, 2625 01:11:09,865 --> 01:11:10,065 ERIC. 2626 01:11:10,065 --> 01:11:11,500 >> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, I SEE 2627 01:11:11,500 --> 01:11:13,235 HIM UP 2628 01:11:13,235 --> 01:11:13,535 THERE. 2629 01:11:13,535 --> 01:11:16,038 >> I CANNOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE 2630 01:11:16,038 --> 01:11:16,372 SCREEN. 2631 01:11:16,372 --> 01:11:17,139 SORRY, 2632 01:11:17,139 --> 01:11:18,307 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. GO 2633 01:11:18,307 --> 01:11:18,574 AHEAD. 2634 01:11:18,574 --> 01:11:19,241 >> YOU'RE 2635 01:11:19,241 --> 01:11:21,543 FINE, CHAIR. DO YOU WANT ME TO 2636 01:11:21,543 --> 01:11:22,244 ADDRESS MY 2637 01:11:22,244 --> 01:11:23,679 AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO NOW 2638 01:11:23,679 --> 01:11:24,647 OR UNTIL WE 2639 01:11:24,647 --> 01:11:24,947 MOVE IT? 2640 01:11:24,947 --> 01:11:26,382 >> NO, NOT UNTIL WE MOVE IT. 2641 01:11:26,382 --> 01:11:27,916 AFTER WE MOVE, YOU CAN SPEAK, 2642 01:11:27,916 --> 01:11:29,318 AND THEN I'LL SPEAK, AND 2643 01:11:29,318 --> 01:11:30,286 THEN WE'LL VOTE, OKAY? 2644 01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:31,587 ALL RIGHT, GOOD. 2645 01:11:31,587 --> 01:11:36,759 SO WITH THAT, I MOVE TO 2646 01:11:36,759 --> 01:11:39,795 AMEND RESOLUTION 32204 AS 2647 01:11:39,795 --> 01:11:40,062 PRESENTED 2648 01:11:40,062 --> 01:11:40,896 ON AMENDMENT 1. 2649 01:11:40,896 --> 01:11:41,864 IS THERE A SECOND? 2650 01:11:41,997 --> 01:11:42,531 >> 2651 01:11:42,531 --> 01:11:42,931 SECOND. 2652 01:11:42,931 --> 01:11:43,732 >> THANK YOU, 2653 01:11:43,732 --> 01:11:44,166 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. 2654 01:11:44,166 --> 01:11:45,301 IT IS MOVED TO PRESENT 2655 01:11:45,301 --> 01:11:47,236 THE RESOLUTION AS PRESENTED 2656 01:11:47,236 --> 01:11:48,037 AS AMENDMENT 2657 01:11:48,037 --> 01:11:49,405 NUMBER 1. AGAIN, AS I SHARED 2658 01:11:49,405 --> 01:11:51,907 THIS AMENDMENT MAKES TWO 2659 01:11:51,907 --> 01:11:52,441 TECHNICAL 2660 01:11:52,441 --> 01:11:53,008 FIXES, UPDATES THE TITLE 2661 01:11:53,008 --> 01:11:55,310 TO MATCH 2662 01:11:55,310 --> 01:11:56,311 THOSE FIXES, CLARIFIES THE 2663 01:11:56,311 --> 01:11:57,813 LANGUAGE FROM SECTION 4 FROM 2664 01:11:57,813 --> 01:11:59,548 CONSULTATION WITH CITY LIGHT 2665 01:11:59,548 --> 01:12:02,985 AND ADDS A RECITAL INVOLVING 2666 01:12:02,985 --> 01:12:04,319 CUMULATIVE IMPACTS. 2667 01:12:04,319 --> 01:12:06,722 I'M GUESSING THERE ARE NO 2668 01:12:06,722 --> 01:12:07,189 OTHER QUESTIONS. 2669 01:12:07,189 --> 01:12:09,925 IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER COMMENTS 2670 01:12:09,925 --> 01:12:11,093 WILL THE CLERK CALL THE ROLL 2671 01:12:11,093 --> 01:12:13,762 ON THE ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT 2672 01:12:13,762 --> 01:12:14,029 NUMBER 2673 01:12:14,029 --> 01:12:14,863 ONE. 2674 01:12:14,863 --> 01:12:15,597 >> COUNCILMEMBER 2675 01:12:15,597 --> 01:12:16,198 STRAUSS. 2676 01:12:16,198 --> 01:12:16,465 >> 2677 01:12:16,465 --> 01:12:17,866 AYE. 2678 01:12:17,866 --> 01:12:18,667 >> COUNCILMEMBER 2679 01:12:18,667 --> 01:12:19,935 SAKA. 2680 01:12:19,935 --> 01:12:20,202 >> 2681 01:12:20,202 --> 01:12:20,502 AYE. 2682 01:12:20,502 --> 01:12:22,604 >> COUNCILMEMBER 2683 01:12:22,604 --> 01:12:24,340 JUAREZ. 2684 01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:24,506 >> 2685 01:12:24,506 --> 01:12:24,807 AYE. 2686 01:12:24,807 --> 01:12:28,110 >> THREE THREE 2687 01:12:28,110 --> 01:12:28,544 AYES. 2688 01:12:28,544 --> 01:12:29,211 >> I MOVE AMENDMENT TO VERSION 2689 01:12:29,211 --> 01:12:32,081 ONE TO RESOLUTION 2690 01:12:32,081 --> 01:12:32,347 32204. 2691 01:12:32,347 --> 01:12:32,915 >> IT IS SECOND. 2692 01:12:32,915 --> 01:12:34,950 IT HAS NOW BEEN MOVED AND 2693 01:12:34,950 --> 01:12:36,852 SECONDED TO AMEND RESOLUTION 2694 01:12:36,852 --> 01:12:38,854 AS PRESENTED ON AMENDMENT NUMBER 2695 01:12:38,854 --> 01:12:39,655 2. COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, WOULD 2696 01:12:39,655 --> 01:12:41,457 YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR 2697 01:12:41,457 --> 01:12:41,757 AMENDMENT? 2698 01:12:41,757 --> 01:12:42,991 AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE 2699 01:12:42,991 --> 01:12:43,792 DONE, I WILL SPEAK. 2700 01:12:43,792 --> 01:12:46,028 AND I'LL SEE IF 2701 01:12:46,028 --> 01:12:47,596 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA HAS ANYTHING 2702 01:12:47,596 --> 01:12:47,830 TO ADD. 2703 01:12:47,830 --> 01:12:50,132 FLOOR IS YOURS, COUNCILMEMBER 2704 01:12:50,265 --> 01:12:50,532 STRAUSS. 2705 01:12:50,532 --> 01:12:52,701 >> THANK YOU, 2706 01:12:52,701 --> 01:12:53,368 CHAIR JUAREZ. I'LL SPEAK TO THE 2707 01:12:53,368 --> 01:12:53,635 AMENDMENT 2708 01:12:53,635 --> 01:12:55,537 AND THEN GIVE SOME GENERAL 2709 01:12:55,537 --> 01:12:55,804 COMMENTS 2710 01:12:55,804 --> 01:12:56,872 ABOUT WHAT I'VE SEEN 2711 01:12:56,872 --> 01:12:58,974 TODAY IN THIS MEETING AND 2712 01:12:58,974 --> 01:12:59,508 EARLIER. 2713 01:12:59,508 --> 01:13:01,310 THIS AMENDMENT SPECIFICALLY 2714 01:13:01,310 --> 01:13:02,478 REALLY DISCUSSES AND FOCUSES 2715 01:13:02,478 --> 01:13:05,013 ON THE FACT THAT DATA CENTERS 2716 01:13:05,013 --> 01:13:05,948 ARE 2717 01:13:05,948 --> 01:13:07,616 USING OUR WATER 2718 01:13:07,616 --> 01:13:07,983 WITHOUT PROPER 2719 01:13:07,983 --> 01:13:09,318 MANAGEMENT. THEY'RE HEATING OUR 2720 01:13:09,318 --> 01:13:09,718 AIR 2721 01:13:09,718 --> 01:13:12,654 UNNECESSARILY AND OUR 2722 01:13:12,654 --> 01:13:13,722 CLIMATE. THEY'RE USING 2723 01:13:13,722 --> 01:13:15,257 ELECTRICITY AS 2724 01:13:15,257 --> 01:13:16,024 A VERY HIGH RATE, WHICH THEN 2725 01:13:16,024 --> 01:13:18,927 ALSO HAS IMPACTS ON RIVER 2726 01:13:18,927 --> 01:13:20,229 FLOWS OR HOWEVER THAT 2727 01:13:20,229 --> 01:13:21,396 ELECTRICITY IS BEING GENERATED 2728 01:13:21,396 --> 01:13:21,697 THAT ALSO 2729 01:13:21,697 --> 01:13:23,932 HAS THE IMPACTS 2730 01:13:23,932 --> 01:13:25,334 ON RATES. EVERYTHING -- AND JUST 2731 01:13:25,334 --> 01:13:25,501 A 2732 01:13:25,501 --> 01:13:29,538 SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE 2733 01:13:29,538 --> 01:13:34,710 PUBLIC COMMENTERS TODAY. 2734 01:13:34,710 --> 01:13:35,377 I REMEMBER MEETING WITH YOU IN 2735 01:13:35,377 --> 01:13:35,911 OFFICE HOURS AS YOU WERE 2736 01:13:35,911 --> 01:13:36,879 GETTING SOAPBOX PROJECTS STARTED 2737 01:13:36,879 --> 01:13:37,045 UP. 2738 01:13:37,045 --> 01:13:38,847 I'LL GIVE YOU A SHOUTOUT, 2739 01:13:38,847 --> 01:13:39,281 CHAIR JUAREZ. 2740 01:13:39,281 --> 01:13:40,682 I DO OFFICE HOURS BECAUSE 2741 01:13:40,682 --> 01:13:43,719 OF WATCHING YOUR LEADERSHIP OF 2742 01:13:43,719 --> 01:13:43,886 YOU 2743 01:13:43,886 --> 01:13:44,987 HAVING OFFICE HOURS AND 2744 01:13:44,987 --> 01:13:47,456 A DISTRICT OFFICE IN D5. 2745 01:13:47,456 --> 01:13:49,591 AND SO JUST THE LEAD TO 2746 01:13:49,591 --> 01:13:50,859 LEAD SITUATION HERE WHERE YOU 2747 01:13:50,859 --> 01:13:51,460 GAVE 2748 01:13:51,460 --> 01:13:53,262 ME THAT NORTH STAR PRIORITY FOR 2749 01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:54,830 ME TO HAVE OFFICE HOURS. 2750 01:13:54,830 --> 01:13:56,331 YOU'RE OUT HERE AFTER 2751 01:13:56,331 --> 01:13:59,234 MEETING WITH ME SO MANY 2752 01:13:59,234 --> 01:13:59,902 YEARS AGO ADVOCATING FOR THE 2753 01:13:59,902 --> 01:14:00,669 VERY THINGS 2754 01:14:00,669 --> 01:14:03,272 THAT WE NEED BECAUSE IF WE ARE 2755 01:14:03,272 --> 01:14:05,040 NOT CAREFUL WITH DATA CENTERS, 2756 01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:08,744 EVEN JUST THE USE OF 2757 01:14:08,744 --> 01:14:12,681 ELECTRICITY ALL THE OTHER 2758 01:14:12,681 --> 01:14:13,682 EXTERINALITIES CONSTANT WITHOUT 2759 01:14:13,682 --> 01:14:14,716 STRONG REGULATION ABOUT HOW 2760 01:14:14,716 --> 01:14:17,085 THEY'RE USING ELECTRICITY, THE 2761 01:14:17,085 --> 01:14:18,821 IMPLICATIONS CASCADE EVERYWHERE. 2762 01:14:18,821 --> 01:14:20,355 AND SO THAT IS -- THAT IS THE 2763 01:14:20,355 --> 01:14:28,430 CRUX OF THIS AMENDMENT 2764 01:14:28,430 --> 01:14:29,965 BECAUSE WHEN WE ARE TALKING 2765 01:14:29,965 --> 01:14:30,265 ABOUT 2766 01:14:30,265 --> 01:14:37,372 THESE DOWN STREAM IMPACTS, ALL 2767 01:14:37,372 --> 01:14:39,775 THESE EXTERNALTIES, THE ONES WHO 2768 01:14:39,775 --> 01:14:44,713 SUFFER THE MOST ARE 2769 01:14:44,713 --> 01:14:46,849 OUR NATIVE 2770 01:14:46,849 --> 01:14:47,349 AMERICANS OR OUR NATIVE 2771 01:14:47,349 --> 01:14:49,818 COMMUNITIES BECAUSE OF OUR LAWS 2772 01:14:49,818 --> 01:14:57,693 ABOUT USUAL ACCUSTOMED AREAS AND 2773 01:14:57,826 --> 01:14:59,394 RIGHTS THEY'VE PRACTICED SINCE 2774 01:14:59,394 --> 01:15:00,629 TIME IMORRIAL EXCEPT FOR 2775 01:15:00,629 --> 01:15:02,364 THE LAST 200 YEARS. 2776 01:15:02,364 --> 01:15:09,838 SO THIS EMORIAM DOES TWO 2777 01:15:09,838 --> 01:15:10,105 THINGS. 2778 01:15:10,105 --> 01:15:12,841 IT DOES NOT JUST BRING 2779 01:15:12,841 --> 01:15:15,477 INTOINTO FOCUS IT'S NOT JUST 2780 01:15:15,477 --> 01:15:17,212 SEATTLEITES, NOT JUST 2781 01:15:17,212 --> 01:15:17,579 WASHINGTONIANS 2782 01:15:17,579 --> 01:15:19,114 BUT COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE 2783 01:15:19,114 --> 01:15:19,381 STEWARDED 2784 01:15:19,381 --> 01:15:29,791 THIS LAND SINCE TIME I 2785 01:15:56,051 --> 01:15:56,285 MMEMORIAL. 2786 01:15:56,285 --> 01:15:56,818 THE SECOND THING IT DOES 2787 01:15:56,818 --> 01:15:57,419 IMPORTANTLY IS CONTINUES OUR 2788 01:15:57,419 --> 01:15:57,953 WORK TO ENGAGE TRIBES AND 2789 01:15:58,086 --> 01:15:58,687 NATIVE-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN 2790 01:15:58,687 --> 01:15:58,954 OUR WORK. 2791 01:15:58,954 --> 01:15:59,588 AS CHAIRMAN JUAREZ MENTIONS, OUR 2792 01:15:59,721 --> 01:16:00,155 CITY IS NAMED AFTER A 2793 01:16:00,155 --> 01:16:00,789 NATIVE-AMERICAN CHIEF, YET, YOU 2794 01:16:00,789 --> 01:16:01,390 KNOW, FROM THE COAST SAILORS 2795 01:16:01,523 --> 01:16:02,124 PEOPLE, BUT WE USE A PICTURE OF 2796 01:16:02,124 --> 01:16:02,658 A PLAINS NATIVE-AMERICAN 2797 01:16:02,658 --> 01:16:02,891 AS OUR 2798 01:16:02,891 --> 01:16:03,592 SYMBOL. THIS IS VERY APPROPRIATE 2799 01:16:03,592 --> 01:16:04,226 AT BEST, AND WHEN WE DO THIS 2800 01:16:04,226 --> 01:16:06,628 WORK LIKE WE'RE DOING TODAY 2801 01:16:06,628 --> 01:16:09,898 WITHOUT 2802 01:16:09,898 --> 01:16:15,537 INCLUDING FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED 2803 01:16:15,537 --> 01:16:17,506 TRIBES, URBAN AMERICANS 2804 01:16:17,506 --> 01:16:18,173 AND NATIVE-AMERICAN 2805 01:16:18,173 --> 01:16:19,241 COMMUNITIES, WE'RE CONTINUING 2806 01:16:19,241 --> 01:16:19,841 THE 2807 01:16:19,841 --> 01:16:21,743 DISRESPECTFUL NATURE OF 2808 01:16:21,743 --> 01:16:24,346 OUR GOVERNMENT CAN WORK. 2809 01:16:24,346 --> 01:16:24,713 THIS DOES 2810 01:16:24,713 --> 01:16:26,848 TWO THINGS. ONE, IT REALLY CALLS 2811 01:16:26,848 --> 01:16:27,115 OUT 2812 01:16:27,115 --> 01:16:28,450 THE DAWN STREAM IMPACTS THAT 2813 01:16:28,450 --> 01:16:30,218 ARE REQUIRED TO BE MITIGATED 2814 01:16:30,218 --> 01:16:35,257 BASED ON TREATY RIGHTS ECPLICIT 2815 01:16:35,257 --> 01:16:35,524 XPLICIT 2816 01:16:35,524 --> 01:16:35,924 AND 2817 01:16:35,924 --> 01:16:37,192 IMPLICIT. AND SECONDLY, IT 2818 01:16:37,192 --> 01:16:37,459 CONTINUES 2819 01:16:37,459 --> 01:16:38,660 OUR WORK AS A CITY TO CONTINUE 2820 01:16:38,660 --> 01:16:38,827 TO 2821 01:16:38,827 --> 01:16:41,163 DO BETTER AND TO GET BETTER AND 2822 01:16:41,163 --> 01:16:41,396 TO 2823 01:16:41,396 --> 01:16:42,631 TRULY HAVE MEANINGFUL 2824 01:16:42,631 --> 01:16:43,732 GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT 2825 01:16:43,732 --> 01:16:44,132 RELATIONS WITH 2826 01:16:44,132 --> 01:16:45,600 OUR FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES 2827 01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:48,770 AND OUR NATIVE COMMUNITIES. 2828 01:16:48,770 --> 01:16:50,806 COUNCIL PRESIDENT, THAT'S WHAT 2829 01:16:50,806 --> 01:16:53,041 I'VE GOT 2830 01:16:53,041 --> 01:16:54,076 TODAY. I WILL SAY I BELIEVE YOU 2831 01:16:54,076 --> 01:16:54,376 ARE 2832 01:16:54,376 --> 01:16:56,912 THE ONLY ONE OF THE BOOMER 2833 01:16:56,912 --> 01:16:59,948 GENERATION ON THE CITY 2834 01:16:59,948 --> 01:17:01,216 COUNCIL, AND YOU ARE THE MOST 2835 01:17:01,216 --> 01:17:03,185 EXPERIENCED OUT OF ALL OF US IN 2836 01:17:03,185 --> 01:17:05,053 REGULATING A.I. AND DATA 2837 01:17:05,053 --> 01:17:05,320 CENTERS. 2838 01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:06,922 I'VE JUST BEEN GRATEFUL 2839 01:17:06,922 --> 01:17:07,923 AND IMPRESSED WITH HOW YOU HAVE 2840 01:17:07,923 --> 01:17:10,192 BEEN TRACKING 2841 01:17:10,192 --> 01:17:11,593 AND STAYING FOCUSED ON A.I. AND 2842 01:17:11,593 --> 01:17:12,661 EDUCATING ME QUITE A 2843 01:17:12,794 --> 01:17:14,463 BIT. I MIGHT BE YOUNGER THAN 2844 01:17:14,463 --> 01:17:14,830 YOU, BUT 2845 01:17:14,830 --> 01:17:20,302 I MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT 2846 01:17:20,302 --> 01:17:23,038 MORE OF A -- AND I WANTED TO 2847 01:17:23,038 --> 01:17:23,238 CALL 2848 01:17:23,238 --> 01:17:24,239 THAT OUT AND APPRECIATE THAT 2849 01:17:24,239 --> 01:17:26,575 YOU'VE BEEN A LEADER ON OUR 2850 01:17:26,575 --> 01:17:26,875 COUNCIL 2851 01:17:26,875 --> 01:17:29,144 IN THE A.I. REGULATION SPACE. 2852 01:17:29,144 --> 01:17:30,412 LASTLY, WANT TO CALL OUT 2853 01:17:30,412 --> 01:17:31,713 THE FACT WE'VE HAD 2854 01:17:31,713 --> 01:17:35,484 CONVERSATIONS TODAY ABOUT MEGA- 2855 01:17:35,484 --> 01:17:35,684 BARS, 2856 01:17:35,684 --> 01:17:37,085 MEGA-AMPS, I APPRECIATED THE 2857 01:17:37,085 --> 01:17:39,421 PUBLIC COMMENT ABOUT 2858 01:17:39,554 --> 01:17:39,955 MEGA-REGULATIONS. 2859 01:17:39,955 --> 01:17:40,756 >> THAT WAS A GOOD ONE. 2860 01:17:40,889 --> 01:17:42,891 >> THIS IS TRULY GEEK 2861 01:17:42,891 --> 01:17:43,191 LEVEL TALK. 2862 01:17:43,191 --> 01:17:44,760 CAN'T THANK Y'ALL 2863 01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:45,160 ENOUGH. 2864 01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:46,561 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 2865 01:17:46,561 --> 01:17:46,862 STRAUSS. 2866 01:17:46,862 --> 01:17:49,297 ERIC, I APOLOGIZE. 2867 01:17:49,297 --> 01:17:52,067 I KIND OF JUMPED THE GUN ON YOU. 2868 01:17:52,067 --> 01:17:53,602 USUALLY WE READ THE 2869 01:17:53,602 --> 01:17:54,670 POWERPOINT BEFORE I HAND IT OFF 2870 01:17:54,670 --> 01:17:55,337 TO 2871 01:17:55,337 --> 01:17:55,504 A 2872 01:17:55,504 --> 01:17:58,206 COUNCILMEMBER. WE 2873 01:17:58,206 --> 01:17:58,907 DIDN'T ACTUALLY -- YOU DIDN'T 2874 01:17:58,907 --> 01:17:59,775 ACTUALLY GO 2875 01:17:59,775 --> 01:18:02,310 THROUGH AMENDMENT TWO AND READ 2876 01:18:02,310 --> 01:18:04,012 THE RIGHTS OF -- 2877 01:18:04,146 --> 01:18:04,379 RIGHT? 2878 01:18:04,379 --> 01:18:05,147 >> I THINK I COVERED 2879 01:18:05,147 --> 01:18:05,414 IT. 2880 01:18:05,414 --> 01:18:07,516 >> THROUGH THE WHOLE THING, 2881 01:18:07,649 --> 01:18:09,384 OKAY. I'M SORRY, I WAS BUSY 2882 01:18:09,384 --> 01:18:09,651 WRITING. 2883 01:18:09,651 --> 01:18:11,553 I WANT TODAY MAKE SURE I 2884 01:18:11,553 --> 01:18:12,020 DIDN'T SKIP 2885 01:18:12,020 --> 01:18:12,387 YOU. 2886 01:18:12,387 --> 01:18:13,455 >> HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY 2887 01:18:13,455 --> 01:18:14,523 QUESTIONS, BUT I THINK IT'S 2888 01:18:14,523 --> 01:18:15,490 BEEN DESCRIBED AND IT'S ALSO 2889 01:18:15,490 --> 01:18:15,724 PRESENT 2890 01:18:15,724 --> 01:18:17,092 ON THE 2891 01:18:17,092 --> 01:18:17,392 SLIDE. 2892 01:18:17,392 --> 01:18:18,894 >> I HAD SOME COMMENTS, BUT I 2893 01:18:18,894 --> 01:18:20,529 WANT TODAY SEE IF 2894 01:18:20,529 --> 01:18:21,396 THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE FROM ANY 2895 01:18:21,396 --> 01:18:21,563 OF 2896 01:18:21,563 --> 01:18:22,764 MY 2897 01:18:22,764 --> 01:18:23,198 OTHER COLLEAGUES. 2898 01:18:23,198 --> 01:18:25,434 OKAY. NOT SEEING THAT -- 2899 01:18:25,567 --> 01:18:27,002 >> THE AMENDMENT OR THE -- 2900 01:18:27,135 --> 01:18:28,270 >> ON THIS AMENDMENT. 2901 01:18:28,270 --> 01:18:29,738 AT THE END YOU CAN DO 2902 01:18:29,738 --> 01:18:31,940 COMMENTS ON THE BILL. 2903 01:18:31,940 --> 01:18:32,474 DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ON 2904 01:18:32,474 --> 01:18:33,842 AMENDMENT 2? 2905 01:18:33,842 --> 01:18:34,042 OKAY. 2906 01:18:34,042 --> 01:18:35,911 I AM GOING TO READ THIS INTO THE 2907 01:18:35,911 --> 01:18:37,279 RECORD, AND I WANT TO 2908 01:18:37,279 --> 01:18:38,313 THANK COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS FOR 2909 01:18:38,313 --> 01:18:39,514 ADDING THE AMENDMENT INCLUDING 2910 01:18:39,514 --> 01:18:41,116 THE RIGHTS OF FEDERALLY 2911 01:18:41,116 --> 01:18:41,416 RECOGNIZED 2912 01:18:41,416 --> 01:18:43,218 TRIBES, WHICH ARE TREATY- BASED 2913 01:18:43,218 --> 01:18:44,152 OF COURSE, AND OUR 2914 01:18:44,152 --> 01:18:45,087 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT. 2915 01:18:45,087 --> 01:18:46,555 AND WE SHOULD ADD THAT 2916 01:18:46,555 --> 01:18:48,824 TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS IN INDIGENOUS 2917 01:18:48,824 --> 01:18:50,926 LED COMMUNITIES ARE IN 2918 01:18:50,926 --> 01:18:51,560 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS' 2919 01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:52,094 COMMITTEE ALONG WITH 2920 01:18:52,094 --> 01:18:55,063 THE INDIGENOUS ADVISORY COUNCIL, 2921 01:18:55,063 --> 01:18:57,032 SO THAT'S WHERE THIS -- 2922 01:18:57,032 --> 01:18:58,667 ALL THESE DISCUSSIONS HAVE 2923 01:18:58,667 --> 01:18:59,034 COME FROM. 2924 01:18:59,034 --> 01:19:00,035 ANYWAY, THESE ARE THE 2925 01:19:00,035 --> 01:19:01,203 POINTS I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE 2926 01:19:01,203 --> 01:19:04,206 GET ON THE 2927 01:19:04,206 --> 01:19:04,473 RECORD. 2928 01:19:04,473 --> 01:19:04,906 THERE ARE 29 2929 01:19:04,906 --> 01:19:06,641 FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIAN 2930 01:19:06,641 --> 01:19:06,875 TRIBES 2931 01:19:06,875 --> 01:19:08,944 IN SUBSTANTIAL POPULATIONS OF 2932 01:19:08,944 --> 01:19:09,144 URBAN 2933 01:19:09,144 --> 01:19:10,278 INDIANS AND NATIVE COMMUNITIES 2934 01:19:10,278 --> 01:19:11,146 IN WASHINGTON STATE. 2935 01:19:11,146 --> 01:19:12,681 TREATIES BETWEEN THE U.S. 2936 01:19:12,681 --> 01:19:14,182 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND 2937 01:19:14,182 --> 01:19:15,317 SOVEREIGN TRIBAL NATIONS 2938 01:19:15,317 --> 01:19:15,617 ESTABLISH 2939 01:19:15,617 --> 01:19:16,852 THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES 2940 01:19:16,852 --> 01:19:18,453 OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO 2941 01:19:18,453 --> 01:19:18,687 TRIBAL 2942 01:19:18,687 --> 01:19:19,955 NATIONS. IN WASHINGTON STATE 2943 01:19:19,955 --> 01:19:21,957 THESE TREATIES INCLUDE THE 2944 01:19:21,957 --> 01:19:23,892 TREATY OF POINT ELLIOT, THE 2945 01:19:23,892 --> 01:19:25,594 TREATY OF 2946 01:19:25,594 --> 01:19:28,363 1855, THE TREATO OF POINT NO 2947 01:19:28,363 --> 01:19:29,798 POINT, AMONG OTHERS. 2948 01:19:29,798 --> 01:19:30,532 MANY TREATIES ESTABLISH 2949 01:19:30,532 --> 01:19:32,467 THE RIGHTS OF TRIBES, THEIR 2950 01:19:32,467 --> 01:19:33,835 MEMBERS, AND OTHER NATIVE 2951 01:19:33,835 --> 01:19:34,302 AMERICANS 2952 01:19:34,302 --> 01:19:36,404 TO ASSESS WATERWAYS AND FISH IN 2953 01:19:36,404 --> 01:19:37,639 USUAL CUSTOM PLACES AND AREAS. 2954 01:19:37,639 --> 01:19:39,774 THESE TREATY RIGHTS ARE 2955 01:19:39,774 --> 01:19:41,643 ACTIVELY UTILIZE UNDER TRIBES 2956 01:19:41,643 --> 01:19:42,611 TODAY FOR 2957 01:19:42,611 --> 01:19:44,946 FOOD, CULTURAL 2958 01:19:44,946 --> 01:19:46,314 TRADITIONS, ECONOMIC RESOURCE 2959 01:19:46,314 --> 01:19:46,648 STEWARDSHIP. 2960 01:19:46,648 --> 01:19:49,985 THE 1989 CENTENNIAL 2961 01:19:49,985 --> 01:19:52,420 ACCORD ESTABLISHED THE RIGHT 2962 01:19:52,420 --> 01:19:53,622 TO GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT 2963 01:19:53,622 --> 01:19:54,823 RELGDSSHIP BETWEEN 2964 01:19:54,823 --> 01:19:56,458 SOVEREIGN TRIBES IN 2965 01:19:56,458 --> 01:19:57,159 WASHINGTON STATE. THE 2966 01:19:57,159 --> 01:19:58,226 RELATIONSHIP AND 2967 01:19:58,226 --> 01:19:59,461 REGULAR GATHERING ALLOWS 2968 01:19:59,461 --> 01:20:03,031 FOR DISCUSSION ON SOVEREIGNS 2969 01:20:03,031 --> 01:20:03,899 BETWEEN 2970 01:20:03,899 --> 01:20:05,100 WATERWAYS, HEALTH, ACCESS AND 2971 01:20:05,100 --> 01:20:05,400 RESOURCES. 2972 01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,169 THE VAST MAJORITY OF TRIBES IN 2973 01:20:07,169 --> 01:20:08,870 WASHINGTON STATE ARE ADJACENT 2974 01:20:08,870 --> 01:20:10,605 TO WATERWAYS AND TRIBUTARIES, 2975 01:20:10,605 --> 01:20:12,040 ELYING ON ACCESS TO WATER 2976 01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:14,643 RESOURCES AFFECTED BY 2977 01:20:14,643 --> 01:20:15,744 CONFLICTING USES. 2978 01:20:15,744 --> 01:20:18,580 AS WE JUST SAW A COUPLE WEEKS 2979 01:20:18,580 --> 01:20:24,319 AGO, THIS COMMITTEE AND OUR 2980 01:20:24,319 --> 01:20:33,028 SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED 2981 01:20:33,161 --> 01:20:36,832 THE HYDRO SETTLEMENT ON 2982 01:20:36,832 --> 01:20:39,234 DAMS THAT HAVE BEEN PENDING 2983 01:20:39,234 --> 01:20:39,434 SINCE 2984 01:20:39,434 --> 01:20:41,136 THE LATE '90s. 2985 01:20:41,136 --> 01:20:42,704 WITH 2986 01:20:42,704 --> 01:20:43,371 THAT BEING SAID, IT'S BEEN READ 2987 01:20:43,371 --> 01:20:43,838 INTO 2988 01:20:43,838 --> 01:20:46,074 THE RECORD. ARE THERE ANY 2989 01:20:46,074 --> 01:20:46,474 FURTHER COMMENTS? 2990 01:20:46,474 --> 01:20:47,842 WITH NOT SEEING ANY, WILL 2991 01:20:47,842 --> 01:20:50,478 THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLL 2992 01:20:50,478 --> 01:20:50,645 ON 2993 01:20:50,645 --> 01:20:52,681 ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT NUMBER 2994 01:20:52,814 --> 01:20:53,048 TWO? 2995 01:20:53,048 --> 01:20:53,682 >> COUNCILMEMBER 2996 01:20:53,682 --> 01:20:53,949 STRAUSS. 2997 01:20:53,949 --> 01:20:54,115 >> 2998 01:20:54,115 --> 01:20:54,549 AYE. 2999 01:20:54,549 --> 01:20:55,383 >> COUNCILMEMBER 3000 01:20:55,383 --> 01:20:56,484 SAKA. 3001 01:20:56,484 --> 01:20:56,885 >> 3002 01:20:56,885 --> 01:20:57,385 AYE. 3003 01:20:57,385 --> 01:21:00,388 >> COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ. 3004 01:21:00,522 --> 01:21:00,689 >> 3005 01:21:00,689 --> 01:21:00,956 AYE. 3006 01:21:00,956 --> 01:21:01,590 >> THERE ARE THREE AYES. 3007 01:21:01,723 --> 01:21:02,157 >> THANK YOU. 3008 01:21:02,157 --> 01:21:03,825 AND THE MOTION IS ADOPTED. 3009 01:21:03,825 --> 01:21:06,862 THAT BEING SAID, BEFORE WE CLOSE 3010 01:21:06,862 --> 01:21:08,430 HERE, ARE THERE ANY 3011 01:21:08,430 --> 01:21:11,499 OTHER COMMENTS ON THE RESOLUTION 3012 01:21:11,499 --> 01:21:12,434 AS 3013 01:21:12,434 --> 01:21:12,701 AMENDED? 3014 01:21:12,701 --> 01:21:14,836 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA, THIS 3015 01:21:14,836 --> 01:21:19,407 WOULD BE IF THERE'S A CHANCE, 3016 01:21:19,407 --> 01:21:20,976 IF THERE 3017 01:21:20,976 --> 01:21:23,345 ARE ANY OTHER CLOSING COMMENTS 3018 01:21:23,478 --> 01:21:24,179 BEFORE I MAKE SOME FINAL 3019 01:21:24,179 --> 01:21:24,646 COMMENTS, CORRECT? 3020 01:21:24,646 --> 01:21:26,147 ANYTHING YOU WANT TO 3021 01:21:26,147 --> 01:21:26,414 ADD? 3022 01:21:26,414 --> 01:21:27,882 >> SURE, YEAH. 3023 01:21:27,882 --> 01:21:29,217 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 3024 01:21:29,217 --> 01:21:31,353 FIRST OFF, CHAIR, WOULD LOVE 3025 01:21:31,353 --> 01:21:32,020 TO SAY THANK YOU. 3026 01:21:32,020 --> 01:21:34,456 THANK YOU, CHAIR, FOR YOUR 3027 01:21:34,456 --> 01:21:36,825 LEADERSHIP ON THIS IMPORTANT 3028 01:21:36,825 --> 01:21:37,292 ISSUE. 3029 01:21:37,292 --> 01:21:40,862 THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISION. 3030 01:21:40,862 --> 01:21:41,830 THANK YOU FOR ALL THE 3031 01:21:41,830 --> 01:21:44,266 HARDWORK THAT YOU AND YOUR 3032 01:21:44,266 --> 01:21:46,868 OFFICE HAVE 3033 01:21:46,868 --> 01:21:49,437 PUT INTO AND CREATING THIS 3034 01:21:49,437 --> 01:21:54,976 LEGISLATION BEFORE US AND ALSO 3035 01:21:55,110 --> 01:21:55,610 PARTNERING CLOSELY WITH 3036 01:21:55,610 --> 01:21:56,211 COUNCILMEMBER LIN'S OFFICE 3037 01:21:56,211 --> 01:21:57,012 AND THE PARALLEL BILL 3038 01:21:57,012 --> 01:21:58,480 RUNNING THROUGH HIS LAND USE 3039 01:21:58,480 --> 01:21:58,780 COMMITTEE. 3040 01:21:58,780 --> 01:22:00,215 THIS IS IMPORTANT WORK. 3041 01:22:00,215 --> 01:22:02,250 THIS IS -- THE WORK WE'RE 3042 01:22:02,250 --> 01:22:04,252 DOING HERE TODAY COULD 3043 01:22:04,252 --> 01:22:07,022 POTENTIALLY HELP SHAPE THE 3044 01:22:07,022 --> 01:22:10,792 FUTURE OF 3045 01:22:10,792 --> 01:22:12,927 OUR ENVIRONMENT, OF OUR ECONOMY, 3046 01:22:12,927 --> 01:22:14,562 OF THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE 3047 01:22:14,562 --> 01:22:15,697 WITH TECHNOLOGY FOR DECADES TO 3048 01:22:15,697 --> 01:22:16,064 COME. 3049 01:22:16,064 --> 01:22:18,300 SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU, MADAM 3050 01:22:18,300 --> 01:22:22,971 CHAIR, FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE 3051 01:22:22,971 --> 01:22:23,505 ON THIS. 3052 01:22:23,505 --> 01:22:24,739 AND I ESPECIALLY WANT TO 3053 01:22:24,739 --> 01:22:26,441 THANK THE PUBLIC COMMENTERS WHO 3054 01:22:26,441 --> 01:22:28,243 HAVE 3055 01:22:28,243 --> 01:22:28,877 TAKEN THE TIME TO COME OUT AND 3056 01:22:28,877 --> 01:22:29,944 TESTIFY, MANY WHICH HAVE 3057 01:22:29,944 --> 01:22:31,246 STAYED OVER AT MULTIPLE 3058 01:22:31,246 --> 01:22:31,513 MEETINGS. 3059 01:22:31,513 --> 01:22:32,847 I HOPE YOU WERE ABLE TO 3060 01:22:32,847 --> 01:22:34,015 GRAB SOME LUNCH IN BETWEEN 3061 01:22:34,015 --> 01:22:39,254 THE MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. 3062 01:22:39,254 --> 01:22:42,057 AND I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW 3063 01:22:42,057 --> 01:22:44,759 THAT YOUR PERSPECTIVE MATTERS. 3064 01:22:44,759 --> 01:22:46,661 WE'RE ALL LISTENING 3065 01:22:46,661 --> 01:22:48,129 TO YOU. I'M LISTENING TO YOU. 3066 01:22:48,129 --> 01:22:49,597 MY OFFICE HAS 3067 01:22:49,597 --> 01:22:53,601 PERSONALLY RECEIVED 3068 01:22:53,601 --> 01:22:54,035 THOUSANDSTHOUSANDS 3069 01:22:54,035 --> 01:22:56,237 COMMS ABOUT THIS ONE SPECIFIC 3070 01:22:56,237 --> 01:22:56,471 TOPIC, 3071 01:22:56,471 --> 01:23:01,176 VARIOUS E-MAILS, PHONE CALLS, 3072 01:23:01,176 --> 01:23:01,343 ET 3073 01:23:01,343 --> 01:23:02,844 CETERA. I LOVE BEING A LOCAL 3074 01:23:02,844 --> 01:23:04,179 ELECTED OFFICIAL BECAUSE I -- WE 3075 01:23:04,179 --> 01:23:07,015 HAVE WHAT'S CALLED GROCERY 3076 01:23:07,015 --> 01:23:08,616 STORE 3077 01:23:08,616 --> 01:23:10,118 ACCOUNTABILITY, SO WE'RE NOT 3078 01:23:10,118 --> 01:23:10,285 OFF 3079 01:23:10,285 --> 01:23:12,287 IN D.C. OR OLYMPIA. 3080 01:23:12,287 --> 01:23:13,621 WE LITERALLY LIVE IN 3081 01:23:13,621 --> 01:23:14,756 THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE SERVE 3082 01:23:14,756 --> 01:23:15,123 AND REPRESENT. 3083 01:23:15,123 --> 01:23:16,791 SO I'VE HAD PEOPLE PULL ME 3084 01:23:16,791 --> 01:23:20,028 ASIDE AT THE GROCERY STORE 3085 01:23:20,028 --> 01:23:20,261 TELLING 3086 01:23:20,261 --> 01:23:20,729 ME NO DATA CENTERS. 3087 01:23:20,729 --> 01:23:22,764 I'VE HAD FELLOW PARENTS ON THE 3088 01:23:22,764 --> 01:23:24,199 SIDELINES OF BASEBALL 3089 01:23:24,199 --> 01:23:26,935 GAMES WHISPER IN MY EAR, HEY, NO 3090 01:23:26,935 --> 01:23:27,135 DATA 3091 01:23:27,135 --> 01:23:29,537 CENTERS, ROB, ALL RIGHT? 3092 01:23:29,537 --> 01:23:32,407 SO PEOPLE ARE UNDERSTANDABLY 3093 01:23:32,407 --> 01:23:37,345 CONCERNED ABOUT DATA CENTERS 3094 01:23:37,345 --> 01:23:39,914 AND THEIR IMPACT ON OUR 3095 01:23:39,914 --> 01:23:40,682 COMMUNITIES 3096 01:23:40,815 --> 01:23:41,983 LOCALLY. AND THESE CONCERNS ARE 3097 01:23:41,983 --> 01:23:42,217 NOT 3098 01:23:42,217 --> 01:23:45,020 JUST FROM A VOCAL FEW. 3099 01:23:45,020 --> 01:23:48,223 WHEN MOST SEATTLEITES FLIP ON 3100 01:23:48,223 --> 01:23:49,457 A LIGHT SWITCH, THEY 3101 01:23:49,457 --> 01:23:51,593 AREN'T THINKING ABOUT DATA 3102 01:23:51,593 --> 01:23:51,993 CENTERS. 3103 01:23:51,993 --> 01:23:53,294 THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT WHETHER 3104 01:23:53,294 --> 01:23:54,396 THEY CAN AFFORD THEIR UTILITY 3105 01:23:54,396 --> 01:23:56,831 BILL, KEEP THE HEAT ON, OR 3106 01:23:56,831 --> 01:23:59,134 KEEP THEIR SMALL BUSINESS 3107 01:23:59,134 --> 01:24:00,135 RUNNING AND 3108 01:24:00,135 --> 01:24:02,937 PROFITABLE. 3109 01:24:03,071 --> 01:24:04,072 MEAN WEAL, MEANWHILE, SOME OF 3110 01:24:04,072 --> 01:24:04,239 THE 3111 01:24:04,239 --> 01:24:05,573 LARGEST AND MOST PROFITABLE 3112 01:24:05,573 --> 01:24:05,840 COMPANIES 3113 01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:07,675 IN THE WORLD ARE INCREASINGLY 3114 01:24:07,675 --> 01:24:08,610 COMPETING FOR THAT 3115 01:24:08,610 --> 01:24:11,279 SAME ELECTRICITY TO POWER THESE 3116 01:24:11,279 --> 01:24:11,913 DATA 3117 01:24:11,913 --> 01:24:12,247 CENTERS. 3118 01:24:12,247 --> 01:24:15,316 AND THE UNDERLYING A.I. 3119 01:24:15,316 --> 01:24:15,717 INFRASTRUCTURE. 3120 01:24:15,717 --> 01:24:20,522 SIGNIFICANT CLIMATE IMPACTS 3121 01:24:20,522 --> 01:24:24,559 ARE BEING FELT BECAUSE OF THIS. 3122 01:24:24,559 --> 01:24:27,362 THERE'S SUBSTANTIAL STRAINS ON 3123 01:24:27,362 --> 01:24:29,130 THE GRID THAT'S ALREADY 3124 01:24:29,130 --> 01:24:34,636 STRETCHED PRETTY THIN. 3125 01:24:34,636 --> 01:24:40,775 ALL THIS INCREASES RISKS 3126 01:24:40,775 --> 01:24:43,645 OF PRICE HIKES FOR CONSUMERS, 3127 01:24:43,645 --> 01:24:46,681 AND IT'S WHY, AGAIN, AMONG 3128 01:24:46,681 --> 01:24:46,881 OTHER 3129 01:24:46,881 --> 01:24:47,849 REASONS PEOPLE 3130 01:24:47,849 --> 01:24:49,551 ARE UNDERSTANDABLY CONCERNED 3131 01:24:49,551 --> 01:24:51,886 ABOUT DATA CENTER EXPANSION. 3132 01:24:51,886 --> 01:24:54,589 NOW, I SUPPORT INNOVATION AND 3133 01:24:54,589 --> 01:24:55,890 TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT. 3134 01:24:55,890 --> 01:24:57,358 SEATTLE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE 3135 01:24:57,358 --> 01:24:59,761 A PLACE WHERE INNOVATION 3136 01:24:59,761 --> 01:25:01,863 THRIVES AND TECH COMPANIES COME 3137 01:25:01,863 --> 01:25:02,030 TO 3138 01:25:02,030 --> 01:25:05,033 ESTABLISH THEMSELVES AND GROW. 3139 01:25:05,033 --> 01:25:06,668 BUT I ALSO BELIEVE 3140 01:25:06,668 --> 01:25:09,270 EVERYONE DESERVES ACCESS TO 3141 01:25:09,270 --> 01:25:10,004 RELIABLE, 3142 01:25:10,004 --> 01:25:15,577 AFFORDABLE, AND INCREASINGLY 3143 01:25:15,577 --> 01:25:16,911 CLEAN POWER SOURCES. 3144 01:25:16,911 --> 01:25:18,780 GROWTH SHOULD PAY ITS OWN WAY. 3145 01:25:18,780 --> 01:25:20,515 IF COMPANIES WANT TO 3146 01:25:20,515 --> 01:25:21,850 BUILD LARGE- SCALE DATA CENTERS 3147 01:25:21,850 --> 01:25:24,152 AND DRAW SIGNIFICANT 3148 01:25:24,152 --> 01:25:25,587 AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY FROM OUR 3149 01:25:25,587 --> 01:25:26,888 GRID, THEY 3150 01:25:26,888 --> 01:25:29,591 SHOULD, THEREFORE, BE HELPING 3151 01:25:29,591 --> 01:25:31,292 TO STRENGTHEN THAT GRID, 3152 01:25:31,292 --> 01:25:31,559 MODERNIZE 3153 01:25:31,559 --> 01:25:36,097 IT, INVEST IN IT, MAKE IT 3154 01:25:36,231 --> 01:25:38,333 CLEANER. SEATTLE RESIDENTS 3155 01:25:38,333 --> 01:25:38,566 SHOULD 3156 01:25:38,566 --> 01:25:40,935 NOT FACE HIGHER UTILITY 3157 01:25:40,935 --> 01:25:43,304 BILLS, REDUCED RELIABILITY, 3158 01:25:43,304 --> 01:25:44,873 OR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS WHILE 3159 01:25:44,873 --> 01:25:47,408 THE BENEFITS OF THESE CENTERS 3160 01:25:47,408 --> 01:25:48,409 FLOW 3161 01:25:48,409 --> 01:25:48,743 ELSEWHERE. 3162 01:25:48,743 --> 01:25:50,445 THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT TAKING 3163 01:25:50,445 --> 01:25:51,913 A THOUGHTFUL AND DELIBERATE 3164 01:25:51,913 --> 01:25:53,615 APPROACH, AND I THINK 3165 01:25:53,615 --> 01:25:55,850 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT 3166 01:25:55,850 --> 01:26:00,221 THIS IS. BEFORE ALLOWING 3167 01:26:00,221 --> 01:26:00,522 SIGNIFICANT 3168 01:26:00,522 --> 01:26:01,456 EXPANSION, WE NEED A 3169 01:26:01,456 --> 01:26:03,992 CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE 3170 01:26:03,992 --> 01:26:04,826 IMPACTS 3171 01:26:04,826 --> 01:26:07,295 ON GRID RELIABILITY, UTILITY 3172 01:26:07,295 --> 01:26:09,964 RATES, WATER USE, PUBLIC HEALTH, 3173 01:26:09,964 --> 01:26:11,266 AND OUR CLIMATE GOALS. 3174 01:26:11,266 --> 01:26:13,201 WE ALSO NEED TO ENSURE 3175 01:26:13,201 --> 01:26:16,137 SEATTLE RESIDENTS SEE MEANINGFUL 3176 01:26:16,137 --> 01:26:16,905 PUBLIC 3177 01:26:16,905 --> 01:26:17,205 BENEFITS. 3178 01:26:17,205 --> 01:26:19,274 NOT SIMPLY INCREASE DEMAND 3179 01:26:19,274 --> 01:26:22,410 ON OUR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE 3180 01:26:22,410 --> 01:26:23,611 THAT'S ALREADY STRAINED 3181 01:26:23,611 --> 01:26:25,713 WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR 3182 01:26:25,713 --> 01:26:25,980 ELECTRIC 3183 01:26:25,980 --> 01:26:29,217 GRID. ANY FUTURE 3184 01:26:29,217 --> 01:26:29,851 DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT SHOULD 3185 01:26:29,851 --> 01:26:30,485 PROTECT RATE 3186 01:26:30,485 --> 01:26:32,954 PAYERS, SAFEGUARD RELIABILITY, 3187 01:26:32,954 --> 01:26:34,989 ADVANCE CLEAN ENERGY GOALS, 3188 01:26:34,989 --> 01:26:38,359 AND REQUIRE MAJOR ENERGY USERS 3189 01:26:38,359 --> 01:26:40,028 TO CONTRIBUTE TO 3190 01:26:40,028 --> 01:26:40,862 INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS 3191 01:26:40,862 --> 01:26:43,565 NECESSARY TO SUPPORT 3192 01:26:43,565 --> 01:26:49,871 THEIR GROWTH. 3193 01:26:49,871 --> 01:26:52,106 FINALLY, I WANT TO 3194 01:26:52,106 --> 01:26:53,508 NOTE THAT WORDS FROM 3195 01:26:53,508 --> 01:26:55,376 ELECTED OFFICIALS LIKE MYSELF 3196 01:26:55,376 --> 01:26:55,677 MATTER. 3197 01:26:55,677 --> 01:26:56,945 WORDS, ACTIONS, AND 3198 01:26:56,945 --> 01:26:58,947 RHETORIC FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS 3199 01:26:58,947 --> 01:26:59,180 MATTER. 3200 01:26:59,180 --> 01:27:00,381 AND IT IMPACTS 3201 01:27:00,381 --> 01:27:10,925 COMMERCIAL DECISIONS OF OTHERS. 3202 01:27:12,527 --> 01:27:14,062 AND WHAT IS ALSO TRUE IS WORDS 3203 01:27:14,062 --> 01:27:15,330 FROM TECH EXECUTIVES MATTER 3204 01:27:15,330 --> 01:27:15,597 AS WELL. 3205 01:27:15,597 --> 01:27:19,234 WE'RE SPEAKING TO PEOPLE, 3206 01:27:19,234 --> 01:27:22,103 DECISION MAKERS AND PRIVATE 3207 01:27:22,103 --> 01:27:25,640 ORGANIZATIONS ARE LISTENING. 3208 01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,141 WHEN TECH EXECUTIVES 3209 01:27:27,141 --> 01:27:28,676 ARE SPEAKING TO PEOPLE WHETHER 3210 01:27:28,676 --> 01:27:29,544 AT 3211 01:27:29,544 --> 01:27:32,180 AN INTERNAL COMPANY ALL- HANDS 3212 01:27:32,180 --> 01:27:34,148 MEETING, TOWNHALL, 3213 01:27:34,148 --> 01:27:35,550 WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED, 3214 01:27:35,550 --> 01:27:35,917 THEY'RE NOT 3215 01:27:35,917 --> 01:27:38,019 JUST SPEAKING TO THEIR 3216 01:27:38,019 --> 01:27:38,386 EMPLOYEES, NOT 3217 01:27:38,386 --> 01:27:40,855 JUST SPEAKING TO THEIR BUSINESS 3218 01:27:40,855 --> 01:27:41,222 PARTNERS. 3219 01:27:41,222 --> 01:27:42,523 THEY'RE NOT JUST SPEAKING 3220 01:27:42,523 --> 01:27:45,059 TO THEIR INDUSTRY ASSOCIATES AT 3221 01:27:45,059 --> 01:27:45,260 A 3222 01:27:45,260 --> 01:27:46,160 CONFERENCE. THEY'RE NOT JUST 3223 01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:46,427 SPEAKING 3224 01:27:46,427 --> 01:27:49,330 TO THEIR INVESTORS OR THEIR 3225 01:27:49,330 --> 01:27:49,664 SHAREHOLDERS. 3226 01:27:49,664 --> 01:27:52,133 WE'RE ALL LISTENING, TOO. 3227 01:27:52,133 --> 01:27:55,036 SO WORDS MATTER, AND THAT 3228 01:27:55,036 --> 01:27:56,904 RELATIONSHIP IS FULLY MUTUAL, 3229 01:27:56,904 --> 01:27:57,872 FULLY RECIPROCAL. 3230 01:27:57,872 --> 01:28:05,046 AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE WHEN I 3231 01:28:05,046 --> 01:28:06,914 HEAR OLD PREDICTIVE STATES 3232 01:28:06,914 --> 01:28:12,987 FROM TECH LEADERS LIKE SUCH AS 3233 01:28:12,987 --> 01:28:15,523 A.I. 3234 01:28:15,523 --> 01:28:22,296 WILL REPLACE ALL HUMANS, 3235 01:28:22,296 --> 01:28:23,031 RESULT IN THE SIGNIFICANT 3236 01:28:23,031 --> 01:28:23,331 CUTTING OF 3237 01:28:23,331 --> 01:28:25,967 ALL KINDS OF JOBS, AS A 3238 01:28:25,967 --> 01:28:28,670 LAWMAKER AND AS A REGULATOR 3239 01:28:28,670 --> 01:28:28,936 LOCALLY, 3240 01:28:28,936 --> 01:28:30,204 I GET 3241 01:28:30,204 --> 01:28:32,473 NERVOUS. I GET HEARTBURN ABOUT 3242 01:28:32,473 --> 01:28:32,674 THAT. 3243 01:28:32,674 --> 01:28:37,178 AND WHEN YOU LAYER ON THE KNOWN 3244 01:28:37,178 --> 01:28:38,413 DETRIMENTAL 3245 01:28:38,413 --> 01:28:39,914 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, THE 3246 01:28:39,914 --> 01:28:42,050 IMPACTS ON OUR 3247 01:28:42,050 --> 01:28:44,085 CLIMATE, THE IMPACTS ON 3248 01:28:44,085 --> 01:28:45,119 AFFORDABILITY, THE POTENTIAL 3249 01:28:45,119 --> 01:28:47,989 IMPACTS ON STRAINING OUR GRID, 3250 01:28:47,989 --> 01:28:51,192 PASSING THOSE COSTS OFF 3251 01:28:51,192 --> 01:28:51,893 POTENTIALLY TO 3252 01:28:51,893 --> 01:28:53,761 CONSUMERS, THAT -- THAT HELPS ME 3253 01:28:53,761 --> 01:28:53,961 KNOW 3254 01:28:53,961 --> 01:28:58,099 MAYBE THIS INDUSTRY ISIS FOR 3255 01:28:58,099 --> 01:29:08,443 GREATER REGULATION. 3256 01:29:09,277 --> 01:29:11,879 AND SO WORDS MATTER. 3257 01:29:11,879 --> 01:29:13,548 I WAS ALSO PLEASED WHEN ONE OF 3258 01:29:13,548 --> 01:29:17,351 THE CEOs OF OPEN A.I. LAST WEEK 3259 01:29:17,485 --> 01:29:19,821 WALKED HIS STATEMENTS BACK, OH, 3260 01:29:19,821 --> 01:29:21,089 IT WASN'T AS BAD, I GUESS. 3261 01:29:21,089 --> 01:29:23,958 OKAY, ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALWAYS 3262 01:29:23,958 --> 01:29:24,559 GOING TO MAKE INTEREST -- 3263 01:29:24,559 --> 01:29:25,693 DECISIONS IN THEIR BEST 3264 01:29:25,693 --> 01:29:32,500 INTERESTS, AND THAT'S TOTALLY 3265 01:29:32,500 --> 01:29:33,234 UNDERSTANDABLE. 3266 01:29:33,234 --> 01:29:35,369 I INTEND TO DO AS MUCH AS IT 3267 01:29:35,369 --> 01:29:36,904 WITH THEM AS POSSIBLE OR 3268 01:29:36,904 --> 01:29:37,205 INFORM 3269 01:29:37,205 --> 01:29:38,573 THEIR DECISION. WE'RE MAKING 3270 01:29:38,573 --> 01:29:38,840 DECISIONS 3271 01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:40,475 INFORMED BY OUR POLICY CHOICES 3272 01:29:40,475 --> 01:29:40,675 PAST, 3273 01:29:40,675 --> 01:29:41,876 PRESENT, AND FUTURE AND 3274 01:29:41,876 --> 01:29:43,611 THE DEMANDS THAT WE'RE HEARING 3275 01:29:43,611 --> 01:29:52,320 FROM OUR CONSTITUENTS. 3276 01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:53,588 SO AT IT'S CORE I THINK 3277 01:29:53,588 --> 01:29:54,355 THIS IS ABOUT FAIRNESS. 3278 01:29:54,355 --> 01:29:56,357 TO CLOSEOUT, AT ITS CORE I 3279 01:29:56,357 --> 01:29:58,926 THINK THIS IS ABOUT FAIRNESS. 3280 01:29:58,926 --> 01:29:59,894 IF THEY WANT TO TAP INTO 3281 01:29:59,894 --> 01:30:01,362 SEATTLE'S POWER GRID THEY 3282 01:30:01,362 --> 01:30:03,965 SHOULD HELP TO STRENGTHEN IT. 3283 01:30:03,965 --> 01:30:04,832 THAT'S A REASONABLE 3284 01:30:04,832 --> 01:30:05,166 EXPECTATION. 3285 01:30:05,166 --> 01:30:07,034 YOU CAN'T JUST OPEN CENTERS 3286 01:30:07,034 --> 01:30:09,103 HERE AND EXPECT PROFITS AND 3287 01:30:09,103 --> 01:30:09,370 BENEFITS 3288 01:30:09,370 --> 01:30:10,772 ACROSS WASHINGTON, THE SILICON 3289 01:30:10,772 --> 01:30:11,639 VALLEY, WHATEVER. 3290 01:30:11,639 --> 01:30:13,775 WE NEED A BETTER, MORE FAIR 3291 01:30:13,775 --> 01:30:16,878 ALLOCATION OF THE BENEFITS AND 3292 01:30:16,878 --> 01:30:20,548 BURDENS OF THIS -- OF THESE 3293 01:30:20,548 --> 01:30:20,748 BETA 3294 01:30:20,748 --> 01:30:21,983 CENTERS. SO, AGAIN, 3295 01:30:21,983 --> 01:30:22,517 REASONABLE EXPECTATION. 3296 01:30:22,517 --> 01:30:24,252 IT'S WHY I SUPPORT THIS 3297 01:30:24,252 --> 01:30:26,320 RESOLUTION, AND, MADAM CHAIR, 3298 01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:28,923 I ASK TO BE LISTED AS A 3299 01:30:29,056 --> 01:30:30,525 CO-SPONSOR. 3300 01:30:30,525 --> 01:30:30,892 >> ABSOLUTELY. 3301 01:30:30,892 --> 01:30:33,694 MR. CLERK, AND CAN WE PLEASE ADD 3302 01:30:33,694 --> 01:30:36,197 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA AS A 3303 01:30:36,197 --> 01:30:41,602 COSPONSOR TO THIS 3304 01:30:41,602 --> 01:30:41,969 RESOLUTION? 3305 01:30:41,969 --> 01:30:42,603 ALL RIGHT, IT IS OFFICIALLY 3306 01:30:42,603 --> 01:30:43,237 ADDED FOR THE RECORD. AND THANK 3307 01:30:43,237 --> 01:30:43,871 YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 3308 01:30:43,871 --> 01:30:44,772 SAKA, AND THANK YOU FOR 3309 01:30:44,772 --> 01:30:46,274 AGREEING TO BE THE COSPONSOR. 3310 01:30:46,274 --> 01:30:47,642 I APPRECIATE THAT. 3311 01:30:47,642 --> 01:30:48,743 WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL 3312 01:30:48,743 --> 01:30:49,977 THE ROLL ON THE RECOMMENDATION 3313 01:30:49,977 --> 01:30:53,080 TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AS 3314 01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:54,081 AMENDED? 3315 01:30:54,081 --> 01:30:54,816 >> COUNCILMEMBER 3316 01:30:54,816 --> 01:30:56,284 STRAUSS. 3317 01:30:56,284 --> 01:30:57,018 >> AYE. 3318 01:30:57,151 --> 01:30:58,953 >> COUNCILMEMBER SAKA. 3319 01:30:59,086 --> 01:30:59,320 >> 3320 01:30:59,320 --> 01:30:59,987 AYE. 3321 01:30:59,987 --> 01:31:00,154 >> 3322 01:31:00,154 --> 01:31:00,822 CHAIR JUAREZ. 3323 01:31:00,822 --> 01:31:00,988 >> 3324 01:31:00,988 --> 01:31:01,189 AYE. 3325 01:31:01,189 --> 01:31:02,156 >> CHAIR, THERE ARE THREE VOTES 3326 01:31:02,156 --> 01:31:03,825 IN FAVOR AND ZERO 3327 01:31:03,825 --> 01:31:04,091 OPPOSED. 3328 01:31:04,091 --> 01:31:06,027 >> RIGHT, THE 3329 01:31:06,027 --> 01:31:06,327 RESOLUTION 3330 01:31:06,327 --> 01:31:07,962 CARRIES. RESOLUTION 32004 WILL 3331 01:31:07,962 --> 01:31:08,462 BE SENT 3332 01:31:08,462 --> 01:31:11,466 TO THE JUNE 9, FULL 3333 01:31:11,466 --> 01:31:11,799 COUNCIL 3334 01:31:11,799 --> 01:31:13,634 MEETING. AND BEFORE WE MOVE ONTO 3335 01:31:13,634 --> 01:31:13,868 ITEM 2, 3336 01:31:13,868 --> 01:31:14,735 I HAVE A PREPARED STATEMENT 3337 01:31:14,735 --> 01:31:17,638 THAT I WOULD LIKE TO READ INTO 3338 01:31:17,638 --> 01:31:19,574 THE RECORD REGARDING THIS 3339 01:31:19,574 --> 01:31:21,576 RESOLUTION AND THE MORATORIUM 3340 01:31:21,576 --> 01:31:21,776 THAT 3341 01:31:21,776 --> 01:31:23,778 WAS PASSED 3342 01:31:23,778 --> 01:31:25,012 THIS MORNING. AND I BELIEVE 3343 01:31:25,012 --> 01:31:26,447 HOPEFULLY IT IS A 3344 01:31:26,447 --> 01:31:30,318 ROAD MAP TO WHERE WE'RE 3345 01:31:30,318 --> 01:31:35,590 HEADED ON A.I. AND ON DATA 3346 01:31:35,590 --> 01:31:35,857 CENTERS. 3347 01:31:35,857 --> 01:31:36,958 MEGA DATA CENTERS AND A.I. 3348 01:31:36,958 --> 01:31:38,759 ARE NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT BRING 3349 01:31:38,759 --> 01:31:39,060 BOTH 3350 01:31:39,060 --> 01:31:39,994 INNOVATIONS AND UNKNOWN RISKS. 3351 01:31:39,994 --> 01:31:41,395 SEATTLE IS A TECH CITY. 3352 01:31:41,395 --> 01:31:43,631 THIS PAUSE TO STUDY IS A 3353 01:31:43,631 --> 01:31:45,099 PAUSE TO PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS 3354 01:31:45,099 --> 01:31:46,701 AND RESOURCES FROM 3355 01:31:46,701 --> 01:31:47,902 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF LARGE 3356 01:31:47,902 --> 01:31:48,102 DATA 3357 01:31:48,102 --> 01:31:49,937 CENTERS. 3358 01:31:49,937 --> 01:31:50,571 THE PASSING OF THIS RESOLUTION 3359 01:31:50,571 --> 01:31:51,839 AND THE MORATORIUM 3360 01:31:51,839 --> 01:31:53,274 FROM COUNCILMEMBER LIN'S LAND 3361 01:31:53,274 --> 01:31:53,975 USE COMMITTEE EARLIER THIS 3362 01:31:53,975 --> 01:31:55,943 MORNING IS THE FIRST STEPS IN 3363 01:31:55,943 --> 01:31:57,078 ENSURING PROTECTIONS ARE IN 3364 01:31:57,078 --> 01:31:57,311 PLACE. 3365 01:31:57,311 --> 01:31:59,247 WE ARE SETTING UP A 3366 01:31:59,247 --> 01:32:00,414 FRAMEWORK FOR MUCH MORE WORK TO 3367 01:32:00,414 --> 01:32:02,216 BE 3368 01:32:02,216 --> 01:32:02,917 DONE. WE ARE LEARNING MORE EVERY 3369 01:32:02,917 --> 01:32:05,853 WEEK ABOUT MEGA 3370 01:32:05,853 --> 01:32:06,721 DATA CENTERS AND A.I., BUILDING 3371 01:32:06,721 --> 01:32:07,221 OUR KNOWLEDGE. 3372 01:32:07,221 --> 01:32:10,358 WE HAVE ATTENDED EVENTS HOSTED 3373 01:32:10,358 --> 01:32:11,492 BY GEEK WIRE AND THE 3374 01:32:11,492 --> 01:32:12,660 NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM. 3375 01:32:12,660 --> 01:32:14,662 WE TRACKED NINE DATA CENTER A.I. 3376 01:32:14,662 --> 01:32:16,264 BILLS DURING THE 3377 01:32:16,264 --> 01:32:17,098 STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION. 3378 01:32:17,098 --> 01:32:21,168 ONLY ONE BILL -- SENATE BILL 3379 01:32:21,168 --> 01:32:22,770 5984 REGARDING A.I. CHAT 3380 01:32:22,770 --> 01:32:23,304 BOTS 3381 01:32:23,304 --> 01:32:24,872 WAS PASSED. OUR POLICY DIRECTOR, 3382 01:32:24,872 --> 01:32:27,441 PAUL, HAS BEEN ATTENDING THE 3383 01:32:27,441 --> 01:32:27,742 WASHINGTON 3384 01:32:27,742 --> 01:32:28,809 ATTORNEY GENERAL'S A.I. TASK 3385 01:32:28,809 --> 01:32:31,846 FORCE, WHICH WAS CREATED BY 3386 01:32:31,846 --> 01:32:34,315 GOVERNOR FERGUSON IN MARCH 3387 01:32:34,315 --> 01:32:34,882 OF 2024. 3388 01:32:34,882 --> 01:32:36,117 RECENTLY AT PUBLIC COMMENT 3389 01:32:36,117 --> 01:32:37,585 AND OUR LAST COMMITTEE MEETING 3390 01:32:37,585 --> 01:32:41,188 MAY 20th WE LEARNED FROM GROUPS 3391 01:32:41,188 --> 01:32:43,057 LIKE 350 SEATTLE, THE TROUBLE 3392 01:32:43,057 --> 01:32:44,892 MAKERS AND PEARL JAM GUY. 3393 01:32:44,892 --> 01:32:47,662 SINCE THAT MEETING 3394 01:32:47,662 --> 01:32:50,097 TWO WEEKS AGO ON MAY 27th IN OUR 3395 01:32:50,097 --> 01:32:51,532 OFFICE, THADDEUS GREGORY 3396 01:32:51,532 --> 01:32:53,701 FROM COUNCILMEMBER LIN'S 3397 01:32:53,701 --> 01:32:54,035 OFFICE, ERIC 3398 01:32:54,035 --> 01:32:55,102 FROM CENTRAL STAFF, ALSO 3399 01:32:55,102 --> 01:32:57,171 MET WITH US WHEN WE HAD A 3400 01:32:57,171 --> 01:33:01,375 MEETING WITH MEDIA JUSTICE. 3401 01:33:01,375 --> 01:33:05,579 THAT WAS WITH THE DATA 3402 01:33:05,579 --> 01:33:07,481 CENTER FELLOW, HEAD OF PROGRAMS, 3403 01:33:07,481 --> 01:33:07,648 AND 3404 01:33:07,648 --> 01:33:09,750 THE SENIOR RESEARCH SPECIALIST. 3405 01:33:09,750 --> 01:33:12,486 THESE ARE THE FOLKS AT MEDIA 3406 01:33:12,620 --> 01:33:14,622 JUSTICE. IF YOU GET A CHANCE, 3407 01:33:14,622 --> 01:33:14,855 GOOGLE 3408 01:33:14,855 --> 01:33:16,991 THEM. MEDIA 3409 01:33:16,991 --> 01:33:17,692 JUSTICE SHARE THEIR WORK THEY'RE 3410 01:33:17,692 --> 01:33:18,693 DOING ACROSS THE 3411 01:33:18,693 --> 01:33:20,795 COUNTRY IN THIS AREA. 3412 01:33:20,795 --> 01:33:21,862 THERE ARE ALSO VITAL 3413 01:33:21,862 --> 01:33:23,564 TOOLS FOR THE WORK STOOD UP BY 3414 01:33:23,564 --> 01:33:23,798 THE 3415 01:33:23,798 --> 01:33:25,166 MORATORIUM AND 3416 01:33:25,166 --> 01:33:25,566 TODAY'S 3417 01:33:25,566 --> 01:33:27,401 RESOLUTION. ON MAY 25th, AND 3418 01:33:27,401 --> 01:33:27,802 YES, I'M 3419 01:33:27,802 --> 01:33:30,037 GOING TO QUOTE THE POPE. 3420 01:33:30,037 --> 01:33:30,805 WHERE'S KELLY? 3421 01:33:30,805 --> 01:33:32,640 MY CHIEF OF STAFF WANTED TO MAKE 3422 01:33:32,640 --> 01:33:34,609 SURE I READ THIS INTO 3423 01:33:34,609 --> 01:33:36,377 THE RECORD. 3424 01:33:36,377 --> 01:33:40,081 ON MAY 25th POPE LEO 14 3425 01:33:40,081 --> 01:33:41,482 th STATING A.I. MUST SERVE 3426 01:33:41,482 --> 01:33:44,018 HUMANITY AND NOT CONCENTRATE 3427 01:33:44,018 --> 01:33:44,251 POWER. 3428 01:33:44,251 --> 01:33:46,320 HE PUT FORTH THAT HUMANITY 3429 01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:48,889 SHOULD, QUOTE, REQUIRE THAT 3430 01:33:48,889 --> 01:33:51,859 THE USE OF GOODS OF CREATION AND 3431 01:33:51,993 --> 01:33:53,828 THE NEW POSSIBILITIES OFFERED 3432 01:33:53,828 --> 01:33:55,162 BY TECHNOLOGY BE REGULATED IN 3433 01:33:55,162 --> 01:33:55,363 SUCH 3434 01:33:55,363 --> 01:33:56,864 A WAY AS TO RESPECT THE 3435 01:33:56,864 --> 01:33:58,332 ENVIRONMENT, AVOID WASTE, 3436 01:33:58,332 --> 01:34:01,569 AND PREVENT NEW FORMS 3437 01:34:01,569 --> 01:34:01,969 OF EXPLOITATION. 3438 01:34:01,969 --> 01:34:03,270 IN OUR MEETING WITH MEDIA 3439 01:34:03,270 --> 01:34:06,907 JUSTICE, THEY SHARED A.I. 3440 01:34:06,907 --> 01:34:08,643 NOW POLICIES, INSTITUTES NORTH 3441 01:34:08,643 --> 01:34:10,277 STAR DATA CENTER TOOL KIT, WHICH 3442 01:34:10,277 --> 01:34:10,478 WILL 3443 01:34:10,478 --> 01:34:12,146 BE A VALUABLE GUIDE FOR THE 3444 01:34:12,146 --> 01:34:13,447 WORK THAT WE HAVE LAID OUT FOR 3445 01:34:13,447 --> 01:34:17,318 THE CITY WHILE INCORPORATING 3446 01:34:17,318 --> 01:34:17,818 SEATTLE SENSIBILITIES. 3447 01:34:17,818 --> 01:34:20,087 THE TOOLKIT RECOMMENDS ANY 3448 01:34:20,087 --> 01:34:21,722 MEGA DATA CENTER 3449 01:34:21,722 --> 01:34:23,924 PROJECT INCLUDES BUT NOT LIMIT 3450 01:34:23,924 --> 01:34:24,392 TODAY THE 3451 01:34:24,525 --> 01:34:26,627 FOLLOWING. 3452 01:34:26,627 --> 01:34:27,261 AN APPROVED WATER USAGE PLAN TO 3453 01:34:27,261 --> 01:34:27,662 PROTECT 3454 01:34:27,662 --> 01:34:29,230 WATER RESOURCES. AN APPROVED 3455 01:34:29,230 --> 01:34:29,897 ENERGY USAGE PLAN. 3456 01:34:29,897 --> 01:34:32,933 AN APPROVED NOISE MITIGATION 3457 01:34:33,067 --> 01:34:35,503 PLAN. A COMMITMENT TO ABIDE BY 3458 01:34:35,503 --> 01:34:36,103 ZONING 3459 01:34:36,103 --> 01:34:36,637 REGULATIONS. 3460 01:34:36,637 --> 01:34:39,240 A BINDING COMMITMENT TO CONTINUE 3461 01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:41,242 POST- APPROVAL 3462 01:34:41,242 --> 01:34:41,575 TRANSPARENCY 3463 01:34:41,575 --> 01:34:42,443 REQUIREMENTS. A BINDING 3464 01:34:42,443 --> 01:34:43,444 COMMITMENT TO ABIDE 3465 01:34:43,444 --> 01:34:45,980 BY JOB QUALITY STANDARDS AND 3466 01:34:45,980 --> 01:34:46,480 LOCAL 3467 01:34:46,480 --> 01:34:48,215 TARGETED HIRING FOR 3468 01:34:48,215 --> 01:34:50,985 CONSTRUCTION AND DATA CENTER 3469 01:34:50,985 --> 01:34:54,255 JOBS. A DISPLACEMENT IN HOLISTIC 3470 01:34:54,388 --> 01:34:56,357 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 3471 01:34:56,357 --> 01:34:57,558 REPORT CENTERING ENVIRONMENTAL 3472 01:34:57,558 --> 01:34:58,926 JUSTICE CONSIDERATIONS SUCH AS 3473 01:34:58,926 --> 01:35:00,694 THOSE EMERGING FROM RED LINE AND 3474 01:35:00,694 --> 01:35:01,629 FENCE LINE COMMUNITIES 3475 01:35:01,629 --> 01:35:04,498 THAT ESTABLISHES THE DATA 3476 01:35:04,498 --> 01:35:05,499 CENTERS WILL NOT EXASPERATE THE 3477 01:35:05,499 --> 01:35:06,634 DISPLACEMENT OF RESIDENTS 3478 01:35:06,634 --> 01:35:08,402 AND LOCAL BUSINESSES. 3479 01:35:08,402 --> 01:35:10,004 AND IN CONCLUSION, IT CALLED 3480 01:35:10,004 --> 01:35:11,272 FOR BY FRONT LINE COMMUNITIES 3481 01:35:11,272 --> 01:35:13,974 A BINDING COMMITMENT TO ENFORCE 3482 01:35:13,974 --> 01:35:15,476 COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENTS. 3483 01:35:15,476 --> 01:35:16,877 WHILE WE CANNOT LOOK 3484 01:35:16,877 --> 01:35:18,279 TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR 3485 01:35:18,279 --> 01:35:20,047 LEADERSHIP, WE CAN LOOK TO 3486 01:35:20,047 --> 01:35:23,184 TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS. 3487 01:35:23,184 --> 01:35:25,052 THE SEMINOLE NATION WAS ONE 3488 01:35:25,052 --> 01:35:26,720 OF THE FIRST TRIBAL COUNCILS TO 3489 01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:29,990 PASS A MORATORIUM ON A 3490 01:35:29,990 --> 01:35:31,692 HYPERSCALE DATA CENTER IN MARCH 3491 01:35:31,692 --> 01:35:33,994 OF 2026. 3492 01:35:33,994 --> 01:35:38,332 THE SOUGHT SEATTLE TRIBE 3493 01:35:38,332 --> 01:35:39,467 OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS AND MANY 3494 01:35:39,467 --> 01:35:42,770 OTHERS HAVE FOLLOWED SUIT. 3495 01:35:42,770 --> 01:35:43,337 TRIBES UNDERSTAND THE 3496 01:35:43,337 --> 01:35:44,905 EXCAVATION MENTALITY AND 3497 01:35:44,905 --> 01:35:45,239 ENVIRONMENTAL 3498 01:35:45,239 --> 01:35:46,140 DEGRADATION, AND WE KNOW IT 3499 01:35:46,140 --> 01:35:52,980 IS NOT NEW TO INDIAN COUNTRY. 3500 01:35:52,980 --> 01:35:54,515 CARLYLE SAID THIS IS THE STRESS 3501 01:35:54,515 --> 01:35:55,750 HOLD, THERE'S NO 3502 01:35:55,750 --> 01:35:57,384 TURNING BACK. ONCE WE'VE USED 3503 01:35:57,384 --> 01:35:59,220 UP AND 3504 01:35:59,220 --> 01:35:59,920 CONTAMINATED ALL OF OUR 3505 01:35:59,920 --> 01:36:00,988 WATER RESOURCES, THIS IS IT. 3506 01:36:00,988 --> 01:36:02,456 TODAY WE FOLLOW THE 3507 01:36:02,456 --> 01:36:04,692 EXAMPLE TRIBAL NATIONS 3508 01:36:04,692 --> 01:36:05,326 HAVE SET. WE STARTED ON THE PATH 3509 01:36:05,326 --> 01:36:05,593 TO 3510 01:36:05,593 --> 01:36:07,962 ENSURE WE PROTECT LAND AND WATER 3511 01:36:07,962 --> 01:36:09,396 USAGE, WHICH ARE FINITE 3512 01:36:09,396 --> 01:36:10,731 RESOURCES, 3513 01:36:10,731 --> 01:36:19,573 THE LOAD ON THE LECK ELECTRICAL 3514 01:36:19,573 --> 01:36:20,508 GRID, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOTH 3515 01:36:20,508 --> 01:36:21,675 LAND AND USE AND JOBS, 3516 01:36:21,675 --> 01:36:23,144 AND PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACTS SUCH 3517 01:36:23,144 --> 01:36:23,978 AS NOISE, 3518 01:36:23,978 --> 01:36:25,913 LIGHT, WATER, AND AIR POLLUTION. 3519 01:36:25,913 --> 01:36:28,082 AND THE RIGHTS OF 3520 01:36:28,082 --> 01:36:30,217 FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES, 3521 01:36:30,217 --> 01:36:30,417 URBAN 3522 01:36:30,417 --> 01:36:32,153 INDIANS, AND NATIVE COMMUNITIES 3523 01:36:32,153 --> 01:36:33,154 TO EXERCISE ANY AND 3524 01:36:33,154 --> 01:36:34,922 ALL EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED TREATY 3525 01:36:34,922 --> 01:36:38,425 RIGHTS TO ACCESS AND FISH ON 3526 01:36:38,425 --> 01:36:40,361 ALL USUAL AND THE CUSTOM PLACES 3527 01:36:40,361 --> 01:36:40,528 AS 3528 01:36:40,528 --> 01:36:44,064 HAS OCCURRED SINCE TIME 3529 01:36:44,198 --> 01:36:51,272 IMMEMORIAL. OUR OFFICE AND THIS 3530 01:36:51,272 --> 01:36:51,605 CITY COUNCIL 3531 01:36:51,605 --> 01:36:54,608 IS COMMITTED TO CONTINUING 3532 01:36:54,608 --> 01:36:54,775 THE 3533 01:36:54,775 --> 01:36:55,810 WORK. OUR OFFICE WILL BE 3534 01:36:55,810 --> 01:36:56,143 ATTENDING THE 3535 01:36:56,143 --> 01:36:57,511 LAW CONFERENCE, IF DIJINOUS 3536 01:36:57,511 --> 01:37:00,848 PER SPECTS ON A.I. , 3537 01:37:00,848 --> 01:37:02,183 APPROPRIATION AND INNOVATION, A 3538 01:37:02,183 --> 01:37:05,486 CONFERENCE HOST WOULD THE 3539 01:37:05,486 --> 01:37:05,920 SEATTLE U 3540 01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:07,488 SCHOOL OF LAW -- SEATTLE 3541 01:37:07,488 --> 01:37:07,788 UNIVERSITY 3542 01:37:07,788 --> 01:37:09,757 SCHOOL OF LAW. 3543 01:37:09,757 --> 01:37:10,991 I WANT TO SHOUTOUT TO A DEAR 3544 01:37:10,991 --> 01:37:15,429 FRIEND OF MINE AND FORMER 3545 01:37:15,429 --> 01:37:17,097 MENTEE, THE DIRECTOR FOR 3546 01:37:17,097 --> 01:37:19,700 THE NORTHWEST CENTER 3547 01:37:19,700 --> 01:37:22,169 ININDIGENOUS LAW AT SEATTLE U. 3548 01:37:22,169 --> 01:37:22,803 FOR CONVENING 3549 01:37:22,803 --> 01:37:24,805 THIS IMPORTANT EVENT. 3550 01:37:24,805 --> 01:37:27,208 WE'VE CERTAINLY SEEN THEM 3551 01:37:27,208 --> 01:37:30,411 ACROSS THE 3552 01:37:30,411 --> 01:37:33,347 COUNTRY. WE'RE A CITY OF 3553 01:37:33,347 --> 01:37:33,681 TECHNOLOGY. 3554 01:37:33,681 --> 01:37:35,716 IT IS VITAL WE MORE 3555 01:37:35,716 --> 01:37:36,750 COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT 3556 01:37:36,750 --> 01:37:37,251 OF 3557 01:37:37,251 --> 01:37:40,187 DATA CENTERS AND HOLD DATA 3558 01:37:40,187 --> 01:37:41,255 CENTER DEVELOPERS ACCOUNTABLE 3559 01:37:41,255 --> 01:37:41,422 FOR 3560 01:37:41,422 --> 01:37:42,890 THEIR COST AND IMPACTS. 3561 01:37:42,890 --> 01:37:46,093 WE MUST ENSURE DATA 3562 01:37:46,093 --> 01:37:46,961 CENTERS AND COMPANIES DO NOT 3563 01:37:46,961 --> 01:37:47,595 PASS THE 3564 01:37:47,595 --> 01:37:49,763 COSTS AND LONG- TERM EFFECTS 3565 01:37:49,763 --> 01:37:50,431 ONTO OUR 3566 01:37:50,431 --> 01:37:53,367 RESIDENTS, OUR HEALTH, OUR 3567 01:37:53,367 --> 01:37:54,902 RESOURCES, OUR RIVERS, OUR 3568 01:37:54,902 --> 01:37:55,102 WATER 3569 01:37:55,102 --> 01:37:56,637 SHEDS. WITH THAT I WANT TO THANK 3570 01:37:56,637 --> 01:37:58,439 MY COMMITTEE MEMBERS, MY VICE 3571 01:37:58,439 --> 01:37:59,707 CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER 3572 01:37:59,707 --> 01:38:01,942 KETTLE, 3573 01:38:01,942 --> 01:38:04,078 COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA, 3574 01:38:04,078 --> 01:38:04,578 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA, AND 3575 01:38:04,578 --> 01:38:05,145 COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS. IN 3576 01:38:05,145 --> 01:38:06,480 ADDITION I'D 3577 01:38:06,480 --> 01:38:07,348 LIKE TO THANK MY GREAT STAFF, MY 3578 01:38:07,348 --> 01:38:07,648 CHIEF CHIEF 3579 01:38:07,648 --> 01:38:09,216 OF STAFF KELLY BROWN, WHO'S OUT 3580 01:38:09,216 --> 01:38:12,253 THERE IN THE 3581 01:38:12,253 --> 01:38:14,288 AUDIENCE. OUR POLICY GUY WHO'S 3582 01:38:14,288 --> 01:38:14,521 ACTING 3583 01:38:14,521 --> 01:38:15,956 AS OUR CLERK TODAY. 3584 01:38:15,956 --> 01:38:17,091 SOPHIA WHO'S STILL 3585 01:38:17,091 --> 01:38:18,158 GETTING HER GRADUATE DEGREE AT 3586 01:38:18,158 --> 01:38:18,325 THE 3587 01:38:18,325 --> 01:38:20,261 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON -- WHAT 3588 01:38:20,261 --> 01:38:22,663 SCHOOL IS THAT AGAIN? 3589 01:38:22,663 --> 01:38:24,131 EVANSSCHOOL, WHO STARTED 3590 01:38:24,131 --> 01:38:25,432 WORKING ON THIS PROJECT IN THE 3591 01:38:25,432 --> 01:38:25,699 FALL 3592 01:38:25,699 --> 01:38:28,102 OF 2025, AND OF COURSE THE 3593 01:38:28,102 --> 01:38:30,037 CITY COUNCIL STAFF, 3594 01:38:30,037 --> 01:38:30,437 COUNCILMEMBER LIN 3595 01:38:30,437 --> 01:38:33,073 AND HIS STAFF, THADDEUS GREGORY, 3596 01:38:33,073 --> 01:38:34,074 AND OF COURSE WHO HAS 3597 01:38:34,074 --> 01:38:36,877 BEEN WORKING SHOULDER TO 3598 01:38:36,877 --> 01:38:38,646 SHOULDER WITH US COUNCIL 3599 01:38:38,646 --> 01:38:39,680 PRESIDENT JOY 3600 01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:40,581 HOLLINGSWORTH AND HER STAFF. 3601 01:38:40,581 --> 01:38:41,815 WE'VE NOT ONLY DONE THE 3602 01:38:41,815 --> 01:38:44,251 RESEARCH AND ATTENDED WEBINARS 3603 01:38:44,251 --> 01:38:44,685 AND TECH 3604 01:38:44,685 --> 01:38:45,052 EVENTS. 3605 01:38:45,052 --> 01:38:46,887 LIKE I SHARED BEFORE WE WENT 3606 01:38:46,887 --> 01:38:48,689 TO THE GEEK WIRE EVENT HOSTED BY 3607 01:38:48,822 --> 01:38:50,224 AMAZON. WE WERE MEETING WITH IT 3608 01:38:50,224 --> 01:38:50,491 LAWYERS, 3609 01:38:50,491 --> 01:38:51,625 TRIBAL LAWYERS, 3610 01:38:51,625 --> 01:38:53,227 ANALYSTS, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS, 3611 01:38:53,227 --> 01:38:53,394 THE 3612 01:38:53,394 --> 01:38:54,094 MEDIA JUSTICE FOLKS. 3613 01:38:54,094 --> 01:38:56,397 WE HAVE REVIEWED COURT 3614 01:38:56,397 --> 01:38:57,097 FILINGS 3615 01:38:57,097 --> 01:38:59,767 AND PLEADINGS. WE ATTENDED 3616 01:38:59,767 --> 01:39:00,034 STATEWIDE 3617 01:39:00,034 --> 01:39:01,001 STAKEHOLDER GROUPS. 3618 01:39:01,001 --> 01:39:02,336 BASICALLY, WE'VE DONE AS 3619 01:39:02,336 --> 01:39:03,237 MUCH RESEARCH AS WE CAN. 3620 01:39:03,237 --> 01:39:05,205 WHY WE DID THIS IS BECAUSE WE 3621 01:39:05,205 --> 01:39:05,439 CARE. 3622 01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:08,275 WE KNOW THAT THESE CRITICAL 3623 01:39:08,275 --> 01:39:11,779 ISSUES GO BEYOND OUR JOB, 3624 01:39:11,779 --> 01:39:12,413 THEIR JOB, BEYOND OUR FRONT 3625 01:39:12,413 --> 01:39:14,148 DOOR, BEYOND OUR CITY, BEYOND 3626 01:39:14,148 --> 01:39:14,315 OUR 3627 01:39:14,315 --> 01:39:15,616 STATE, BEYOND OUR COUNTRY, 3628 01:39:15,616 --> 01:39:17,818 AND AS YOU'RE WITNESSING 3629 01:39:17,818 --> 01:39:18,185 NOW, GLOBALLY. 3630 01:39:18,185 --> 01:39:19,586 WHEN WE MOVE FORWARD WITH 3631 01:39:19,586 --> 01:39:20,521 TECHNOLOGY, WE KNOW IT 3632 01:39:20,521 --> 01:39:23,357 TAKES SOME TIME FOR SOCIETY TO 3633 01:39:23,357 --> 01:39:23,624 CATCH 3634 01:39:23,624 --> 01:39:26,860 UP. AND WITH THAT WE AIM TO HOLD 3635 01:39:26,860 --> 01:39:27,027 -- 3636 01:39:27,027 --> 01:39:28,228 WE AIM TO BUILD HIGH 3637 01:39:28,228 --> 01:39:29,496 SOCIETAL TRUST AS WE MOVE 3638 01:39:29,496 --> 01:39:29,930 FORWARD IN 3639 01:39:29,930 --> 01:39:33,233 THIS NEW ERA OF DATA CENTERS AND 3640 01:39:33,233 --> 01:39:35,970 A.I. 3641 01:39:35,970 --> 01:39:37,137 THANK YOU. 3642 01:39:37,137 --> 01:39:38,572 ALL RIGHT. 3643 01:39:38,572 --> 01:39:41,008 WITH THAT, MR. CLERK, WILL 3644 01:39:41,008 --> 01:39:43,377 YOU PLEASE READ ITEM NUMBER 2 3645 01:39:43,377 --> 01:39:44,445 INTO 3646 01:39:44,445 --> 01:39:44,878 THE RECORD? 3647 01:39:44,878 --> 01:39:46,947 >> RESOLUTION 32206, 3648 01:39:46,947 --> 01:39:48,782 A RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE CITY 3649 01:39:48,782 --> 01:39:49,483 LIGHT DEPARTMENT 3650 01:39:49,483 --> 01:39:52,019 ACKNOWLEDGING AND APPROVING THE 3651 01:39:52,019 --> 01:39:52,219 2026 3652 01:39:52,219 --> 01:39:53,454 INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN. 3653 01:39:53,454 --> 01:39:58,359 THERE WILL BE BRIEFING AND 3654 01:39:58,359 --> 01:39:58,659 DISCUSSION. 3655 01:39:58,792 --> 01:39:59,126 >> THANK YOU. 3656 01:39:59,126 --> 01:40:00,794 SO WITH THAT, WE'D LIKE TO 3657 01:40:00,794 --> 01:40:02,329 INVITE THE CITY LIGHT 3658 01:40:02,329 --> 01:40:03,731 PRESENTERS TO JOIN US AT THE 3659 01:40:03,731 --> 01:40:04,098 TABLE. 3660 01:40:04,098 --> 01:40:14,608 LET ME SEE WHAT I HAVE HERE. 3661 01:40:19,279 --> 01:40:20,080 I SHOULD NOTE WHICH HAS 3662 01:40:20,080 --> 01:40:21,348 BEEN POSTED THE INTEGRATED 3663 01:40:21,348 --> 01:40:21,615 RESOURCE 3664 01:40:21,615 --> 01:40:22,816 PLAN, THE SUMMARY AND 3665 01:40:22,816 --> 01:40:25,185 FISCAL NOTE, AND 3666 01:40:25,185 --> 01:40:25,819 THE INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN. 3667 01:40:25,819 --> 01:40:27,621 AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO 3668 01:40:27,621 --> 01:40:35,729 LET YOU -- I UNDERSTAND THAT 3669 01:40:35,729 --> 01:40:37,297 WE -- WE'RE NOT TAKING A VOENT 3670 01:40:37,297 --> 01:40:37,498 THIS 3671 01:40:37,498 --> 01:40:39,633 TODAY, BUT WE'LL LET YOU DO 3672 01:40:39,633 --> 01:40:39,833 YOUR 3673 01:40:39,833 --> 01:40:40,167 PRESENTATION. 3674 01:40:40,167 --> 01:40:41,335 ALL RIGHT, GO 3675 01:40:41,335 --> 01:40:41,635 AHEAD. 3676 01:40:41,635 --> 01:40:42,936 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR 3677 01:40:42,936 --> 01:40:44,138 JUAREZ AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 3678 01:40:44,138 --> 01:40:44,838 THANK YOU SO MUCH 3679 01:40:44,838 --> 01:40:46,006 FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT 3680 01:40:46,006 --> 01:40:47,941 THE CITY 3681 01:40:47,941 --> 01:40:49,476 LIGHT 2026 INTEGRATED RESOURCE 3682 01:40:49,476 --> 01:40:52,046 PLAN, OR IRP. 3683 01:40:52,046 --> 01:40:54,515 MY NAME IS SIOBHAN DOHERTY, AND 3684 01:40:54,515 --> 01:40:56,350 I SERVE AS THE SEATTLE 3685 01:40:56,350 --> 01:40:57,051 CITY LIGHTS SUPPLY OFFICER. 3686 01:40:57,051 --> 01:40:58,519 I'M JOINED TODAY BY MEMBERS 3687 01:40:58,519 --> 01:41:00,220 OF OUR RESOURCE PLANNING 3688 01:41:00,220 --> 01:41:03,357 TEAM INCLUDING KATIE EWING, 3689 01:41:03,357 --> 01:41:05,392 MANAGER OF RESOURCE PLANNING 3690 01:41:05,392 --> 01:41:08,195 AND ANALYTICS AND REBECCA KLEIN, 3691 01:41:08,195 --> 01:41:09,530 DATA ANALYST IN 3692 01:41:09,530 --> 01:41:09,797 RESOURCE 3693 01:41:09,797 --> 01:41:10,864 PLANNING. THE INTEGRATED 3694 01:41:10,864 --> 01:41:11,298 RESOURCE PLAN IS 3695 01:41:11,298 --> 01:41:13,000 CITY LIGHTS LONG- TERM 3696 01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:14,568 PLANNING DOCUMENT LOOKING AHEAD 3697 01:41:14,568 --> 01:41:14,735 20 3698 01:41:14,735 --> 01:41:17,171 YEARS TO 3699 01:41:17,171 --> 01:41:18,038 ENSURE WE CAN MEET FUTURE 3700 01:41:18,038 --> 01:41:22,142 ELECTRICITY NEEDS ELIABLY, 3701 01:41:22,142 --> 01:41:23,277 AFFORDABILITY, AND SUSTAINABLY. 3702 01:41:23,277 --> 01:41:24,978 THE 2026 IRP IS A FULL 3703 01:41:24,978 --> 01:41:27,514 UPDATE AND REFLECTS LOAD GROWTH 3704 01:41:27,514 --> 01:41:27,815 AND 3705 01:41:27,815 --> 01:41:29,183 EVOLVING CUSTOMER DEMAND. 3706 01:41:29,183 --> 01:41:33,754 THE PLAN 3707 01:41:33,754 --> 01:41:34,154 WAS INFORMED WITH 3708 01:41:34,154 --> 01:41:34,788 ENGAGEMENT FROM STAKEHOLDERS AND 3709 01:41:34,788 --> 01:41:35,756 COMMUNITY AND IS ALIGNED 3710 01:41:35,756 --> 01:41:37,091 WITH THE CITY'S CLIMATE AND 3711 01:41:37,091 --> 01:41:37,524 EQUITY GOALS. 3712 01:41:37,524 --> 01:41:39,593 IN CLOSING THE IRP OUTLINES 3713 01:41:39,593 --> 01:41:42,129 THE CITY APPROACH TO LONG- TERM 3714 01:41:42,129 --> 01:41:43,530 PLANNING AND RELIABLE SERVICE. 3715 01:41:43,530 --> 01:41:44,565 WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT 3716 01:41:44,565 --> 01:41:46,366 OVER TO KATIE EWING TO WALK OVER 3717 01:41:46,366 --> 01:41:46,667 THE 3718 01:41:46,667 --> 01:41:47,067 PLAN. 3719 01:41:47,201 --> 01:41:49,303 THANK YOU. 3720 01:41:49,303 --> 01:41:50,003 >> THANKS, SIOBHAN. 3721 01:41:50,003 --> 01:41:51,872 CAN YOU GUYS 3722 01:41:51,872 --> 01:41:52,139 HEAR ME? 3723 01:41:52,139 --> 01:41:54,741 GREAT. OKAY, SO SIOBHAN 3724 01:41:54,741 --> 01:41:55,109 INTRODUCED THE 3725 01:41:55,109 --> 01:41:56,310 TEAM, SO I WILL SKIP THAT PART. 3726 01:41:56,310 --> 01:41:57,544 SO THE REST OF OUR TEAM 3727 01:41:57,544 --> 01:42:00,481 IS IN THE AUDIENCE, SO 3728 01:42:00,481 --> 01:42:01,181 WE'RE EXCITED TO BE HERE TODAY. 3729 01:42:01,181 --> 01:42:01,815 SO OUR 3730 01:42:01,815 --> 01:42:03,484 AGENDA. WE ARE GOING TO START 3731 01:42:03,484 --> 01:42:05,185 WITH BACKGROUND AND KEY TAKE- 3732 01:42:05,185 --> 01:42:06,487 AWAYS AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY 3733 01:42:06,487 --> 01:42:08,622 OUTREACH WE DID FOR THE 2026 3734 01:42:08,622 --> 01:42:08,822 IRP. 3735 01:42:08,822 --> 01:42:09,923 WE'LL MOVE THEN INTO 3736 01:42:09,923 --> 01:42:11,725 MODEL INPUTS AND THEN OUR 3737 01:42:11,725 --> 01:42:11,959 RESULTS 3738 01:42:11,959 --> 01:42:18,832 AND OUR CALL TO 3739 01:42:18,832 --> 01:42:20,467 ACTION. SO INTEGRATED RESOURCE 3740 01:42:20,467 --> 01:42:20,667 PLAN 3741 01:42:20,667 --> 01:42:21,068 REQUIREMENTS. 3742 01:42:21,068 --> 01:42:22,402 THE INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN 3743 01:42:22,402 --> 01:42:25,305 PROVIDES A 20- YEAR 3744 01:42:25,305 --> 01:42:27,674 OUTLOOK CONSIDERING MANY 3745 01:42:27,674 --> 01:42:28,775 PLAUSIBLE FUTURES AND SETS 3746 01:42:28,775 --> 01:42:29,076 RELIABILITY 3747 01:42:29,076 --> 01:42:30,811 STANDARDS TO HELP GUIDE CITY 3748 01:42:30,811 --> 01:42:32,246 LIGHTS RESOURCE ACQUISITION 3749 01:42:32,246 --> 01:42:34,715 TO ENSURE RELIABLE LOAD SERVICE. 3750 01:42:34,715 --> 01:42:36,316 EVERY TWO YEARS CITY 3751 01:42:36,316 --> 01:42:39,353 LIGHTS PRODUCES A 20-YEAR PLAN 3752 01:42:39,353 --> 01:42:40,754 THAT 3753 01:42:40,754 --> 01:42:43,190 IS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL 3754 01:42:43,190 --> 01:42:45,092 AND FILED BY WASHINGTON 3755 01:42:45,092 --> 01:42:45,392 DEPARTMENT 3756 01:42:45,392 --> 01:42:46,760 OF COMMERCE BY SEPTEMBER 1st. 3757 01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:49,263 IT IS AN EVALUATION OF CUSTOMER 3758 01:42:49,263 --> 01:42:51,598 POWER NEEDS OR LOAD AND 3759 01:42:51,598 --> 01:42:53,033 POWER SUPPLY RESOURCE NEEDS. 3760 01:42:53,033 --> 01:42:55,002 FOR THIS EVALUATION STUDY 3761 01:42:55,002 --> 01:42:59,606 WE USED 900 WEATHER VARIATIONS 3762 01:42:59,606 --> 01:43:01,208 TO SIMULATE HOURLY VALUES FOR 3763 01:43:01,208 --> 01:43:02,676 THE 20- YEAR STUDY PERIOD. 3764 01:43:02,676 --> 01:43:05,913 THE 20 YEARS OF FUTURE 3765 01:43:05,913 --> 01:43:07,114 SIMULATED HOURLY LOADS ARE 3766 01:43:07,114 --> 01:43:08,181 COMPARED TO 3767 01:43:08,181 --> 01:43:10,017 20 YEARS OF FUTURE SIMULATED 3768 01:43:10,017 --> 01:43:12,819 HOURLY GENERATION FROM CITY 3769 01:43:12,819 --> 01:43:14,888 LOAD RESOURCE PORT FOLIO TO 3770 01:43:14,888 --> 01:43:15,088 CHECK 3771 01:43:15,088 --> 01:43:17,658 WHETHER CITY LIGHTS RESOURCE 3772 01:43:17,658 --> 01:43:18,825 PORTFOLIO CAN PRODUCE POWER 3773 01:43:18,825 --> 01:43:20,928 GREATER OR EQUAL TO THE 3774 01:43:20,928 --> 01:43:25,032 POWER NEED BY CITY LIGHTS 3775 01:43:25,032 --> 01:43:25,332 CUSTOMERS. 3776 01:43:25,332 --> 01:43:27,301 LAW WHICH REQUIRES ALL 3777 01:43:27,301 --> 01:43:28,535 ELECTRIC UTILITIES WITH MORE 3778 01:43:28,535 --> 01:43:29,069 THAN 3779 01:43:29,069 --> 01:43:30,470 25,000 CUSTOMERS DEVELOP 3780 01:43:30,470 --> 01:43:31,138 A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE 3781 01:43:31,138 --> 01:43:33,540 PLAN EVERY TWO YEARS THAT 3782 01:43:33,540 --> 01:43:33,840 IDENTIFIES 3783 01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:36,543 STRATEGIES TO MEET CUSTOMERS 3784 01:43:36,677 --> 01:43:37,377 ELECTRICITY NEEDS IN THE SHORT 3785 01:43:37,377 --> 01:43:39,780 AND THE 3786 01:43:39,780 --> 01:43:43,216 LONG-TERM. EVERY IRP ACROSS ALL 3787 01:43:43,216 --> 01:43:44,618 THE 3788 01:43:44,618 --> 01:43:46,553 UTILITIES IS APPROVED BY THEIR 3789 01:43:46,553 --> 01:43:47,087 GOVERNING BOARD AND FILED 3790 01:43:47,087 --> 01:43:48,021 WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 3791 01:43:48,021 --> 01:43:49,022 BY SEPTEMBER 1st. 3792 01:43:49,022 --> 01:43:51,091 SO WHILE THIS IS A REGULATORY 3793 01:43:51,091 --> 01:43:52,125 REQUIREMENT, WE WOULD DO 3794 01:43:52,125 --> 01:43:53,727 IT ANYWAYS AS A PART OF 3795 01:43:53,727 --> 01:43:57,431 GOOD PRACTICE AND PLANNING TO 3796 01:43:57,431 --> 01:44:00,901 ENSURE WE'VE PROVIDED THE 3797 01:44:00,901 --> 01:44:01,201 SERVICE WE 3798 01:44:01,201 --> 01:44:01,501 PROVIDE. 3799 01:44:01,501 --> 01:44:03,437 SO WHAT IS 3800 01:44:03,437 --> 01:44:04,571 THE PROCESS TO BUILD AN IRP? 3801 01:44:04,571 --> 01:44:06,506 IT STARTS OFF AS AN OPPORTUNITY 3802 01:44:06,506 --> 01:44:07,708 FOR CUSTOMERS AND 3803 01:44:07,708 --> 01:44:08,675 STAKEHOLDERS TO SHARE THEIR 3804 01:44:08,675 --> 01:44:09,743 VISION OF 3805 01:44:09,743 --> 01:44:10,811 OUR FUTURE POWER SUPPLY IN ORDER 3806 01:44:10,811 --> 01:44:12,512 TO PLAN A RELIABLE FUTURE. 3807 01:44:12,512 --> 01:44:15,115 IT'S A STUDY OF OPTIONS FOR 3808 01:44:15,115 --> 01:44:18,018 MEETING ELECTRICITY NEEDS OF 3809 01:44:18,018 --> 01:44:20,220 CUSTOMERS TO FIND SOLUTIONS 3810 01:44:20,220 --> 01:44:21,154 THAT BALANCE PRIORITIES. 3811 01:44:21,154 --> 01:44:22,823 THE GOAL OF THE ANALYSIS IS 3812 01:44:22,823 --> 01:44:24,524 TO ENSURE WE HAVE ENOUGH 3813 01:44:24,524 --> 01:44:24,791 RESOURCES 3814 01:44:24,791 --> 01:44:27,027 TO MEET CUSTOMER 3815 01:44:27,027 --> 01:44:27,628 ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY NEEDS 3816 01:44:27,628 --> 01:44:29,930 ELIABLY AT THE LOWEST 3817 01:44:29,930 --> 01:44:30,597 COST POSSIBLE AND IN COMPLIANCE 3818 01:44:30,597 --> 01:44:30,797 WITH 3819 01:44:30,797 --> 01:44:32,099 RENEWABLE ENERGY AND 3820 01:44:32,099 --> 01:44:32,966 CARBON 3821 01:44:32,966 --> 01:44:33,867 REDUCTION TARGETS. WE ANALYZE 3822 01:44:33,867 --> 01:44:34,434 THE FUTURE UNDER 3823 01:44:34,434 --> 01:44:35,836 A VARIETY OF SCENARIOS. 3824 01:44:35,836 --> 01:44:38,138 THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY WE USE 3825 01:44:38,138 --> 01:44:42,175 DAY TO DAY CAN VARY DEPENDING ON 3826 01:44:42,309 --> 01:44:43,076 TEMPERATURES. SO WHEN IT'S COLD 3827 01:44:43,076 --> 01:44:43,410 OUTSIDE, 3828 01:44:43,410 --> 01:44:45,212 WE MIGHT USE MORE POWER THAN 3829 01:44:45,212 --> 01:44:46,346 WHEN WE ARE EXPERIENCING 3830 01:44:46,346 --> 01:44:47,147 MILDER TEMPERATURES LIKE TODAY. 3831 01:44:47,147 --> 01:44:52,052 WE CURRENTLY RELY ON 3832 01:44:52,052 --> 01:44:52,919 HIDROE POWER AS A MAJORITY OF 3833 01:44:52,919 --> 01:44:53,287 OUR 3834 01:44:53,287 --> 01:44:55,055 GENERATION. SO WHEN WE HAVE 3835 01:44:55,055 --> 01:44:55,956 MORE PRECIPITATION WE CAN 3836 01:44:55,956 --> 01:44:56,890 GENERATE MORE POWER. 3837 01:44:56,890 --> 01:44:59,726 BUT WHEN WE EXPERIENCE DROUGHT 3838 01:44:59,726 --> 01:45:01,762 CONDITIONS, WE GENERATE 3839 01:45:01,762 --> 01:45:02,095 LESS POWER. 3840 01:45:02,095 --> 01:45:03,263 WITH CLIMATE CHANGE WE 3841 01:45:03,263 --> 01:45:04,398 ARE EXPERIENCING MORE VOLATILE 3842 01:45:04,398 --> 01:45:05,432 AND EXTREME CONDITIONS. 3843 01:45:05,432 --> 01:45:07,334 WE ALSO DON'T KNOW EXACTLY 3844 01:45:07,334 --> 01:45:10,604 HOW CUSTOMERS WILL USE 3845 01:45:10,604 --> 01:45:13,306 LICKTRICITY OR THE COST OF 3846 01:45:13,306 --> 01:45:13,674 ACQUIRING 3847 01:45:13,674 --> 01:45:16,310 NEW RESOURCES, SO THIS IS NOT A 3848 01:45:16,443 --> 01:45:17,577 FORECAST. WE ARE REACTING TO 3849 01:45:17,577 --> 01:45:19,446 A CHANGE OF LAND GROWTH, 3850 01:45:19,446 --> 01:45:19,746 INCREASING 3851 01:45:19,746 --> 01:45:20,981 ELECTRIFICATION, AND NEW 3852 01:45:20,981 --> 01:45:21,882 A EVOLVING LOAD RESOURCES. 3853 01:45:21,882 --> 01:45:23,750 WHEN WE DO OUR ANALYSIS, WE 3854 01:45:23,750 --> 01:45:25,052 LOOK AT A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT 3855 01:45:25,052 --> 01:45:25,385 FUTURES. 3856 01:45:25,385 --> 01:45:28,155 AS I SAID, WE RUN 900 3857 01:45:28,155 --> 01:45:29,589 VARIATIONS OF TEMPERATURE AND 3858 01:45:29,589 --> 01:45:30,824 PRECIPITATION TO FIND A 3859 01:45:30,824 --> 01:45:31,358 PORTFOLIO OF 3860 01:45:31,358 --> 01:45:35,295 RESOURCES THAT ENSURES WE CAN 3861 01:45:35,295 --> 01:45:37,698 RELIABLY MEET CUSTOMERS' NEEDS. 3862 01:45:37,698 --> 01:45:39,766 THIS 20-YEAR FORECAST GIVES 3863 01:45:39,766 --> 01:45:41,101 US A MENU OFOF FUTURES. 3864 01:45:41,101 --> 01:45:43,303 IT IS NOT AN ACQUISITION PLAN. 3865 01:45:43,303 --> 01:45:46,373 THIS IS A LONG- TERM OUTLOOK 3866 01:45:46,373 --> 01:45:52,245 TO INFORM OUR INTERNAL PLAY BOOK 3867 01:45:52,245 --> 01:45:54,715 FOR RESOURCE TRANSITION. 3868 01:45:54,715 --> 01:45:55,682 FINALLY AND IMPORTANTLY, 3869 01:45:55,682 --> 01:45:57,084 THE TIME LINE FOR COMPLETING 3870 01:45:57,084 --> 01:45:58,585 THESE STEPS IS LONG, AND WE ARE 3871 01:45:58,585 --> 01:45:59,319 IN 3872 01:45:59,319 --> 01:46:00,520 A PARTICULAR VOLATILE 3873 01:46:00,520 --> 01:46:01,021 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT. 3874 01:46:01,021 --> 01:46:03,457 FOR THIS ANALYSIS WE SET THE 3875 01:46:03,457 --> 01:46:05,158 ASSUMPTIONS AT THE END OF 2024. 3876 01:46:05,158 --> 01:46:07,461 AND WE HAVE SEEN 3877 01:46:07,461 --> 01:46:08,528 DRAMATIC CHANGES IN THE ENERGY 3878 01:46:08,528 --> 01:46:08,795 INDUSTRY 3879 01:46:08,795 --> 01:46:09,963 OVER THE PAST YEAR. 3880 01:46:09,963 --> 01:46:11,098 THE CURRENT 3881 01:46:11,098 --> 01:46:12,399 PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION 3882 01:46:12,399 --> 01:46:12,899 REPEALED TAX 3883 01:46:12,899 --> 01:46:14,668 CREDITS FOR MANY 3884 01:46:14,668 --> 01:46:15,469 RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES, 3885 01:46:15,469 --> 01:46:15,969 WHICH WILL 3886 01:46:15,969 --> 01:46:17,304 INCREASE THE COSTS TO 3887 01:46:17,304 --> 01:46:19,239 ACQUIRE THESE RESOURCES. 3888 01:46:19,239 --> 01:46:20,674 THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION 3889 01:46:20,674 --> 01:46:23,176 ALSO REPEALED TAX CREDITS 3890 01:46:23,176 --> 01:46:24,611 FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES 3891 01:46:24,611 --> 01:46:25,879 AFFECTING DEMAND FOR 3892 01:46:25,879 --> 01:46:27,481 EVs. THE PICTURE OF 3893 01:46:27,481 --> 01:46:29,382 MARKET AVAILABILITY IN THE 3894 01:46:29,382 --> 01:46:31,451 NORTHWEST HAS RADICALLY SHIFTED 3895 01:46:31,451 --> 01:46:34,054 WITH MULTIPLE STUDIES 3896 01:46:34,054 --> 01:46:35,255 IDENTIFYING THE 3897 01:46:35,255 --> 01:46:35,822 POSSIBILITY OF RESOURCE 3898 01:46:35,822 --> 01:46:36,923 SHORTAGES ACROSS THE 3899 01:46:36,923 --> 01:46:38,291 REGION DURING SEVERE WEATHER. 3900 01:46:38,291 --> 01:46:40,627 AND THERE HAS BEEN FURTHER 3901 01:46:40,627 --> 01:46:41,661 AND ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF 3902 01:46:41,661 --> 01:46:44,564 CLEAN, FIRM, RESOURCES SUCH 3903 01:46:44,564 --> 01:46:46,566 AS ENHANCED 3904 01:46:46,566 --> 01:46:48,602 GEOTHERMAL. THIS IS ONE OF THE 3905 01:46:48,602 --> 01:46:48,902 REASONS WE 3906 01:46:48,902 --> 01:46:50,370 REFRESH OUR ANALYSIS EVERY 3907 01:46:50,370 --> 01:46:52,172 TWO YEARS. 3908 01:46:52,172 --> 01:46:52,939 AND WE'LL BE DOING A DEEP DIVE 3909 01:46:52,939 --> 01:46:55,509 IN THE NEXT IRP TO CAPTURE 3910 01:46:55,509 --> 01:46:56,676 THE CHANGES AS WELL AS THE 3911 01:46:56,810 --> 01:46:58,845 INCREASING VOLATILITY WE ARE 3912 01:46:58,845 --> 01:47:08,889 SEEING ACROSS THE INDUSTRY. 3913 01:47:09,022 --> 01:47:15,228 >> OKAY, I'M GOING TO NOW DO A 3914 01:47:15,228 --> 01:47:18,331 PREVIEW OF IRP. 3915 01:47:18,331 --> 01:47:19,933 THAT SUSTAINED LOAD GROWTH 3916 01:47:19,933 --> 01:47:22,702 WITH INTER PEAKS HAS 3917 01:47:22,702 --> 01:47:25,672 INCREASED WEATHER VOLATILITY, 3918 01:47:25,672 --> 01:47:26,173 REQUIRING 3919 01:47:26,173 --> 01:47:28,108 INCREASED RESOURCES INCLUDING 3920 01:47:28,108 --> 01:47:29,443 TRANSMISSION TO BRING POWER FROM 3921 01:47:29,443 --> 01:47:30,477 WHERE IT IS GENERATED 3922 01:47:30,477 --> 01:47:30,644 TO 3923 01:47:30,644 --> 01:47:33,346 SEATTLE. THE RESOURCES THAT ARE 3924 01:47:33,346 --> 01:47:34,881 NON- EMITTING AND 3925 01:47:34,881 --> 01:47:36,383 READILY AVAILABLE ARE 3926 01:47:36,383 --> 01:47:37,284 INTERMITTENT RESOURCES SUCH AS 3927 01:47:37,284 --> 01:47:37,717 WIND 3928 01:47:37,717 --> 01:47:37,951 AND 3929 01:47:37,951 --> 01:47:40,520 SOLAR. THESE TYPES OF RESOURCES 3930 01:47:40,520 --> 01:47:42,355 ARE 3931 01:47:42,355 --> 01:47:43,089 WEATHER-DEPENDENT, SO THEY 3932 01:47:43,089 --> 01:47:45,025 RELY ON THE SUN SHINING AND THE 3933 01:47:45,025 --> 01:47:45,225 WIND 3934 01:47:45,225 --> 01:47:46,893 BLOWING, WHICH HAS MADE 3935 01:47:46,893 --> 01:47:48,295 US INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN 3936 01:47:48,295 --> 01:47:50,430 CLEAN, FIRM TECHNOLOGY 3937 01:47:50,430 --> 01:47:52,032 ENERGY SOLUTIONS LIKE 3938 01:47:52,032 --> 01:47:53,934 ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL 3939 01:47:53,934 --> 01:47:54,601 THAT WOULD BE CRITICAL AS PART 3940 01:47:54,601 --> 01:47:55,602 OF CITY 3941 01:47:55,602 --> 01:47:56,870 LIGHTS FUTURE RESOURCE 3942 01:47:56,870 --> 01:47:57,170 PORTFOLIO. 3943 01:47:57,170 --> 01:47:58,605 WE WILL BE DOING A 3944 01:47:58,605 --> 01:47:59,973 DEEPER DIVE ON THESE RESOURCES 3945 01:47:59,973 --> 01:48:00,207 IN 3946 01:48:00,207 --> 01:48:06,379 THE NEXT IRP. 3947 01:48:06,379 --> 01:48:07,747 SO AS I SAID BEFORE, 3948 01:48:07,747 --> 01:48:09,015 AN INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN IS 3949 01:48:09,015 --> 01:48:09,182 AN 3950 01:48:09,182 --> 01:48:10,217 OPPORTUNITY FOR CUSTOMER 3951 01:48:10,217 --> 01:48:11,484 AND STAKEHOLDERS TO SHARE 3952 01:48:11,484 --> 01:48:13,987 THEIR VISION FOR OUR FUTURE OF 3953 01:48:13,987 --> 01:48:14,187 POWER 3954 01:48:14,321 --> 01:48:15,488 SUPPLY. PART OF THE WAY WE 3955 01:48:15,488 --> 01:48:15,822 ACHIEVE THIS 3956 01:48:15,822 --> 01:48:19,759 IS BY ENGAGING WITH AN 3957 01:48:19,759 --> 01:48:21,428 ADVISORY PANEL FOR THAT INSIGHT. 3958 01:48:21,428 --> 01:48:23,530 THE IRP ADVISORY PANEL IS 3959 01:48:23,530 --> 01:48:25,265 A GROUP OF 12 ADVISERS 3960 01:48:25,265 --> 01:48:26,500 THAT PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON 3961 01:48:26,500 --> 01:48:27,434 THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR 3962 01:48:27,434 --> 01:48:27,734 INTEGRATED 3963 01:48:27,734 --> 01:48:28,401 RESOURCE PLAN. 3964 01:48:28,401 --> 01:48:31,104 THE PANEL IS COMPOSED 3965 01:48:31,104 --> 01:48:33,039 OF INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTING 3966 01:48:33,173 --> 01:48:35,375 CUSTOMERS, ENVIRONMENTAL 3967 01:48:35,375 --> 01:48:36,443 ORGANIZATIONS, REGIONAL 3968 01:48:36,443 --> 01:48:37,210 ENERGY- RELATED 3969 01:48:37,210 --> 01:48:39,913 GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND 3970 01:48:39,913 --> 01:48:40,213 ACADEMICS. 3971 01:48:40,213 --> 01:48:41,081 THERE WERE FIVE MEETINGS 3972 01:48:41,081 --> 01:48:43,750 WITH THIS ADVISORY PANEL FOR 3973 01:48:43,750 --> 01:48:52,259 THIS 3974 01:48:52,259 --> 01:48:52,859 IRP. 3975 01:48:52,859 --> 01:48:54,294 ANOTHER WAY WE 3976 01:48:54,294 --> 01:48:56,162 CONNECT INFORMATION IS OUTREACH. 3977 01:48:56,162 --> 01:49:00,066 THE CLEAN INFORMATION ACT OR 3978 01:49:00,066 --> 01:49:01,701 CEDA HAS CLEAR LANGUAGE AS 3979 01:49:01,701 --> 01:49:04,704 WE TRANSITION TO 100% EMITABLE 3980 01:49:04,704 --> 01:49:06,840 NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES, WE 3981 01:49:06,840 --> 01:49:09,042 ARE MAKING SURE WE'RE 3982 01:49:09,042 --> 01:49:09,876 NOT DISPROPORTIONATELY 3983 01:49:09,876 --> 01:49:12,045 BURNING COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE 3984 01:49:12,045 --> 01:49:12,245 BEEN 3985 01:49:12,379 --> 01:49:14,481 HISTORICALLY HARMED. 3986 01:49:14,481 --> 01:49:15,048 BEYOND THIS REQUIREMENT WE 3987 01:49:15,048 --> 01:49:15,515 WANTED TO MAKE SURE 3988 01:49:15,515 --> 01:49:17,317 WE MEANINGFUL ENGAGE OUR 3989 01:49:17,317 --> 01:49:19,419 CUSTOMERS FOR THEIR INPUT IN OUR 3990 01:49:19,419 --> 01:49:19,619 PLANS 3991 01:49:19,619 --> 01:49:21,588 AND PRIORITIES AND WORK 3992 01:49:21,588 --> 01:49:22,522 TOWARDS LONG-LASTING 3993 01:49:22,522 --> 01:49:23,556 RELATIONSHIPS WITH 3994 01:49:23,556 --> 01:49:25,258 OUR CUSTOMERS. WE APPROACH THIS 3995 01:49:25,258 --> 01:49:25,759 WORK 3996 01:49:25,759 --> 01:49:26,860 VERY INTENTIONALLY THROUGH 3997 01:49:26,860 --> 01:49:29,296 AN INTEGRATED 3998 01:49:29,296 --> 01:49:30,030 APPROACH, WHERE WE COORDINATED 3999 01:49:30,030 --> 01:49:30,864 ACROSS 4000 01:49:30,864 --> 01:49:32,165 SEVERAL UTILITY- WIDE PLANS TO 4001 01:49:32,165 --> 01:49:32,966 AVOID 4002 01:49:32,966 --> 01:49:40,006 OVERTAXING THE BURDENS WE WERE 4003 01:49:40,006 --> 01:49:40,907 TRYING 4004 01:49:40,907 --> 01:49:41,308 TO 4005 01:49:41,308 --> 01:49:43,944 REDUCE. AS SUCH WE COMBINED OUR 4006 01:49:43,944 --> 01:49:45,879 OUTREACH AS MUCH AS A TYPE OF 4007 01:49:45,879 --> 01:49:47,213 OUTREACH WAS ALIGNED. 4008 01:49:47,213 --> 01:49:48,348 OUTREACH BEGAN BY 4009 01:49:48,348 --> 01:49:49,549 FIRST EVALUATING EXISTING 4010 01:49:49,549 --> 01:49:53,687 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT REPORTS AND 4011 01:49:53,820 --> 01:49:54,421 THEN 4012 01:49:54,421 --> 01:49:56,923 INITIATING OUTREACH THROUGH 12 4013 01:49:56,923 --> 01:50:07,233 COMMUNITY EVENTS. 4014 01:50:08,335 --> 01:50:10,704 RELIABILITY 4015 01:50:10,704 --> 01:50:11,304 CAME THROUGH AS CUSTOMERS TOP 4016 01:50:11,304 --> 01:50:11,671 PRIORITY WITH 4017 01:50:11,671 --> 01:50:12,405 AFFORDABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT 4018 01:50:12,405 --> 01:50:13,073 ALSO BEING 4019 01:50:13,073 --> 01:50:14,007 VERY IMPORTANT. NOW I'M GOING 4020 01:50:14,007 --> 01:50:15,208 TO HAND IT 4021 01:50:15,208 --> 01:50:17,010 TO REBECCA WHO WILL BEGIN 4022 01:50:17,010 --> 01:50:21,214 TALKING ABOUT OUR STUDY 4023 01:50:21,214 --> 01:50:22,282 INPUTS. 4024 01:50:22,282 --> 01:50:23,917 >> THERE WE GO. 4025 01:50:23,917 --> 01:50:24,551 ALL RIGHT. 4026 01:50:24,551 --> 01:50:27,454 SO THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THE 4027 01:50:27,454 --> 01:50:29,155 IRP IS TO IDENTIFY A PORTFOLIO 4028 01:50:29,155 --> 01:50:29,322 OF 4029 01:50:29,322 --> 01:50:31,958 RESOURCES THAT WILL 4030 01:50:31,958 --> 01:50:33,360 ALLOW CITY LIGHT TO CONTINUE 4031 01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:35,528 ELIABLY SERVING OUR LOAD FROM 4032 01:50:35,528 --> 01:50:35,862 NOW OUT 4033 01:50:35,862 --> 01:50:37,697 TO 20 YEARS IN THE FUTURE AT 4034 01:50:37,697 --> 01:50:39,566 THE MOST COST- EFFECTIVE 4035 01:50:39,566 --> 01:50:39,966 PRICE POSSIBLE. 4036 01:50:39,966 --> 01:50:42,702 BEFORE WE CAN IDENTIFY WHAT NEW 4037 01:50:42,702 --> 01:50:45,038 RESOURCES ARE NEEDED, WE FIRST 4038 01:50:45,038 --> 01:50:47,507 HAVE TO CONSIDER WHAT IS ALREADY 4039 01:50:47,507 --> 01:50:49,676 IN CITY 4040 01:50:49,676 --> 01:50:50,543 LIGHTS PORTFOLIO. THIS GRAPHIC 4041 01:50:50,543 --> 01:50:51,478 IS A MAP OF THE 4042 01:50:51,478 --> 01:50:55,148 NORTHWEST AND HIGHLIGHTS OUR 4043 01:50:55,148 --> 01:50:56,716 EXISTING RESOURCE PORTFOLIO. 4044 01:50:56,716 --> 01:50:59,052 OUR 4045 01:50:59,052 --> 01:50:59,686 OWN HYDRO-POWERED RESOURCES ARE 4046 01:50:59,686 --> 01:51:03,790 MARKED BY THE BLUE DOTS. 4047 01:51:03,790 --> 01:51:04,691 IN PARTICULAR THE 4048 01:51:04,691 --> 01:51:06,359 BOUNDARY DAM IS UP IN THE NORTH 4049 01:51:06,359 --> 01:51:06,626 EAST 4050 01:51:06,626 --> 01:51:07,727 CORNER OF WASHINGTON STATE. 4051 01:51:07,727 --> 01:51:09,829 THE ORANGE DOT SHOWS OUR TREATY 4052 01:51:09,829 --> 01:51:12,499 RIGHTS FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA. 4053 01:51:12,499 --> 01:51:14,634 THE BLACK DOTS INDICATE 4054 01:51:14,634 --> 01:51:16,803 OUR LONG-TERM HIDROCONTRACTS, 4055 01:51:16,803 --> 01:51:19,272 AND THE YELLOW DOTS DEMARK OUR 4056 01:51:19,272 --> 01:51:19,439 OR 4057 01:51:19,439 --> 01:51:21,341 LONG- TERM CONTRACTS, 4058 01:51:21,341 --> 01:51:25,745 IN PARTICULAR WIND IN THE GEORGE 4059 01:51:25,745 --> 01:51:29,983 AREA OF NORTHERN. 4060 01:51:29,983 --> 01:51:32,652 ABOUT HALF OF THAT IS SUPPLIED 4061 01:51:32,652 --> 01:51:43,196 BY OUR BOUNDARY HYDRO PROJECTS. 4062 01:51:45,899 --> 01:51:47,434 IN ADDITION TO HYDRO POWER ABOUT 4063 01:51:47,434 --> 01:51:49,703 8% OF CITY LIGHTS MIXES WIND AND 4064 01:51:49,703 --> 01:51:51,671 ABOUT 4065 01:51:51,671 --> 01:51:52,572 5% COMES FROM PURCHASES IN THE 4066 01:51:52,572 --> 01:51:52,906 WEST'S 4067 01:51:52,906 --> 01:51:55,508 WHOLESALE ENERGY MARKET. 4068 01:51:55,508 --> 01:51:58,078 SINCE AROUND 40 TO 4069 01:51:58,078 --> 01:51:59,679 45% OF CITY LIGHTS POWER SUPPLY 4070 01:51:59,679 --> 01:51:59,846 IS 4071 01:51:59,846 --> 01:52:01,448 PROVIDED THROUGH A LONG- TERM 4072 01:52:01,448 --> 01:52:01,715 CONTRACT 4073 01:52:01,715 --> 01:52:02,949 WITH THE BONNIVILLE POWER 4074 01:52:02,949 --> 01:52:04,551 ADMINISTRATION OR BPA, WE WANTED 4075 01:52:04,551 --> 01:52:06,586 TO TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE 4076 01:52:06,586 --> 01:52:06,953 BIT MORE. 4077 01:52:06,953 --> 01:52:10,623 THIS MAP SHOWS 4078 01:52:10,623 --> 01:52:12,192 BPA SERVICE TERRITORY AND THE 4079 01:52:12,192 --> 01:52:14,894 31- DAM FEDERAL 4080 01:52:14,894 --> 01:52:16,196 HYDRO 4081 01:52:16,196 --> 01:52:17,197 POWERED NETWORK. LAYERED ON TOP 4082 01:52:17,197 --> 01:52:18,798 ARE THE 4083 01:52:18,798 --> 01:52:20,300 SEATTLE LIGHTS RESOURCES FROM 4084 01:52:20,300 --> 01:52:20,533 THE 4085 01:52:20,533 --> 01:52:21,668 PREVIOUS SLIDE AND OUR OWN 4086 01:52:21,668 --> 01:52:23,570 HIDROPLANTS IN NAVY BLUE. 4087 01:52:23,570 --> 01:52:25,705 BPA SERVICE TERRITORY INCLUDES 4088 01:52:25,705 --> 01:52:27,073 30,000 SQUARE MILES 4089 01:52:27,073 --> 01:52:28,942 CONSISTING OF WASHINGTON, 4090 01:52:28,942 --> 01:52:29,175 OREGON, 4091 01:52:29,175 --> 01:52:30,743 IDAHO, WESTERN MONTANA, AND 4092 01:52:30,743 --> 01:52:34,114 SMALL PORTIONS OF OF CALIFORNIA, 4093 01:52:34,114 --> 01:52:35,148 NEVADA, UTAH, 4094 01:52:35,148 --> 01:52:37,016 AND WYOMING. THE DAMS ARE OWNED 4095 01:52:37,016 --> 01:52:37,383 AND OPERATED 4096 01:52:37,383 --> 01:52:41,488 BY THE U.S. ARMY CORP 4097 01:52:41,488 --> 01:52:45,191 OF ENGINEERS OR THE U.S. BUREAU 4098 01:52:45,191 --> 01:52:55,268 OF 4099 01:52:56,336 --> 01:52:56,603 RECLAMATION. 4100 01:52:56,603 --> 01:53:00,807 OF NOTE, BPA OWNS 75% OF 4101 01:53:00,807 --> 01:53:02,142 PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRANSMISSION 4102 01:53:02,142 --> 01:53:04,544 INCLUDING 90% OF THE 4103 01:53:04,544 --> 01:53:06,646 TRANSMISSION CITY LIGHT USES TO 4104 01:53:06,646 --> 01:53:06,946 MEET LOAD. 4105 01:53:06,946 --> 01:53:09,182 THE STATUTES THAT CREATED 4106 01:53:09,182 --> 01:53:11,084 BPA 4107 01:53:11,084 --> 01:53:11,718 MANDATE IT SELL POWER AT COST, 4108 01:53:11,718 --> 01:53:14,387 WHICH IS A MUCH LOWER COST 4109 01:53:14,387 --> 01:53:16,389 POWER SOURCE 4110 01:53:16,389 --> 01:53:18,992 THAN ALTERNATIVES. SEATTLE CITY 4111 01:53:18,992 --> 01:53:19,759 LIGHT BUYS POWER 4112 01:53:19,893 --> 01:53:22,095 THROUGH BPA THROUGH LIGHT 4113 01:53:22,095 --> 01:53:23,296 CONTRACT AND IT IS AN IMPORTANT 4114 01:53:23,296 --> 01:53:25,298 COMPONENT TO SERVING LOAD. 4115 01:53:25,298 --> 01:53:26,766 SPEAKING OF LOAD, ONE OF THE 4116 01:53:26,766 --> 01:53:29,469 MOST IMPORTANT INPUTS INTO 4117 01:53:29,469 --> 01:53:32,205 THE IRP IS THE 4118 01:53:32,205 --> 01:53:34,107 LOAD FORECAST, WHICH IS HOW MUCH 4119 01:53:34,107 --> 01:53:34,507 ELECTRICITY 4120 01:53:34,507 --> 01:53:35,909 WE EXPECT OUR CUSTOMERS TO USE 4121 01:53:35,909 --> 01:53:36,309 IN 4122 01:53:36,309 --> 01:53:36,609 THE FUTURE. 4123 01:53:36,609 --> 01:53:39,012 THE LOAD FORECAST HELPS TELL 4124 01:53:39,012 --> 01:53:40,847 US HOW 4125 01:53:40,847 --> 01:53:41,447 MUCH NEW RESOURCE GENERATION 4126 01:53:41,447 --> 01:53:43,283 WE'LL NEED AND 4127 01:53:43,283 --> 01:53:44,083 WHEN IN ORDER TO CONTINUE 4128 01:53:44,083 --> 01:53:45,051 ELIABLY SERVING 4129 01:53:45,051 --> 01:53:45,752 OUR CUSTOMERS LOADS. 4130 01:53:45,752 --> 01:53:47,654 AS A NOTE, WHEN WE REFER TO 4131 01:53:47,654 --> 01:53:49,522 MEGAWATTS, THAT IS A UNIT OF 4132 01:53:49,656 --> 01:53:53,393 POWER. ONE MEGAWATT CAN POWER 4133 01:53:53,393 --> 01:53:55,762 1,100 4134 01:53:55,762 --> 01:53:57,630 SINGLE 4135 01:53:57,630 --> 01:53:58,264 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN SEATTLE. 4136 01:53:58,264 --> 01:53:59,399 ON THE GRAPHIC THE 4137 01:53:59,399 --> 01:54:00,867 HORIZONTAL AXIS SHOWS TIME IN 4138 01:54:00,867 --> 01:54:01,301 YEARS. 4139 01:54:01,301 --> 01:54:02,902 AND THE VERTICAL AXIS IS 4140 01:54:02,902 --> 01:54:04,537 AVERAGE LOAD IN MEGAWATTS OR 4141 01:54:04,537 --> 01:54:04,737 PEAK 4142 01:54:04,737 --> 01:54:07,507 LOAD IN 4143 01:54:07,507 --> 01:54:08,341 MEGAWATTS. THE SOLID LINES ON IT 4144 01:54:08,341 --> 01:54:09,409 LEFT 4145 01:54:09,409 --> 01:54:09,809 ARE HISTORICAL 4146 01:54:09,809 --> 01:54:11,377 ACTUAL LOADS. AND THE DOTTED 4147 01:54:11,377 --> 01:54:11,578 LINES 4148 01:54:11,578 --> 01:54:13,179 ON THE RIGHT ARE THE FORECASTED 4149 01:54:13,179 --> 01:54:13,479 LOAD 4150 01:54:13,479 --> 01:54:14,614 IN THE 2026 IRP. 4151 01:54:14,614 --> 01:54:16,950 ON THE BOTTOM IS ANNUAL 4152 01:54:16,950 --> 01:54:18,918 AVERAGE LOAD AND AVERAGE 4153 01:54:18,918 --> 01:54:19,219 MEGAWATTS. 4154 01:54:19,219 --> 01:54:21,554 OUR HISTORIC LOAD WAS RELATIVELY 4155 01:54:21,554 --> 01:54:24,991 FLAT DUE TO 4156 01:54:24,991 --> 01:54:25,758 AGGRESSIVE EFFICIENCY EFFORTS 4157 01:54:25,758 --> 01:54:26,593 EVEN 4158 01:54:26,593 --> 01:54:28,862 WITH UNDERLYING LOAD GROWTH IN 4159 01:54:28,862 --> 01:54:29,028 OUR 4160 01:54:29,162 --> 01:54:31,431 AREA. THE UPPER LINE SHOWS THE 4161 01:54:31,431 --> 01:54:31,631 PEAK 4162 01:54:31,631 --> 01:54:33,066 LOAD IN MEGAWATTS. 4163 01:54:33,066 --> 01:54:34,701 PEAK LOAD IS THE MEGAWATT FROM 4164 01:54:34,701 --> 01:54:36,002 THE SINGLE HOUR WITH THE 4165 01:54:36,002 --> 01:54:37,470 HIGHEST LOAD FOR THAT ENTIRE 4166 01:54:37,470 --> 01:54:37,670 YEAR. 4167 01:54:37,670 --> 01:54:45,411 WE HAVE STARTED TO SEE PEAK 4168 01:54:45,411 --> 01:54:45,812 LOAD INCREASING. 4169 01:54:45,812 --> 01:54:47,881 IN DECEMBER 2022 WE REACHED 4170 01:54:47,881 --> 01:54:50,416 THE HIGHEST PEAK LOAD WE HAD 4171 01:54:50,416 --> 01:54:50,717 SEEN ININ 4172 01:54:50,717 --> 01:54:52,418 AT 4173 01:54:52,418 --> 01:54:53,052 LEAST 30 YEARS, AND THEN WE BEAT 4174 01:54:53,052 --> 01:54:54,454 THAT PEAK IN JANUARY 4175 01:54:54,454 --> 01:54:56,356 2024 BY OVER 100 MEGAWATTS. 4176 01:54:56,356 --> 01:54:57,890 OUR FORECAST OF LOADS SHOW 4177 01:54:57,890 --> 01:55:00,193 A STEADY INCREASE WITH 4178 01:55:00,193 --> 01:55:01,728 PEAKS INCREASING FASTER THAN 4179 01:55:01,728 --> 01:55:02,061 AVERAGE LOAD. 4180 01:55:02,061 --> 01:55:04,464 THE ARROWS ON THE RIGHT SIDE 4181 01:55:04,464 --> 01:55:06,099 OF THE GRAPH INDICATES SOME OF 4182 01:55:06,099 --> 01:55:06,266 THE 4183 01:55:06,266 --> 01:55:07,634 MAIN DRIVERS AFFECTING OUR LOAD. 4184 01:55:07,634 --> 01:55:08,968 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND 4185 01:55:08,968 --> 01:55:10,203 ELECTRIFICATION ARE DRIVING 4186 01:55:10,203 --> 01:55:12,038 ININCREASES IN ELECTRICITY 4187 01:55:12,038 --> 01:55:14,707 USE, WHILE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND 4188 01:55:14,707 --> 01:55:17,443 ROOFTOP SOLAR CAN 4189 01:55:17,443 --> 01:55:18,077 HELP OFFSET SOME OF THOSE 4190 01:55:18,077 --> 01:55:18,378 INCREASES. 4191 01:55:18,378 --> 01:55:19,912 IN THE APPENDIX OF 4192 01:55:19,912 --> 01:55:21,547 THIS PRESENTATION WE HAVE TWO 4193 01:55:21,547 --> 01:55:21,781 SLIDES 4194 01:55:21,781 --> 01:55:23,016 COMPARING THE LOAD FORECAST USED 4195 01:55:23,016 --> 01:55:25,418 IN THIS 4196 01:55:25,418 --> 01:55:26,486 2026 IRP TO PREVIOUS LOAD 4197 01:55:26,486 --> 01:55:26,853 FORECASTS, FOR 4198 01:55:26,853 --> 01:55:27,620 YOUR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 4199 01:55:27,620 --> 01:55:28,454 IF YOU WOULD 4200 01:55:28,454 --> 01:55:30,023 LIKE IT. WITH THESE GROWING 4201 01:55:30,023 --> 01:55:30,423 AVERAGE LOADS 4202 01:55:30,423 --> 01:55:32,191 SQUEVEN FASTER GROWING PEAK 4203 01:55:32,191 --> 01:55:34,661 LOADS, WE WILL 4204 01:55:34,661 --> 01:55:35,995 CERTAINLY NEED NEW RESOURCES TO 4205 01:55:35,995 --> 01:55:36,496 HELP MEET 4206 01:55:36,496 --> 01:55:39,365 OUR LOADS IN THE COMING YEARS. 4207 01:55:39,365 --> 01:55:41,334 DUE TO THIS GROWING LOAD, 4208 01:55:41,334 --> 01:55:43,069 THE IRP RESULTS INDICATE A 4209 01:55:43,069 --> 01:55:44,570 NEED FOR NEW GENERATING 4210 01:55:44,570 --> 01:55:44,871 RESOURCES. 4211 01:55:44,871 --> 01:55:48,141 OUR KEY MODELLED STUDY YEARS 4212 01:55:48,141 --> 01:55:50,176 ARE ON THE HORIZONTAL ACCESS. 4213 01:55:50,176 --> 01:55:53,313 AND ALONG THE VERTICAL 4214 01:55:53,313 --> 01:55:54,781 ACCESS THE GENERATION AND 4215 01:55:54,781 --> 01:55:56,282 AVERAGE 4216 01:55:56,282 --> 01:55:58,251 MEGAWATTS OF THE 4217 01:55:58,251 --> 01:56:00,553 PORTFOLIO CREATED BY OUR IRP 4218 01:56:00,553 --> 01:56:01,354 MODEL ON 4219 01:56:01,354 --> 01:56:02,522 TOP OF THE STACKED LOADS. 4220 01:56:02,522 --> 01:56:04,757 ON TOP OF THAT ARE THE AVERAGE 4221 01:56:04,757 --> 01:56:06,426 MEGAWATTS SHOWN AS THE 4222 01:56:06,426 --> 01:56:08,127 SOLID BLACK LINE, THE FORECASTED 4223 01:56:08,127 --> 01:56:10,530 PEAK LOAD OR MEGAWATTS SHOWN AS 4224 01:56:10,530 --> 01:56:11,264 THE DASHED BLACK LINE. 4225 01:56:11,264 --> 01:56:13,132 THE BARS REPRESENTING THE ANNUAL 4226 01:56:13,132 --> 01:56:17,403 GENERATION BREAK OUT THE ANNUAL 4227 01:56:17,403 --> 01:56:20,239 CONTRABUTIONS FROM DIFFERENT 4228 01:56:20,373 --> 01:56:21,474 RESOURCE TYPES. ON THE BOTTOM IN 4229 01:56:21,474 --> 01:56:22,308 GREEN IS 4230 01:56:22,308 --> 01:56:25,778 THE CONTRACT WE GET FROM OUR 4231 01:56:25,778 --> 01:56:27,046 BONNIVILLE ADMINISTRATION 4232 01:56:27,046 --> 01:56:27,513 OR BPA. 4233 01:56:27,513 --> 01:56:31,317 IN DARK BLUE IS HYDRO POWER AND 4234 01:56:31,317 --> 01:56:33,486 THE LIGHT BLUE IS OTHER 4235 01:56:33,486 --> 01:56:34,821 EXISTING RESOURCES LIKE SOME 4236 01:56:34,821 --> 01:56:38,358 LIGHT CONTRACTS WE HAVE IN 4237 01:56:38,358 --> 01:56:43,463 THE COUNTY. THE REMAINING COLOR 4238 01:56:43,463 --> 01:56:44,630 SHOWS WHAT 4239 01:56:44,630 --> 01:56:46,966 WE WILL NEED TO MEET 4240 01:56:46,966 --> 01:56:47,333 RESOURCE 4241 01:56:47,333 --> 01:56:49,002 LOAD. THE ORANGE SHOWS NEW WIND 4242 01:56:49,002 --> 01:56:52,605 GENERATION, THE YELLOW 4243 01:56:52,605 --> 01:56:53,740 SHOWS GENERATION FOR NEW 4244 01:56:53,740 --> 01:56:54,574 SOLAR AND SHORT DURATION 4245 01:56:54,574 --> 01:56:55,041 BATTERIES. 4246 01:56:55,041 --> 01:56:58,244 AT THE TOP IS THE NEW FIRM 4247 01:56:58,244 --> 01:56:59,479 ENERGY YOURS IN 4248 01:56:59,479 --> 01:57:00,646 RED, WHICH I'LL GET BACK TO IN 4249 01:57:00,646 --> 01:57:01,714 A MINUTE. 4250 01:57:01,714 --> 01:57:03,516 YOU CAN SEE THAT THE 4251 01:57:03,516 --> 01:57:04,317 ANNUALANNUAL 4252 01:57:04,317 --> 01:57:04,951 AVERAGE GENERATION IS 4253 01:57:04,951 --> 01:57:07,086 FAR GREATER THAN THE AVERAGE 4254 01:57:07,086 --> 01:57:08,254 ANNUAL 4255 01:57:08,254 --> 01:57:10,323 LOAD, BUT BELOW 4256 01:57:10,323 --> 01:57:12,125 OUR PROJECTED PEAK 4257 01:57:12,125 --> 01:57:14,227 LOAD. THIS IS BECAUSE THE 4258 01:57:14,227 --> 01:57:15,962 GENERATION RESOURCES NEED TO 4259 01:57:15,962 --> 01:57:19,766 RELIABLY MEET PEAK LOAD ON 4260 01:57:19,766 --> 01:57:21,467 ANAN BASIS EVEN DURING EXTREME 4261 01:57:21,467 --> 01:57:21,834 EVENTS. 4262 01:57:21,834 --> 01:57:28,074 THAT MEANS DURING NONEXTREME 4263 01:57:28,207 --> 01:57:28,841 WEATHER, WHICH IS MOST OF THE 4264 01:57:28,841 --> 01:57:29,475 TIME, THERE IS EXTRA GENERATION 4265 01:57:29,475 --> 01:57:30,143 AFTER WE'VE MET OUR OWN LOAD. 4266 01:57:30,143 --> 01:57:31,444 THAT EXTRA GENERATION IS 4267 01:57:31,444 --> 01:57:33,212 NORMALLY SOLD IN THE 4268 01:57:33,212 --> 01:57:33,646 GENERATION MARKET. 4269 01:57:33,646 --> 01:57:35,181 THIS PORTFOLIO CAN MEET 4270 01:57:35,181 --> 01:57:37,583 PEAKS 4271 01:57:37,583 --> 01:57:38,251 THROUGH FLEXING OUR OWN DEMAND 4272 01:57:38,251 --> 01:57:39,786 RESOURCES SUCH AS HUR OWN 4273 01:57:39,786 --> 01:57:41,921 HIDROPLANTS AND DEMAND 4274 01:57:41,921 --> 01:57:43,256 RESOURCE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS 4275 01:57:43,256 --> 01:57:43,456 SOME 4276 01:57:43,456 --> 01:57:44,657 LIMITED ACCESS TO THE MARKET. 4277 01:57:44,657 --> 01:57:46,626 OUR NEED FOR NEW 4278 01:57:46,626 --> 01:57:48,194 RESOURCES ESPECIALLY FIRM ENERGY 4279 01:57:48,194 --> 01:57:49,862 IS HEAVILY DRIVEN BY 4280 01:57:49,862 --> 01:57:51,197 SUSTAINED PEAKS, MOSTLY IN THE 4281 01:57:51,197 --> 01:57:51,431 WINTER. 4282 01:57:51,431 --> 01:57:54,300 FOR THE PRIMARY IRP ANALYSIS, 4283 01:57:54,300 --> 01:57:55,768 WE LIMITED SUPPLY 4284 01:57:55,768 --> 01:57:57,170 RESOURCES TO WIND, SOLAR, AND 4285 01:57:57,170 --> 01:57:58,504 SHORT DURATION 4286 01:57:58,638 --> 01:58:01,007 BATTERIES. THESE TYPES OF 4287 01:58:01,007 --> 01:58:01,908 RESOURCES ARE WEATHER DEPENDENT, 4288 01:58:01,908 --> 01:58:02,308 AND THERE'S 4289 01:58:02,308 --> 01:58:06,579 A RISK OF 4290 01:58:06,579 --> 01:58:07,113 THESE RESOURCES NOT BEING 4291 01:58:07,113 --> 01:58:07,547 AVAILABLE WHEN WE 4292 01:58:07,547 --> 01:58:08,848 NEED THEM AND IMPACTING OUR 4293 01:58:08,848 --> 01:58:12,919 ABILITY TO RELIABLY MEET 4294 01:58:12,919 --> 01:58:13,286 CUSTOMER NEEDS. 4295 01:58:13,286 --> 01:58:14,454 GENERIC FIRM ENERGY WAS LAYERED 4296 01:58:14,454 --> 01:58:16,389 ON TOP TO MAKE SURE OUR 4297 01:58:16,389 --> 01:58:18,191 PORTFOLIO CAN RELIABLY MEET 4298 01:58:18,191 --> 01:58:18,524 LOADS. 4299 01:58:18,524 --> 01:58:20,893 IN THE REAL WORLD FIRM ENERGY 4300 01:58:20,893 --> 01:58:22,895 AS MODELLED IN THIS IRP 4301 01:58:22,895 --> 01:58:24,664 CAN REPRESENT THINGS SUCH AS 4302 01:58:24,664 --> 01:58:26,933 BASE LOAD RESOURCES LIKE SMALL, 4303 01:58:26,933 --> 01:58:30,002 MODULAR NUKE, REACTORS AND 4304 01:58:30,002 --> 01:58:32,738 ENHANCED GEOTHERMALS, 4305 01:58:32,738 --> 01:58:35,875 PEAKERS LIKE GENE HYDROGEN 4306 01:58:35,875 --> 01:58:36,109 PEAKER 4307 01:58:36,109 --> 01:58:37,477 PLANTS, AND SHORT- TERM 4308 01:58:37,477 --> 01:58:37,743 CONTRACTS 4309 01:58:37,743 --> 01:58:39,645 WITH FIRM ENERGY PROVISIONS 4310 01:58:39,645 --> 01:58:42,748 THAT CAN BE RENEGOTIATED BY OUR 4311 01:58:42,748 --> 01:58:42,949 POWER 4312 01:58:43,082 --> 01:58:47,320 CONTRACTS TEAM. IN A SEPARATE 4313 01:58:47,320 --> 01:58:48,187 ANALYSIS WE 4314 01:58:48,187 --> 01:58:49,021 EVALUATED OTHER FIRM 4315 01:58:49,021 --> 01:58:51,591 CLEAN RESOURCES SUCH AS ENHANCED 4316 01:58:51,591 --> 01:58:53,426 GEOTHERMTLE AND MODULAR 4317 01:58:53,426 --> 01:58:54,660 REACTIVE TECHNOLOGY MORE IN- 4318 01:58:54,660 --> 01:58:57,763 DEPTH, AS WELL AS ON DEMAND 4319 01:58:57,763 --> 01:58:58,064 RESOURCES, 4320 01:58:58,064 --> 01:58:58,631 SPECIFICALLY LONG DURATION 4321 01:58:58,631 --> 01:59:01,467 STORAGE AND RENEWABLE PEAKERS. 4322 01:59:01,467 --> 01:59:02,201 THESE RESOURCES 4323 01:59:02,201 --> 01:59:04,470 SHOWED SIGNIFICANT VALUE AND 4324 01:59:04,470 --> 01:59:04,670 WILL 4325 01:59:04,670 --> 01:59:06,272 HELP MEET FUTURE LONG DURATION 4326 01:59:06,272 --> 01:59:06,506 EVENTS 4327 01:59:06,506 --> 01:59:07,907 THAT ARE BECOMING MORE FREQUENT. 4328 01:59:07,907 --> 01:59:10,009 WE HAVE SEEN SIGNIFICANT 4329 01:59:10,009 --> 01:59:12,245 CHANGES IN THE OPERATING 4330 01:59:12,245 --> 01:59:13,713 ENVIRONMENT OVER THE PAST TWO 4331 01:59:13,713 --> 01:59:14,881 YEARS INCLUDING IN POLICY, 4332 01:59:14,881 --> 01:59:15,748 AVAILABILITY, AND DEVELOPMENT 4333 01:59:15,748 --> 01:59:19,051 OF FIRM RESOURCES, LOAD GROWTH, 4334 01:59:19,051 --> 01:59:19,752 AND REGIONAL ENERGY NEEDS. 4335 01:59:19,752 --> 01:59:22,622 DUE TO TIMING, THESE CHANGES 4336 01:59:22,622 --> 01:59:24,190 WERE NOT INCORPORATED INTO 4337 01:59:24,190 --> 01:59:25,024 THIS ANALYSIS. 4338 01:59:25,024 --> 01:59:26,025 THIS IS PART OF THE REASON 4339 01:59:26,025 --> 01:59:28,327 WHY WE REFRESH THE IRP EVERY 4340 01:59:28,327 --> 01:59:30,263 TWO YEARS. 4341 01:59:30,263 --> 01:59:31,864 FOR THE 2028 IRP WE WILL DO 4342 01:59:31,864 --> 01:59:33,900 A DEEPER ANALYSIS ON FIRM 4343 01:59:33,900 --> 01:59:35,101 RESOURCE AND THE CRITICAL ROLE 4344 01:59:35,101 --> 01:59:35,401 THEY WILL 4345 01:59:35,401 --> 01:59:38,004 PLAY IN OUR PORTFOLIO IN THE 4346 01:59:38,004 --> 01:59:38,337 FUTURE. 4347 01:59:38,337 --> 01:59:46,812 NOW, I'LL HAND IT OFF TO 4348 01:59:46,812 --> 01:59:48,948 VERENE TO TALK ABOUT THIS HOW WE 4349 01:59:48,948 --> 01:59:49,148 WILL 4350 01:59:49,148 --> 01:59:50,016 GET THIS 4351 01:59:50,016 --> 01:59:51,617 TO SEATTLE. 4352 01:59:51,751 --> 01:59:53,019 >> THANKS. IT ALSO SHOWS A 4353 01:59:53,019 --> 01:59:53,286 CRITICAL 4354 01:59:53,286 --> 01:59:54,687 NEED FOR ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION 4355 01:59:54,687 --> 01:59:59,458 CAPACITY TO BRING NEW AND 4356 01:59:59,458 --> 02:00:01,060 EXISTING GENERATION BACK 4357 02:00:01,060 --> 02:00:01,260 TO 4358 02:00:01,260 --> 02:00:01,827 SEATTLE TO SERVE OUR LOAD. 4359 02:00:01,827 --> 02:00:02,662 TRANSITION IS A SYSTEM 4360 02:00:02,662 --> 02:00:04,263 OF HIGH- VOLTAGE WIRES THAT 4361 02:00:04,263 --> 02:00:06,999 MOVES ELECTRICITY AROUND THE 4362 02:00:06,999 --> 02:00:08,234 REGION FROM GENERATION RESOURCES 4363 02:00:08,234 --> 02:00:08,568 TO 4364 02:00:08,568 --> 02:00:09,435 ELECTRIC LOADS. 4365 02:00:09,435 --> 02:00:11,103 SIMILAR TO A FEW SLIDES BACK, 4366 02:00:11,103 --> 02:00:17,443 THIS SLIDE SHOWS A MAP 4367 02:00:17,443 --> 02:00:18,110 OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND 4368 02:00:18,110 --> 02:00:18,311 SHOWS 4369 02:00:18,311 --> 02:00:19,312 BP'S SERVICE AREA SHOWING MOST 4370 02:00:19,312 --> 02:00:20,046 OF THE 4371 02:00:20,046 --> 02:00:20,513 MAP. 4372 02:00:20,513 --> 02:00:22,682 BPA'S DAMS ARE SHOWN AS 4373 02:00:22,682 --> 02:00:25,184 BLACK HALF CIRCLES, AND 4374 02:00:25,184 --> 02:00:27,186 BPA'S TRANSMISSION NETWORK IS 4375 02:00:27,186 --> 02:00:27,620 SHOWN AS 4376 02:00:27,620 --> 02:00:28,020 DARK 4377 02:00:28,020 --> 02:00:29,355 GREEN LINES. THE PURPLE DOTTED 4378 02:00:29,355 --> 02:00:30,489 LINES ARE 4379 02:00:30,489 --> 02:00:32,258 NON- BPA TRANSITION LINES. 4380 02:00:32,258 --> 02:00:34,760 BPA OPERATES 15,000 MILES 4381 02:00:34,760 --> 02:00:36,395 OF HIGH- VOLTAGE 4382 02:00:36,395 --> 02:00:36,996 ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION. 4383 02:00:36,996 --> 02:00:39,632 AND AS NOTED EARLIER, THAT 4384 02:00:39,632 --> 02:00:42,101 REPRESENTS 75% OF THE 4385 02:00:42,101 --> 02:00:43,502 TOTAL TRANSMISSION IN THE 4386 02:00:43,502 --> 02:00:44,870 PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND INCLUDES 4387 02:00:44,870 --> 02:00:46,472 90% OF 4388 02:00:46,472 --> 02:00:49,508 THE TRANSITION SEATTLE CITY 4389 02:00:49,508 --> 02:00:51,210 USES TO MEET LOAD. 4390 02:00:51,210 --> 02:00:53,412 COUNTING THE TRANSITION NEEDED 4391 02:00:53,412 --> 02:00:54,180 TO MOVE POWER GENERATION AT 4392 02:00:54,180 --> 02:00:57,650 BOUNDARY, ONE OF THE CITY LIGHTS 4393 02:00:57,650 --> 02:01:01,520 OWNED LARGE 4394 02:01:01,520 --> 02:01:04,690 HYDRO PROJECTS. SO BPA'S SYSTEM 4395 02:01:04,690 --> 02:01:05,024 IS CRITICAL 4396 02:01:05,024 --> 02:01:07,960 TO SERVE OUR ELECTRIC LOADS. 4397 02:01:07,960 --> 02:01:08,694 SEATTLE'S OWN TRANSMISSION 4398 02:01:08,694 --> 02:01:10,463 LINES AND LONG- TERM 4399 02:01:10,463 --> 02:01:11,464 TRANSMISSION CONTRACTS ARE 4400 02:01:11,464 --> 02:01:12,298 CURRENTLY SUFFICIENT TO SERVE 4401 02:01:12,298 --> 02:01:12,965 OUR LOAD, 4402 02:01:12,965 --> 02:01:15,868 BUT AS DEMAND GROWS, OUR 4403 02:01:15,868 --> 02:01:21,340 IRP RESULTS ALSO IDENTIFIED THE 4404 02:01:21,340 --> 02:01:23,109 NEED 4405 02:01:23,109 --> 02:01:23,776 FOR NEW TRANSMISSION CAPACITY IN 4406 02:01:23,776 --> 02:01:24,410 ORDER TO DELIVER GENERATION FROM 4407 02:01:24,410 --> 02:01:24,877 BOTH NEW AND EXISTING 4408 02:01:24,877 --> 02:01:26,846 RESOURCES TO RELIABLY SERVE OUR 4409 02:01:26,846 --> 02:01:27,747 CUSTOMER'S 4410 02:01:27,747 --> 02:01:29,181 ELECTRIC LOAD. HOWEVER, 4411 02:01:29,181 --> 02:01:30,816 TRANSMISSION IS VERYVERY 4412 02:01:30,816 --> 02:01:31,250 DIFFICULT TO BUILD. 4413 02:01:31,250 --> 02:01:32,852 AND TRANSMISSION PROJECTS TAKE 4414 02:01:32,852 --> 02:01:34,620 A VERY LONG TIME TO COMPLETE. 4415 02:01:34,620 --> 02:01:37,089 IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, 4416 02:01:37,089 --> 02:01:39,158 WE HAVE SEEN TRANSITION 4417 02:01:39,158 --> 02:01:41,227 PROJECTS TAKE 15 TO 20 YEARS TO 4418 02:01:41,227 --> 02:01:42,194 BUILD FROM START TO FINISH. 4419 02:01:42,194 --> 02:01:44,130 TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS, THE 4420 02:01:44,130 --> 02:01:48,034 IRP MODEL DID NOT ALLOW 4421 02:01:48,034 --> 02:01:48,367 TRANSMISSION 4422 02:01:48,367 --> 02:01:49,535 ACONDITIONS TO SEATTLE 4423 02:01:49,535 --> 02:01:52,305 CITY LIGHT SYSTEM UNTIL 2035. 4424 02:01:52,305 --> 02:01:55,007 BUT STARTING IN 4425 02:01:55,007 --> 02:01:56,542 2035 AS SOON AS IT WAS ALLOWED, 4426 02:01:56,542 --> 02:01:57,176 THE MODEL 4427 02:01:57,176 --> 02:01:59,478 IDENTIFIED NEEDED 4428 02:01:59,478 --> 02:02:00,513 TRANSITION ADDITIONS ALONG THREE 4429 02:02:00,513 --> 02:02:01,047 DIFFERENT 4430 02:02:01,047 --> 02:02:01,947 PATHS, WHICH ARE REPRESENTED 4431 02:02:01,947 --> 02:02:04,317 BY THE BLUE ARROWS OVERLAID ON 4432 02:02:04,317 --> 02:02:04,817 THIS MAP. 4433 02:02:04,817 --> 02:02:06,519 THE WIDTH OF THE ARROWS 4434 02:02:06,519 --> 02:02:08,254 ROUGHLY CORRESPONDS TO THE 4435 02:02:08,254 --> 02:02:09,488 RELATIVE MAGNITUDE OF THE NEEDED 4436 02:02:09,488 --> 02:02:10,790 TRANSITION ADDITIONS. 4437 02:02:10,790 --> 02:02:12,258 FIRST TRANSMISSION FROM 4438 02:02:12,258 --> 02:02:14,560 MONTANA TO CENTRAL WASHINGTON IS 4439 02:02:14,560 --> 02:02:17,029 THE SMALLEST AMOUNT OF 4440 02:02:17,029 --> 02:02:17,363 TRANSMISSION 4441 02:02:17,363 --> 02:02:18,998 NEED WE IDENTIFIED AT AN 4442 02:02:18,998 --> 02:02:20,366 AVERAGE OF 56 MEGAWATTS OF 4443 02:02:20,366 --> 02:02:21,834 ADDITIONAL TRANSITION CAPACITY 4444 02:02:21,834 --> 02:02:24,103 FROM 2035 TO 4445 02:02:24,236 --> 02:02:26,338 2045. THIS IS SHOWN BY THE 4446 02:02:26,338 --> 02:02:27,540 THINNEST BLUE ARROW GOING FROM 4447 02:02:27,540 --> 02:02:29,208 EAST TO 4448 02:02:29,208 --> 02:02:30,876 WEST AT THE TOP OF THE MAP. 4449 02:02:30,876 --> 02:02:33,145 THE 4450 02:02:33,145 --> 02:02:33,813 NEXT LARGEST NEED THE IRP 4451 02:02:33,813 --> 02:02:35,448 IDENTIFIED WAS FOR AN AVERAGE 4452 02:02:35,448 --> 02:02:38,250 OF 91 MEGAWATTS 4453 02:02:38,250 --> 02:02:39,218 OF NEW TRANSITION CAPACITY 4454 02:02:39,218 --> 02:02:39,685 CONNECTING OREGON TO 4455 02:02:39,685 --> 02:02:41,754 SEATTLE, WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY 4456 02:02:41,754 --> 02:02:44,256 THE MEDIUM BLUE ARROW GOING 4457 02:02:44,256 --> 02:02:45,091 FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. 4458 02:02:45,091 --> 02:02:47,193 AND LONGEST NEED WE FOUND 4459 02:02:47,193 --> 02:02:49,161 WAS ALONG A PATH CONNECTING 4460 02:02:49,161 --> 02:02:50,129 IDAHO TO OREGON REPRESENTED BY 4461 02:02:50,129 --> 02:02:51,297 THE THICKEST BLUE ARROW GOING 4462 02:02:51,297 --> 02:02:52,498 FROM EAST TO WEST NEAR THE 4463 02:02:52,498 --> 02:02:52,732 BOTTOM 4464 02:02:52,732 --> 02:02:54,100 OF THE MAP. 4465 02:02:54,100 --> 02:02:56,502 THE IRP SHOWED WE NEEDED 4466 02:02:56,502 --> 02:02:59,004 AN AVERAGE OF 230 MEG WATTS OF 4467 02:02:59,004 --> 02:02:59,772 ADDITIONAL TRANSITION 4468 02:02:59,772 --> 02:03:00,706 CAPACITY FROM IDAHO TO OREGON. 4469 02:03:00,706 --> 02:03:02,775 AND AS YOU'LL NOTICE FROM THE 4470 02:03:02,775 --> 02:03:04,176 MAP, THERE'S CURRENTLY 4471 02:03:04,176 --> 02:03:07,480 NO TRANSMISSION ON BPA'S 4472 02:03:07,480 --> 02:03:08,614 SYSTEM CONNECTING IDAHO DIRECTLY 4473 02:03:08,614 --> 02:03:09,115 TO OREGON. 4474 02:03:09,115 --> 02:03:10,850 NOW, I WANT TO ZOOM OUT A 4475 02:03:10,850 --> 02:03:12,385 LITTLE BIT TO PROVIDE SOME 4476 02:03:12,385 --> 02:03:13,386 LARGER 4477 02:03:13,386 --> 02:03:15,688 CONTEXT AROUND 4478 02:03:15,688 --> 02:03:16,055 THESE RESULTS. 4479 02:03:16,055 --> 02:03:16,622 THE ADDITIONAL TRANSMISSION 4480 02:03:16,622 --> 02:03:17,556 NEEDS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE 4481 02:03:17,556 --> 02:03:19,191 ARE JUST WHAT SEATTLE NEEDS 4482 02:03:19,191 --> 02:03:21,861 TO GET GENERATED ELECTRICITY 4483 02:03:21,861 --> 02:03:22,061 BACK 4484 02:03:22,061 --> 02:03:23,062 TO OUR CUSTOMERS. 4485 02:03:23,062 --> 02:03:25,564 OTHER UTILITIES ARE VYING FOR 4486 02:03:25,564 --> 02:03:27,032 THAT SAME TRANSMISSION CAPACITY, 4487 02:03:27,032 --> 02:03:30,403 AS THEY'RE SEEING THEIR LOADS 4488 02:03:30,536 --> 02:03:31,237 GROW LIKE WE ARE. FOR EXAMPLE, 4489 02:03:31,237 --> 02:03:32,705 EAST TO 4490 02:03:32,705 --> 02:03:35,274 WEST TRANSMISSION FROM IDAHO TO 4491 02:03:35,274 --> 02:03:36,308 OREGON, THE PATH OF OUR LARGEST 4492 02:03:36,308 --> 02:03:37,610 NEED, IS GOING TO 4493 02:03:37,610 --> 02:03:38,411 BE PARTICULARLY VALUABLE 4494 02:03:38,411 --> 02:03:42,348 TO PORTLAND AS WELL. 4495 02:03:42,348 --> 02:03:43,015 COMPETING NEEDS FROM OTHERS 4496 02:03:43,015 --> 02:03:44,183 IN THE REGION ADDS FURTHER 4497 02:03:44,183 --> 02:03:45,851 STRAIN TO OUR REGIONAL 4498 02:03:45,851 --> 02:03:47,186 TRANSITION SYSTEM, MAKING IT 4499 02:03:47,186 --> 02:03:47,720 EVEN 4500 02:03:47,720 --> 02:03:49,421 MORE URGENT FOR SEATTLE TO 4501 02:03:49,421 --> 02:03:49,655 PROCURE 4502 02:03:49,655 --> 02:03:51,557 THE TRANSITION THAT WE NEED TO 4503 02:03:51,557 --> 02:03:53,626 RELIABLY SERVE OUR LOAD. 4504 02:03:53,626 --> 02:03:58,731 AND NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 4505 02:03:58,731 --> 02:04:00,432 THIS SLIDE SUMMARIZES THE 4506 02:04:00,432 --> 02:04:02,134 NEW SUPPLY SIDE RESOURCE 4507 02:04:02,134 --> 02:04:04,003 ADDITIONS IDENTIFIED BY THE IRP 4508 02:04:04,003 --> 02:04:05,905 THAT SEATTLE CITY LIGHT WOULD 4509 02:04:05,905 --> 02:04:07,339 REQUIRE IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TO 4510 02:04:07,339 --> 02:04:07,706 MEET OUR 4511 02:04:07,706 --> 02:04:09,141 LOAD RELIABLY FROM 4512 02:04:09,141 --> 02:04:11,110 NOW OUT THROUGH THE NEXT 20 4513 02:04:11,110 --> 02:04:12,878 YEARS, IF WE WERE TO RELY ON 4514 02:04:12,878 --> 02:04:15,080 ONLY NEW 4515 02:04:15,080 --> 02:04:17,483 WIND, SOLAR PV, AND SHORT 4516 02:04:17,483 --> 02:04:19,351 DURATION BATTERY RESOURCES. 4517 02:04:19,351 --> 02:04:21,554 THE TOTALS ARE SPLIT UP WITH 4518 02:04:21,554 --> 02:04:22,454 THE RESOURCE NEEDS WITHIN THE 4519 02:04:22,454 --> 02:04:22,888 FIRST 4520 02:04:22,888 --> 02:04:25,324 TEN YEARS OF THE IRP STUDY IN 4521 02:04:25,324 --> 02:04:27,059 THE LEFT COLUMN, AND 4522 02:04:27,059 --> 02:04:29,595 ADDITIONAL RESOURCE NEEDS IN THE 4523 02:04:29,595 --> 02:04:29,895 SECOND TEN 4524 02:04:29,895 --> 02:04:31,263 YEARS OF THE IRP STUDY IN 4525 02:04:31,263 --> 02:04:32,798 THE SECOND OR 4526 02:04:32,798 --> 02:04:34,099 MIDDLE COLUMN. AND FINALLY THE 4527 02:04:34,099 --> 02:04:34,633 GRAND TOTALS FOR 4528 02:04:34,633 --> 02:04:35,835 EACH RESOURCE TYPE ARE IN 4529 02:04:35,835 --> 02:04:36,569 THE COLUMN ON 4530 02:04:36,569 --> 02:04:37,670 THE RIGHT. THE BOTTOM LINE IN 4531 02:04:37,670 --> 02:04:38,337 THE TABLE 4532 02:04:38,337 --> 02:04:40,506 SHOWS THE TOTAL SUPPLY SIDE 4533 02:04:40,506 --> 02:04:42,475 GENERATION RESOURCES NEEDED 4534 02:04:42,475 --> 02:04:43,843 FOR EACH PERIOD, SO YOU CAN SEE 4535 02:04:43,843 --> 02:04:46,245 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE IN 4536 02:04:46,245 --> 02:04:48,147 THE FIRST COLUMN THE TOTAL 4537 02:04:48,147 --> 02:04:50,149 NEW SUPPLY SIDE RESOURCES NEEDED 4538 02:04:50,149 --> 02:04:52,351 JUST WITHIN THE NEXT TEN 4539 02:04:52,351 --> 02:04:56,322 YEARS COMES TO 1,711 4540 02:04:56,322 --> 02:04:58,290 MEGAWATTS. THESE NUMBERS 4541 02:04:58,290 --> 02:04:59,325 INDICATE THE NEED 4542 02:04:59,325 --> 02:05:02,127 TO ADD MANY 4543 02:05:02,127 --> 02:05:06,999 TIMES MORE WIND FARMS, SOLAR 4544 02:05:06,999 --> 02:05:07,399 PV PROJECTS, AND 4545 02:05:07,399 --> 02:05:08,033 SHORT DURATION BATTERIES TO OUR 4546 02:05:08,033 --> 02:05:08,667 PORTFOLIO IN A SHORTER AMOUNT 4547 02:05:08,667 --> 02:05:10,002 OF TIME THAN WE'VE EVER 4548 02:05:10,002 --> 02:05:10,269 ACHIEVED 4549 02:05:10,269 --> 02:05:10,936 IN THE PAST. 4550 02:05:10,936 --> 02:05:16,742 A SMALLER QUANTITY OF ADVANCED 4551 02:05:16,742 --> 02:05:20,546 RESOURCED WOULD BE ABLE TO 4552 02:05:20,546 --> 02:05:20,913 OFFSET. 4553 02:05:20,913 --> 02:05:23,582 FOR THAT REASON THEY'LL BE 4554 02:05:23,582 --> 02:05:25,518 CRITICAL TO ADD TO OUR PORTFOLIO 4555 02:05:25,518 --> 02:05:26,285 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 4556 02:05:26,285 --> 02:05:27,920 ON THIS SLIDE WE'VE GOT TWO 4557 02:05:27,920 --> 02:05:30,589 MORE TABLES WITH THE SAME TIME 4558 02:05:30,589 --> 02:05:32,358 FRAMESFRAMES EACH COLUMN, AS IN 4559 02:05:32,358 --> 02:05:32,758 THE TABLE 4560 02:05:32,758 --> 02:05:33,692 ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE. 4561 02:05:33,692 --> 02:05:36,462 THE TOP TABLE HERE SHOWS CITY 4562 02:05:36,462 --> 02:05:37,363 LIGHTS NEW 4563 02:05:37,363 --> 02:05:38,497 CUSTOMER SIDE RESOURCE ADDITIONS 4564 02:05:38,497 --> 02:05:38,998 THAT WERE 4565 02:05:38,998 --> 02:05:40,966 IDENTIFIED IN OUR 4566 02:05:40,966 --> 02:05:41,934 PREVIOUS MODELING WORK. 4567 02:05:41,934 --> 02:05:42,868 CUSTOMER SIDE RESOURCES ARE 4568 02:05:42,868 --> 02:05:44,103 THINGS THAT HELP THE 4569 02:05:44,103 --> 02:05:47,072 UTILITY MEET LOAD WITH OUR 4570 02:05:47,072 --> 02:05:48,073 CUSTOMER'S DIRECT PARTICIPATION 4571 02:05:48,073 --> 02:05:49,408 SUCH AS 4572 02:05:49,408 --> 02:05:51,110 CONSERVATION RESOURCES THAT 4573 02:05:51,110 --> 02:05:53,846 HELP CUSTOMERS USE ENERGY MORE 4574 02:05:53,846 --> 02:05:54,713 EFFICIENTLY, DEMAND RESPONSE 4575 02:05:54,713 --> 02:05:57,116 RESOURCES, AND CUSTOMER SOLAR, 4576 02:05:57,116 --> 02:05:58,784 ALSO COMMONLY REFERRED TO 4577 02:05:58,784 --> 02:06:00,052 AS ROOFTOP SOLAR. 4578 02:06:00,052 --> 02:06:03,455 OUR MODEL IDENTIFIED THE NEED 4579 02:06:03,455 --> 02:06:06,492 FOR 107 MEGAWATTS OF 4580 02:06:06,492 --> 02:06:07,660 NEW CUSTOMER SIDE RESOURCES IN 4581 02:06:07,660 --> 02:06:09,695 THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE FIRST 4582 02:06:09,695 --> 02:06:11,363 20- YEAR PERIOD OF IRP 4583 02:06:11,363 --> 02:06:13,365 AND 48 ADDITIONAL MEGAWATTS OF 4584 02:06:13,365 --> 02:06:14,967 CUSTOMER RESOURCES NEEDED IN THE 4585 02:06:14,967 --> 02:06:17,536 SECOND TEN YEARS FOR THE TOTAL 4586 02:06:17,536 --> 02:06:18,103 OF 155 4587 02:06:18,103 --> 02:06:21,073 MEGAWATTS OVER THE NEXT 20 4588 02:06:21,206 --> 02:06:23,509 YEARS. THE BOTTOM TABLE SHOWS 4589 02:06:23,509 --> 02:06:23,809 OUR 4590 02:06:23,809 --> 02:06:27,279 TOTAL RESOURCE NEED COMBINING 4591 02:06:27,279 --> 02:06:29,448 BOTH NEW SUPPLY SIDE RESOURCES 4592 02:06:29,448 --> 02:06:30,916 FROM THE PREVIOUS SLIDE AND 4593 02:06:30,916 --> 02:06:31,183 CUSTOMER 4594 02:06:31,183 --> 02:06:32,952 SIDE RESOURCES FROM THE TABLE 4595 02:06:32,952 --> 02:06:33,252 ABOVE. 4596 02:06:33,252 --> 02:06:35,154 THE GRAND TOTAL RESOURCE 4597 02:06:35,154 --> 02:06:40,559 NEED FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS IS 4598 02:06:40,559 --> 02:06:41,193 1,818 4599 02:06:41,193 --> 02:06:41,527 MEGAWATTS. 4600 02:06:41,527 --> 02:06:43,095 AND IN THE FOLLOWING 4601 02:06:43,095 --> 02:06:45,230 TEN YEARS WE'RE SHOWING A TOTAL 4602 02:06:45,230 --> 02:06:48,834 RESOURCE NEED OF 1,920 MEGAWATTS 4603 02:06:48,834 --> 02:06:49,034 MORE. 4604 02:06:49,034 --> 02:06:50,135 OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS 4605 02:06:50,135 --> 02:06:52,938 THAT MEANS WE'RE SHOWING A 4606 02:06:52,938 --> 02:06:53,138 GRAND 4607 02:06:53,138 --> 02:07:00,145 TOTAL NEED OF 3,738 MEGAWATTS. 4608 02:07:00,145 --> 02:07:01,547 THE BOTTOM LINE SHOWS OUR 4609 02:07:01,547 --> 02:07:02,848 TRANSITION NEEDS IN THE 4610 02:07:02,848 --> 02:07:03,816 SAME PERIODS IN ORDER TO GET 4611 02:07:03,816 --> 02:07:04,049 BOTH 4612 02:07:04,049 --> 02:07:05,551 OUR EXISTING GENERATION 4613 02:07:05,551 --> 02:07:06,986 BACK HOME AS WELL AS GETTING ALL 4614 02:07:06,986 --> 02:07:09,888 THE GENERATION 4615 02:07:09,888 --> 02:07:10,656 FROM THESE NEW RESOURCES BACK TO 4616 02:07:10,656 --> 02:07:10,889 SEATTLE 4617 02:07:10,889 --> 02:07:11,323 TO MEET OUR LOAD. 4618 02:07:11,323 --> 02:07:13,459 IN THE FIRST TEN YEARS WE SHOW 4619 02:07:13,459 --> 02:07:16,128 A TOTAL NEED OF 302 MEGAWATTS 4620 02:07:16,128 --> 02:07:16,996 OF NEW TRANSMISSION. 4621 02:07:16,996 --> 02:07:18,664 AND IN THE SECOND TEN YEARS 4622 02:07:18,664 --> 02:07:22,968 WE SHOW A NEED FOR 203 MEGAWATTS 4623 02:07:22,968 --> 02:07:25,337 OF ADDITIONAL TRANSITION. 4624 02:07:25,337 --> 02:07:27,573 THIS MEANS OUR TOTAL 4625 02:07:27,573 --> 02:07:30,009 TRANSITION NEED OVER THE NEXT 20 4626 02:07:30,009 --> 02:07:30,509 YEARS IS 4627 02:07:30,509 --> 02:07:31,310 505 MEGAWATTS. 4628 02:07:31,310 --> 02:07:34,046 AND NOW I'LL HAND IT BACK TO 4629 02:07:34,046 --> 02:07:35,814 KATEY TO WRAP THIS 4630 02:07:35,814 --> 02:07:36,181 UP. 4631 02:07:36,181 --> 02:07:38,450 >> OKAY, SO I JUST WANTED TO 4632 02:07:38,450 --> 02:07:44,556 GIVE A RECAP OF OUR MAIN 4633 02:07:44,690 --> 02:07:45,290 TAKE-AWAYS ON THIS SLIDE. SO 4634 02:07:45,290 --> 02:07:46,025 INCREASED ELECTRIFICATION 4635 02:07:46,025 --> 02:07:47,860 HAS LED US TO SUSTAINED 4636 02:07:47,860 --> 02:07:49,528 LOAD GROWTH WITH WINTER PEAKS 4637 02:07:49,528 --> 02:07:51,797 INCLUDING WEATHER VOLATILITY 4638 02:07:51,797 --> 02:07:52,798 REQUIRING INCREASED RESOURCE 4639 02:07:52,798 --> 02:07:53,032 NEED 4640 02:07:53,032 --> 02:07:55,968 THAT HAVE WEATHER- DRIVEN 4641 02:07:55,968 --> 02:07:57,436 INTERMITTENCY, WHICH HAS MADE 4642 02:07:57,436 --> 02:07:58,937 US INCREASINGLY INTERESTED 4643 02:07:58,937 --> 02:07:59,972 IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ENERGY 4644 02:07:59,972 --> 02:08:04,076 SOLUTIONS, AND WE'LL BE DOING A 4645 02:08:04,076 --> 02:08:05,210 DEEPER DIVE IN FUTURE IRPs. 4646 02:08:05,210 --> 02:08:07,413 SO NOW OUR 4647 02:08:07,413 --> 02:08:09,615 CALL TO ACTION. AS I SAID, THE 4648 02:08:09,615 --> 02:08:11,316 REQUIREMENT FOR UTILITIES TO 4649 02:08:11,316 --> 02:08:11,583 CREATE 4650 02:08:11,583 --> 02:08:12,851 INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN ALSO 4651 02:08:12,851 --> 02:08:15,988 REQUIRES APPROVAL BY THE 4652 02:08:15,988 --> 02:08:17,356 UTILITY'S GOVERNING BODY. 4653 02:08:17,356 --> 02:08:19,558 IN SEATTLE CITY LIGHTS 4654 02:08:19,558 --> 02:08:21,960 CASE THAT'S CITY COUNCIL. 4655 02:08:21,960 --> 02:08:23,262 WE REQUEST APPROVAL FOR 4656 02:08:23,262 --> 02:08:24,363 THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION 4657 02:08:24,363 --> 02:08:26,832 THAT INCLUDES 4658 02:08:26,832 --> 02:08:28,167 THE 2026 RESOURCE PLAN. THE IRP 4659 02:08:28,167 --> 02:08:29,568 REPORT IS INCLUDED 4660 02:08:29,568 --> 02:08:30,803 IN THE LEGISLATIVE PACT 4661 02:08:30,803 --> 02:08:32,905 AS ATTACHMENT TO THE RESOLUTION. 4662 02:08:32,905 --> 02:08:34,707 AND THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE TO 4663 02:08:34,707 --> 02:08:35,340 TALK TO YOU 4664 02:08:35,340 --> 02:08:38,143 ABOUT TODAY. THANK YOU. 4665 02:08:38,277 --> 02:08:38,844 >> THANK YOU. 4666 02:08:38,844 --> 02:08:42,948 YOU KNOW WHAT, I DON'T WANT YOU 4667 02:08:42,948 --> 02:08:43,816 TO THINK THAT I WAS BORED. 4668 02:08:43,816 --> 02:08:45,250 I WENT THROUGH THE STUFF 4669 02:08:45,250 --> 02:08:46,652 BEFORE, SO I KNOW YOU'RE TRYING 4670 02:08:46,652 --> 02:08:46,819 TO 4671 02:08:46,819 --> 02:08:47,886 GET THROUGH IT. 4672 02:08:47,886 --> 02:08:51,590 IT'S IMPORTANT. 4673 02:08:51,590 --> 02:08:53,425 FIRST, COUNCILMEMBER SAKA HE 4674 02:08:53,425 --> 02:08:56,161 HAD A HARD STOP AT 4:00, BUT 4675 02:08:56,161 --> 02:08:56,428 HE'S 4676 02:08:56,428 --> 02:08:59,398 ON THE PHONE BUT HE CAN HEAR US. 4677 02:08:59,398 --> 02:09:00,866 SO COUNCILMEMBER 4678 02:09:00,866 --> 02:09:01,800 STRZOKKA, COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS, 4679 02:09:01,800 --> 02:09:02,101 ARE THERE 4680 02:09:02,101 --> 02:09:03,602 ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE 4681 02:09:03,602 --> 02:09:05,738 OF OUR GUESTS BEFORE I ASK A 4682 02:09:05,871 --> 02:09:06,138 QUESTION? 4683 02:09:06,138 --> 02:09:06,638 >> 4684 02:09:06,638 --> 02:09:06,972 NO. 4685 02:09:06,972 --> 02:09:07,473 >> THANK YOU. 4686 02:09:07,606 --> 02:09:09,274 >> WAS YOUR HAND UP? 4687 02:09:09,408 --> 02:09:10,576 IT WAS. 4688 02:09:10,576 --> 02:09:11,977 OKAY. 4689 02:09:11,977 --> 02:09:12,244 GO AHEAD. 4690 02:09:12,244 --> 02:09:12,478 SORRY. 4691 02:09:12,478 --> 02:09:13,579 >> I'LL JUST SAY IN THE 4692 02:09:13,579 --> 02:09:15,013 INTEREST OF TIME I'LL HOLD MY 4693 02:09:15,013 --> 02:09:16,315 QUESTIONS FOR NEXT MEETING 4694 02:09:16,315 --> 02:09:17,082 BECAUSE I HAD 4695 02:09:17,082 --> 02:09:19,318 A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH THE 4696 02:09:19,318 --> 02:09:22,554 CITY LIGHT TEAM AHEAD OF THIS 4697 02:09:22,554 --> 02:09:24,156 MEETING TODAY -- A GREAT AMOUNT 4698 02:09:24,156 --> 02:09:24,423 OF 4699 02:09:24,423 --> 02:09:24,890 INFORMATION, 4700 02:09:24,890 --> 02:09:25,691 VERY DENSE INFORMATION HERE. 4701 02:09:25,691 --> 02:09:29,228 AND I JUST APPRECIATE 4702 02:09:29,228 --> 02:09:29,561 EVERYONE'S 4703 02:09:29,561 --> 02:09:29,761 WORK. 4704 02:09:29,761 --> 02:09:31,230 I'LL FOLLOW UP AT 4705 02:09:31,230 --> 02:09:31,897 OUR NEXT MEETING IN THE INTEREST 4706 02:09:31,897 --> 02:09:32,197 OF TIME. 4707 02:09:32,197 --> 02:09:34,466 THANK YOU, 4708 02:09:34,466 --> 02:09:34,733 CHAIR. 4709 02:09:34,733 --> 02:09:35,434 >> THANK YOU. 4710 02:09:35,434 --> 02:09:37,402 I JUST HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION. 4711 02:09:37,402 --> 02:09:38,804 WE WERE TOGGING 4712 02:09:38,804 --> 02:09:39,638 AMONGST OURSELVES AND WE WERE 4713 02:09:39,638 --> 02:09:42,040 TALKING WITH STAFF -- YOU DON'T 4714 02:09:42,040 --> 02:09:42,341 HAVE 4715 02:09:42,341 --> 02:09:45,144 TO GO BACK TO 4716 02:09:45,144 --> 02:09:45,911 IT, BUT ON SLIDE 14, AND THEN 4717 02:09:45,911 --> 02:09:47,713 YOU END ON SLIDE -- 4718 02:09:47,713 --> 02:09:49,214 WELL, ACTUALLY SLIDE 4, BUT 4719 02:09:49,214 --> 02:09:50,048 I'M LOOKING AT 4720 02:09:50,048 --> 02:09:53,252 14 NOW. SO ON THE INCREASED 4721 02:09:53,252 --> 02:09:54,553 ELECTRIFICATION YOU HAVE THAT 4722 02:09:54,553 --> 02:09:56,588 ON BOTH OF THOSE -- IS THAT 4723 02:09:56,588 --> 02:09:57,956 BECAUSE THE FEDS WHEN THEY 4724 02:09:57,956 --> 02:09:58,223 PASSED 4725 02:09:58,223 --> 02:10:00,626 THE GREEN NEW DEAL IN 2019 AND 4726 02:10:00,626 --> 02:10:03,729 THEN WE PASSED IT IN AUGUST OF 4727 02:10:03,729 --> 02:10:03,929 2019. 4728 02:10:03,929 --> 02:10:07,032 IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THAT 4729 02:10:07,032 --> 02:10:08,734 IS INCREASED ELECTRIFICATION. 4730 02:10:08,734 --> 02:10:12,471 SEAR, WE MOVED ALL OF OUR SUITES 4731 02:10:12,471 --> 02:10:13,572 TO -- ALL OF OUR FLEETS, I'M 4732 02:10:13,572 --> 02:10:14,840 SORRY, TO ELECTRICITY, AND 4733 02:10:14,840 --> 02:10:16,608 THEN WE PASSED THE GREEN NEW 4734 02:10:16,608 --> 02:10:16,809 DEAL, 4735 02:10:16,809 --> 02:10:18,343 AS YOU KNOW, IN 2019. 4736 02:10:18,343 --> 02:10:19,344 I THINK IT WAS 4737 02:10:19,344 --> 02:10:20,212 COUNCILMEMBER O'BRIEN AT THE 4738 02:10:20,212 --> 02:10:20,612 TIME WE 4739 02:10:20,612 --> 02:10:22,781 WERE FOLLOWING THE GREEN NEW 4740 02:10:22,781 --> 02:10:23,382 DEAL, 4741 02:10:23,382 --> 02:10:24,416 AOC 2019. 4742 02:10:24,416 --> 02:10:28,654 AND THEN WE DID IT IN AUGUST 4743 02:10:28,654 --> 02:10:29,087 2019. 4744 02:10:29,087 --> 02:10:31,557 SO IS THAT WHY WE HAVE ALL THIS 4745 02:10:31,557 --> 02:10:35,527 INCREASE IN THE -- THE 4746 02:10:35,527 --> 02:10:36,094 INCREASED ELECTRIFICATION? 4747 02:10:36,228 --> 02:10:37,129 >> THE ELECTRIFICATION IS 4748 02:10:37,129 --> 02:10:38,664 DRIVEN BY A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT 4749 02:10:38,664 --> 02:10:38,897 THINGS. 4750 02:10:38,897 --> 02:10:40,199 SO WE ARE SEEING 4751 02:10:40,199 --> 02:10:41,333 GENERAL GROWTH IN PASSENGER 4752 02:10:41,333 --> 02:10:42,568 VEHICLES THAT 4753 02:10:42,568 --> 02:10:44,236 ARE BEING 4754 02:10:44,236 --> 02:10:44,570 ELECTRIFIED. 4755 02:10:44,570 --> 02:10:45,204 >> OH, OKAY. 4756 02:10:45,337 --> 02:10:45,971 >> I THINK WASHINGTON 4757 02:10:45,971 --> 02:10:47,439 IN PARTICULAR HAS A GREAT 4758 02:10:47,439 --> 02:10:47,706 INDUSTRY 4759 02:10:47,706 --> 02:10:48,473 FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES 4760 02:10:48,473 --> 02:10:50,342 BECAUSE OUR POWER COSTS ARE SO 4761 02:10:50,342 --> 02:10:50,542 LOW, 4762 02:10:50,542 --> 02:10:52,144 AND OUR GAS PRICES TEND TO 4763 02:10:52,144 --> 02:10:53,412 BE HIGH. IT MAKES ECONOMIC SENSE 4764 02:10:53,412 --> 02:10:55,380 FOR OUR 4765 02:10:55,514 --> 02:11:01,019 CUSTOMERS. ALSO, IT 4766 02:11:01,019 --> 02:11:02,020 INCLUDES ELECTRIFICATION RELATED 4767 02:11:02,020 --> 02:11:02,254 TO 4768 02:11:02,254 --> 02:11:03,855 FLEETS, TO TRANSIT, TO THE 4769 02:11:03,855 --> 02:11:04,890 PORT AS WELL AS BUILDING 4770 02:11:04,890 --> 02:11:05,157 EMISSION 4771 02:11:05,157 --> 02:11:05,657 STANDARDS FOR SEATTLE. 4772 02:11:05,657 --> 02:11:07,492 SO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT 4773 02:11:07,492 --> 02:11:09,094 THINGS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO 4774 02:11:09,094 --> 02:11:10,062 THE INCREASED 4775 02:11:10,062 --> 02:11:10,662 ELECTRIFICATION. 4776 02:11:10,662 --> 02:11:10,929 >> OKAY. 4777 02:11:10,929 --> 02:11:13,098 AND THEN I 4778 02:11:13,098 --> 02:11:13,765 HAD ONE, AND YOU'RE GOING TO 4779 02:11:13,765 --> 02:11:15,367 PROBABLY 4780 02:11:15,367 --> 02:11:16,001 THINK THIS IS A DUMB QUESTION, 4781 02:11:16,001 --> 02:11:16,468 BUT IT 4782 02:11:16,468 --> 02:11:17,402 WAS DRIVING ME CRAZY. 4783 02:11:17,402 --> 02:11:19,071 AND I ACTUALLY LIKE MAPS. 4784 02:11:19,071 --> 02:11:20,939 ON PAGE 8 WHEN YOU LISTED OUT 4785 02:11:20,939 --> 02:11:22,908 ALL THE BPA SERVICE AREA 4786 02:11:22,908 --> 02:11:25,010 AND WHERE THE FEDERAL DAMS 4787 02:11:25,010 --> 02:11:27,412 WERE, FIRST OF ALL, I DIDN'T SEE 4788 02:11:27,412 --> 02:11:30,249 31, SO I HAD TO 4789 02:11:30,249 --> 02:11:30,983 COUNT THEM ON MY OWN AND I 4790 02:11:30,983 --> 02:11:32,484 REALIZED THEY WROTE 4791 02:11:32,484 --> 02:11:33,352 THEM IN THERE. 4792 02:11:33,352 --> 02:11:34,886 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT SEATTLE 4793 02:11:34,886 --> 02:11:37,055 CITY LIGHT RESOURCE, ARE 4794 02:11:37,055 --> 02:11:38,624 YOU INCLUDING DAMS AND WHAT 4795 02:11:38,624 --> 02:11:38,824 ELSE? 4796 02:11:38,824 --> 02:11:40,859 BECAUSE I'M LOOKING, LIKE, 4797 02:11:40,859 --> 02:11:41,960 WHAT IS LUCKY PEAK? 4798 02:11:41,960 --> 02:11:43,462 IS THAT WIND, WATER, SOLAR? 4799 02:11:43,462 --> 02:11:44,896 SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 4800 02:11:45,030 --> 02:11:47,666 >> YEAH, SO THIS INCLUDES BOTH 4801 02:11:47,666 --> 02:11:48,900 OUR OWNED RESOURCES 4802 02:11:48,900 --> 02:11:50,569 AND RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE A 4803 02:11:50,569 --> 02:11:51,103 POWER PURCHASE 4804 02:11:51,103 --> 02:11:52,704 AGREEMENT WITH. SO WE HAVE A 4805 02:11:52,704 --> 02:11:53,238 CONTRACT TO 4806 02:11:53,238 --> 02:11:53,538 GET WIND. 4807 02:11:53,538 --> 02:11:58,243 SO LUCKY PEAK, FOR EXAMPLE, IS 4808 02:11:58,243 --> 02:11:59,845 A HYDRO DAM, SO WE HAVE A 4809 02:11:59,845 --> 02:12:01,346 CONTRACT WITH THEM, AND THEN WE 4810 02:12:01,346 --> 02:12:02,481 ALSO HAVE -- I THINK ON THE 4811 02:12:02,481 --> 02:12:02,748 PREVIOUS 4812 02:12:02,748 --> 02:12:04,549 SLIDE, ON SLIDE 7, IT'S COLOR 4813 02:12:04,549 --> 02:12:05,884 CODED TO SHOW WHAT TYPE 4814 02:12:05,884 --> 02:12:07,953 OF RESOURCE ALL OF OUR 4815 02:12:07,953 --> 02:12:08,520 OWNED CONTRACTS 4816 02:12:08,520 --> 02:12:08,854 ARE. 4817 02:12:08,854 --> 02:12:11,957 >> OH, I SEE, LUCKY PEAK'S ON 4818 02:12:11,957 --> 02:12:12,824 THERE, 4819 02:12:12,824 --> 02:12:14,393 TOO. 4820 02:12:14,526 --> 02:12:14,926 >> YES. 4821 02:12:14,926 --> 02:12:15,494 >> BUT IT'S NOT OUR DAM. 4822 02:12:15,627 --> 02:12:16,995 >> NO, IT'S NOT OURS. 4823 02:12:16,995 --> 02:12:20,465 IT'S OWNED BY A 4824 02:12:20,465 --> 02:12:20,832 CONTRACTOR. 4825 02:12:20,832 --> 02:12:22,901 >> OKAY, SO WE HAVE THE DAMS WE 4826 02:12:22,901 --> 02:12:24,202 HAVE OWN AND THE DAMS 4827 02:12:24,202 --> 02:12:26,571 WE CONTRACT WITH AND THOSE ARE 4828 02:12:26,571 --> 02:12:26,939 THE RESOURCES. 4829 02:12:26,939 --> 02:12:28,173 OKAY, BECAUSE I WAS LIKE 4830 02:12:28,173 --> 02:12:29,675 WHERE THE HELL IS LUCKY PEAK? 4831 02:12:29,675 --> 02:12:30,642 OKAY, THAT WAS BUGGING ME. 4832 02:12:30,642 --> 02:12:33,545 I KNOW, IT WAS A NERDY THING. 4833 02:12:33,545 --> 02:12:33,945 OKAY, SO IS THERE 4834 02:12:33,945 --> 02:12:35,347 ANYTHING ELSE YOU GUYS WANT TO 4835 02:12:35,347 --> 02:12:35,647 ADD BEFORE 4836 02:12:35,647 --> 02:12:37,115 WE WRAP UP 4837 02:12:37,115 --> 02:12:37,616 HERE? 4838 02:12:37,616 --> 02:12:38,250 >> I DON'T THINK SO. 4839 02:12:38,383 --> 02:12:40,886 >> THINK YOU GOT IT ALL? 4840 02:12:40,886 --> 02:12:44,923 WE WILL BE -- WHAT DOES MY NOTE 4841 02:12:45,057 --> 02:12:46,725 SAY? PAUL, WHEN ARE WE BACK 4842 02:12:46,725 --> 02:12:48,660 IN COMMITTEE 4843 02:12:48,660 --> 02:12:49,828 ON THIS? JUNE -- JUNE 17th? 4844 02:12:49,828 --> 02:12:50,829 SO ARE YOU GOING TO 4845 02:12:50,829 --> 02:12:53,098 HAVE THE SAME POWERPOINT ON JUNE 4846 02:12:53,098 --> 02:12:53,298 17th? 4847 02:12:53,432 --> 02:12:53,699 >> 4848 02:12:53,699 --> 02:12:54,399 SURE. 4849 02:12:54,399 --> 02:12:55,901 >> WELL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO. 4850 02:12:55,901 --> 02:12:57,536 I'M JUST SAYING IF YOU THINK 4851 02:12:57,536 --> 02:12:58,170 YOU 4852 02:12:58,170 --> 02:12:59,204 NEED TO. I'M JUST ASKING. 4853 02:12:59,338 --> 02:13:00,205 >> I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO 4854 02:13:00,205 --> 02:13:01,640 GO BACK THROUGH THE 4855 02:13:01,640 --> 02:13:03,442 POWERPOINT AGAIN. 4856 02:13:03,442 --> 02:13:04,476 WE'LL BRING IT SO IF THERE ARE 4857 02:13:04,476 --> 02:13:09,881 QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE 4858 02:13:10,015 --> 02:13:10,682 POWERPLANT, WE POWERPOINT WE CAN 4859 02:13:10,682 --> 02:13:11,249 GO BACK TO 4860 02:13:11,249 --> 02:13:11,683 THE SLIDES. 4861 02:13:11,683 --> 02:13:13,352 WE DON'T HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL 4862 02:13:13,352 --> 02:13:14,252 INFORMATION TO 4863 02:13:14,252 --> 02:13:14,519 PRESENT. 4864 02:13:14,519 --> 02:13:15,487 >> WHY ARE YOU REPORTING BACK 4865 02:13:15,487 --> 02:13:16,488 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE? 4866 02:13:16,488 --> 02:13:19,324 I KNOW UNDER STATE LAW YOU HAVE 4867 02:13:19,458 --> 02:13:21,626 TO DO THIS. WHY DOC? 4868 02:13:21,626 --> 02:13:23,495 IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE 4869 02:13:23,495 --> 02:13:24,129 ANSWER, THAT'S 4870 02:13:24,129 --> 02:13:24,596 OKAY. 4871 02:13:24,596 --> 02:13:26,164 >> I DON'T KNOW WHY. 4872 02:13:26,298 --> 02:13:27,499 >> BECAUSE WE DON'T 4873 02:13:27,499 --> 02:13:29,668 HAVE ENERGY. WE HAVE A THE 4874 02:13:29,668 --> 02:13:30,769 DEPARTMENT OF 4875 02:13:30,769 --> 02:13:31,269 ECOLOGY. 4876 02:13:31,269 --> 02:13:32,904 AND I THINK THEY TUCKED 4877 02:13:32,904 --> 02:13:38,677 THIS TYPE OF STUFF UNDER 4878 02:13:38,677 --> 02:13:38,910 D.O.C. 4879 02:13:38,910 --> 02:13:40,479 . I KNOW WHEN WE WERE WORKING ON 4880 02:13:40,479 --> 02:13:43,548 WIND PROJECTS WE WERE LIKE WHY 4881 02:13:43,548 --> 02:13:44,516 IS THAT THERE. 4882 02:13:44,516 --> 02:13:45,751 I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THEIR 4883 02:13:45,751 --> 02:13:47,252 BASTION OF EXPERTISE OR 4884 02:13:47,252 --> 02:13:47,519 NOT. 4885 02:13:47,519 --> 02:13:49,020 >> FOR THE DIFFERENT 4886 02:13:49,020 --> 02:13:49,688 REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS WE HAVE 4887 02:13:49,688 --> 02:13:49,921 SOME 4888 02:13:49,921 --> 02:13:51,156 OF THEM DO GO TO THE DEPARTMENT 4889 02:13:51,156 --> 02:13:52,657 OF ECOLOGY AND SOME GO TO THE 4890 02:13:52,657 --> 02:13:53,725 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. 4891 02:13:53,725 --> 02:13:55,627 THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF WHY 4892 02:13:55,627 --> 02:13:56,661 THAT IS, I'M NOT SURE. 4893 02:13:56,795 --> 02:13:57,229 >> OKAY. 4894 02:13:57,229 --> 02:14:00,899 DO YOU KNOW WHO'S HEAD OF 4895 02:14:00,899 --> 02:14:01,299 D.O.C. 4896 02:14:01,299 --> 02:14:01,767 NOW? 4897 02:14:01,900 --> 02:14:05,237 >> THERE'S AN INTERIM DIRECTOR, 4898 02:14:05,237 --> 02:14:05,504 SARAH. 4899 02:14:05,637 --> 02:14:07,139 >> THANK YOU GUYS. 4900 02:14:07,139 --> 02:14:08,206 THANK YOU SO 4901 02:14:08,206 --> 02:14:09,374 MUCH. THANK YOU FOR THE 4902 02:14:09,374 --> 02:14:11,543 POWERPOINT, THE SUMMARY AND 4903 02:14:11,543 --> 02:14:11,777 FISCAL 4904 02:14:11,777 --> 02:14:12,344 NOTE, 4905 02:14:12,344 --> 02:14:13,945 WHAT ELSE? THE RESOLUTION, THE 4906 02:14:13,945 --> 02:14:14,279 OTHER 4907 02:14:14,279 --> 02:14:14,479 BIG 4908 02:14:14,479 --> 02:14:14,713 PACKET. 4909 02:14:14,713 --> 02:14:16,047 >> I BELIEVE SOME 4910 02:14:16,047 --> 02:14:17,449 COUNCILMEMBERS MAY BE SUBMITTING 4911 02:14:17,449 --> 02:14:18,817 WRITTEN QUESTIONS WE'LL BE 4912 02:14:18,817 --> 02:14:19,451 FORWARDING 4913 02:14:19,451 --> 02:14:19,618 TO 4914 02:14:19,618 --> 02:14:19,951 YOU. 4915 02:14:20,085 --> 02:14:23,288 >> OKAY. SO THIS WILL BE BACK IN 4916 02:14:23,422 --> 02:14:23,822 COMMITTEE -- 4917 02:14:23,822 --> 02:14:24,289 >> ON THE 17th. 4918 02:14:24,423 --> 02:14:25,857 >> ON JUNE 17th AND FROM 4919 02:14:25,857 --> 02:14:27,159 THERE IT'LL GO TO FULL COUNCIL 4920 02:14:27,159 --> 02:14:27,359 IN 4921 02:14:27,359 --> 02:14:30,929 JULY, CORRECT? 4922 02:14:30,929 --> 02:14:31,696 ALL 4923 02:14:31,696 --> 02:14:32,531 RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 4924 02:14:32,531 --> 02:14:37,602 ALL RIGHT, SO WITH 4925 02:14:37,602 --> 02:14:38,603 THAT, COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS AND 4926 02:14:38,603 --> 02:14:40,572 COUNCILMEMBER SAKA, 4927 02:14:40,572 --> 02:14:41,673 ANYTHING GOOD FOR THE ORDER 4928 02:14:41,673 --> 02:14:41,873 HERE? 4929 02:14:41,873 --> 02:14:43,942 CAN WE WRAP UP TODAY'S AGENDA? 4930 02:14:43,942 --> 02:14:44,276 YOU 4931 02:14:44,276 --> 02:14:45,143 GOOD? 4932 02:14:45,143 --> 02:14:47,145 >> YEAH, GREAT SPEECH 4933 02:14:47,145 --> 02:14:47,412 EARLIER. 4934 02:14:47,412 --> 02:14:47,779 >> THANK YOU. 4935 02:14:47,913 --> 02:14:50,015 >> GOOD ON 4936 02:14:50,015 --> 02:14:52,451 MY END. 4937 02:14:52,451 --> 02:14:53,885 >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 4938 02:14:54,019 --> 02:14:54,986 SAKA. I HAVE A GREAT STAFF AND 4939 02:14:54,986 --> 02:14:56,354 I'VE BEEN ON THEM AND THEY 4940 02:14:56,354 --> 02:14:56,621 NEVER 4941 02:14:56,621 --> 02:14:58,190 WERE PAYING ATTENTION TO A.I. 4942 02:14:58,190 --> 02:14:58,490 UNTIL 4943 02:14:58,490 --> 02:14:58,657 I 4944 02:14:58,657 --> 02:15:00,492 DID. AND EVERY DAY I SENT 4945 02:15:00,492 --> 02:15:02,594 THEM DID YOU READ 4946 02:15:02,594 --> 02:15:03,328 THIS, DID YOU READ THIS ARTICLE, 4947 02:15:03,328 --> 02:15:06,531 DID YOU GO TO 4948 02:15:06,531 --> 02:15:07,933 POSSIBLE DOUBT CAST, SO 4949 02:15:07,933 --> 02:15:08,867 THEY'RE ANNOYED WITH ME. 4950 02:15:08,867 --> 02:15:10,635 ANYWAY, IT WAS A CULMINATION 4951 02:15:10,635 --> 02:15:12,237 OF ALL OF 4952 02:15:12,237 --> 02:15:13,538 THAT. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO 4953 02:15:13,538 --> 02:15:13,772 MOVE 4954 02:15:13,772 --> 02:15:14,072 TO ADJOURN. 4955 02:15:14,072 --> 02:15:16,108 WE REACHED TO END OF TODAY'S 4956 02:15:16,241 --> 02:15:18,310 AGENDA. THERE ARE MOW MORE 4957 02:15:18,310 --> 02:15:18,577 COMMENTS 4958 02:15:18,577 --> 02:15:20,112 FROM MY