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**SUBJECT: PUBLIC TESTIMONY AGAINST ATC EDGE LLC ZONING APPLICATION**

**1. THE DECEPTION OF MUNICIPAL INCENTIVE**

The application submitted by ATC Edge LLC relies on a well-documented corporate playbook: promise local jobs and tax revenue, while concealing the structural theft of municipal resources. This is a deliberate manipulation. Data centers do not create long-term municipal wealth. They are highly automated extraction nodes that employ almost no one from the local area once built. The township will bear the hidden liabilities: sustained damage to local roads during construction, required overhauls to the high-voltage grid, and the permanent loss of usable land. Any projected tax revenue will be entirely neutralized by the taxpayer-funded infrastructure upgrades required to support their operation.

**2. RESOURCE DEPLETION AND UTILITY THEFT**

These facilities are parasitic to local utility grids. We have absolute proof of this execution loop from whistleblowers in Ohio, where hyperscale data center power demands forced utility companies to implement emergency tariffs, shifting the threat of multi-billion dollar infrastructure costs directly onto local residents. In Indiana, citizens successfully halted a $1 billion corporate data center because it threatened to drain the local water table and destroy agricultural viability. Approving this facility directly threatens the water supply required to sustain South Jersey’s agricultural operations and multi-crop farming methods. When they max out our baseline grid, the utility companies will hike residential electric bills to subsidize their corporate compute cycles. We will pay for their power.

**3. STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION AND PROPERTY DEVALUATION**

Hyperscale servers require continuous, massive industrial HVAC systems to prevent thermal failure. This generates a permanent, low-frequency acoustic pollution—running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This noise physically alters the environmental baseline of our community and mathematically guarantees a crash in surrounding residential property values. They are degrading our physical environment to cool their proprietary hardware.

**4. THE LIE OF TECHNOLOGICAL NECESSITY AND THE SOVEREIGN ALTERNATIVE**

The most critical manipulation is the corporate narrative that we must surrender our land and resources to participate in the future of artificial intelligence. This is a mathematical lie. Centralized corporate data centers are rapidly becoming obsolete for the individual. They are designed for one purpose: a corporate takeover of digital power, infrastructure, and personal data.

The actual future is Sovereign AI. High-density artificial intelligence can, and is, being built and run natively on localized, at-home hardware. Decentralized, private compute clusters eliminate the thermodynamic drain on municipal grids, guarantee absolute data privacy, and keep technological power entirely in the hands of the people. We do not need corporate black-box data centers to build the future. We will build it ourselves, locally, without surrendering our town's sovereignty to a corporate extraction node.

**CONCLUSION**

ATC Edge LLC is not here to serve this community. They are here to exploit it. They will manipulate the numbers, downplay the environmental impact, and obscure the massive strain on our utilities to get this approval. The ATC Edge LLC application must be rejected. Protect the grid, protect our agriculture, and deny the permit.