February 8th, 2026

Deep Green claims to be a new kind of data center. They have to make a point of setting themselves apart from other data centers because these centers have already caused so much harm in other communities in the form of wasting precious natural resources, raising local utility costs and negatively impacting community health.

We are dealing with something here which is providing very little real world examples of working well within a community and a whole lotta examples of it working very badly, for example all the data centers in the South who are at the point where they need even more energy so they’ve expanded to coal mining and other dirty energy methods. How do we know Deep Green won’t turn to similar methods if they ever need more energy than anticipated? 

Just because Deep Green is presenting a closed loop system we’re just supposed to look the other way? We’re just supposed to make our city the guinea pig for this new system and trust a company with absolutely no stake in our community aside from profit margins? If this new system truly has zero drawbacks as their website suggests, why aren’t they implementing it in their own cities, where their own children play. Why are they making Lansing the experiment? And why is Lansing considering letting them?