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We must halt the expansion of data centers until we have the necessary rules in place to prevent big data from impacting our communities, farms, and utility customers. Data centers require an enormous amount of land, water, and electricity, and cause noise and stormwater pollution. Data centers are a new type of industrial facility and should be regulated as such and built far from communities and prime agricultural lands.
The expansion of data centers across our entire region has significantly increased the cost of electricity for residents. Our utility grid operators estimate that data centers across our region will require 30 million megawatts of peak power by 2030, enough to power 20 million households. Maryland only has 2.4 million households. We must reign in data centers.
Beyond data centers, we must expand regional generation capacity by permitting more and cleaner energy facilities.
As Maryland focuses efforts to build more affordable housing in walkable communities near transit hubs, we must continue to upgrade transit options to connect these communities with nearby jobs and education. Public transportation efforts in more rural areas, like southern Anne Arundel County, should focus on providing low-cost call-and-ride services to those who cannot drive themselves, especially our seniors and our disabled.
We must prioritize funding for our youngest, our most vulnerable, and for our public safety providers.
Maryland's future depends on how we educate our next generation today. That's why my number one funding priority will always be our public schools.
All great societies provide for the most vulnerable, such as the sick, the elderly and the disabled. We must do the same.
Finally, a government's top priority must always be the safety of its residents and our state budget must reflect that.
All of us are the children of immigrants. Yet, all of us have been given the opportunity to build a life in Maryland and to pass along a better opportunity to our children. Our modern day immigrant community deserves the same opportunity. And the US Constitution guarantees all Marylanders the same due process and equal protection. That's why I will always demand law enforcement follow the US Constitution, and I will always vote to keep ICE out of our schools, libraries, and other safe spaces.
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Large data centers are an eye sore and a particularly economically inefficient use of land near people. If there is economic demand for the services that data centers provide, then we must make space for them, but they should be pushed to the least valuable land, as far away from normal life as possible. Given Maryland is a quite densely populated state, I see no reason data centers shouldn't be built more in empty regions along the Mississippi or similar, not in Maryland.
Electricity costs are going up because about a year ago, Trump changed how the permitting process for solar installations would function across the country. As with data centers, Maryland is not the optimal place to use lots of land that doesn't engage citizens directly. Like data, electricity can be transported easily. I think we should build a massive solar installation in the deserts of the south west and use HVDC lines to supply different parts of the country, but that's not an MD solution.
Yes. Car focused transportation doesn't scale well and is overly dangerous, especially for children. The best way to solve the housing crisis and decrease the death rate for children, is to build new train lines and build new towns along them that can make use of those lines. The only big way to decrease the rate of automobile crashes is to decrease the number of miles driven
On the spending side, I would fight for better funding towards our public transit infrastructure and development funds to build new towns with housing and commercial use. The other two things I would fight for principally are elements of tax reform. I ant to decrease taxes that are inefficient and cause waste in our economy and increase efficient taxes, like those on pollution and land speculation.
The legal status of a no citizen is a Federal issue, but I believe strongly that should ICE break laws on Maryland soil, we should arrest and prosecute them the to the highest extent possible. Certainly, we should not assist ICE in any of their targeting. Should I be seeking office at the federal level, we'd be having different discussion concerning immigration reform.
