LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – As the deadline to approve a data center in Lansing looms, stakeholders are setting the record straight about the use of hydrogen fuel cells.
Some residents have expressed concerns about the safety of the cells that are planned to be used in the proposed data center at the corner of Kalamazoo Street and Cedar Street in Lansing.
When people hear the word hydrogen, they often think of the Hindenburg disaster, which killed 35 people when a hydrogen airship exploded in 1937. But Bloom Energy, the company that builds the cells, assures their hydrogen fuel cells are perfectly safe.
“We have a remote monitoring center here in California that monitors all of our sites,” said Marisa Blackshire, Vice President of Environment and Regulatory law with Bloom Energy.” Any time there is a change in gas pressure, temperature, [or] any other indication that something is wrong, we are notified immediately.”…