Elsinore Heights data center

Speaking for the project team, she said no data center has been proposed — the potential use was disclosed early as a secondary option so it can be studied in the EIR.

Cited health, water, and grid impacts and asked the council to reject the data center outright.

Submitted a Change.org petition against the data center and raised concerns about water use and the bald eagle habitat at Coyote Cove.

A local business owner who maintains a creek feeding the lake warned that a data center's water consumption would betray years of lake restoration investment.

Detailed water, energy, noise, light, and heat-island impacts and asked the city to amend zoning to prohibit data centers.

A retiree worried about truck traffic, water rates, blackouts, and power poles — and asked how residents will be notified as the project advances.

A Lake Elsinore native argued the 248,000-square-foot data center would burden utilities, water, and future jobs, and asked the council to reject option two.

Warned about water consumption and destruction, generator pollution, noise, and home value losses near data centers.

Compared the data center's draw to 250,000 homes on the electric grid and warned about shell-company contracts and unkept job promises.

A teacher and 25-year resident said a data center would undo the city's water quality investments and asked for a moratorium and permanent ban.

Warned that residents' solar batteries could be tapped for data centers and that infrastructure costs get passed to consumers; also floated making the lake a historic landmark.

A high school student said she's terrified of growing up without clean drinking water and urged the council to think of future generations.

A Wildomar native praised the city's downtown and lake progress and asked whether the council values community building or short-term profit.

Listed six concerns: water, electricity rates passed to residents, traffic, noise, a six-mile 'heat dome,' and the risk of data centers multiplying.