Kana Lee showed up Saturday morning to Barnes Park in Monterey Park with her partner and two small children to learn more about plans for a sprawling data center that would almost double the energy usage of the city’s 20,737 households.
Lee said she was “impressed” to see more than 100 residents from a community that isn’t very politically active turn out to express concerns about the project. “It warms my heart to see my neighbors,” she said.
Lee lives less than a mile away from where the proposed project will be. She said she’s concerned about the data center’s massive use of energy making climate change worse and the effects it could have on people’s physical and mental health, especially as she’s raising a three and five year old in the area.She also questioned why the city and applicant did not share widespread information about a project of this magnitude. The project has been in the works for more than a year, but she said she only learned about it last month…