With just under 50 data centers already in Kentucky and more in development.

The health and environmental impacts of these centers is a hot topic in the Commonwealth and really across the nation.

After a from the community, the Christina Lee Brown Environment Institute at the University of Louisville created data centers one on one, a seven week webinar taking a deep dive into the ways data centers could impact communities in Kentucky.

We had received a request for several of our several members of our research team to come to Oldham County last May to share about potential health impacts of data centers.

And that really was the kickoff to a lot of people reaching out and saying, tell me more, tell me more.

What should we expect?

We have a data center proposal in our community.

We have a data center proposal in our community.

We have a data center coming to our community.

We started with what is a data center, because we want to make sure everybody is on the same page of what we're talking about, and what we're talking about are the large data centers, the hyperscale, the AI data centers.

Our first topic after that was health.

Then we looked at communities, data centers and communities, then environment data centers and the environment.

We've looked at the economics of data centers.

Most recently, we looked at data centers and policy.

And this coming week, we're going to talk about the energy costs of data centers.

In the first webinar, there were so many questions we could not get to all of the questions.

People want to know specifics for their areas.

People want resources.

They want to hear examples of success stories and communities that have successfully fought against data centers or have successfully partnered, with data centers in their communities.

They they don't only want to know the impacts, of what happens if this comes.

They want to know this is here.

What can we do about it?

How can we make this, as beneficial as it can be to communities?

I received some emails where people say questions and concerns of what my community needs investment, my.

And this is an opportunity for investment in my community.

What do you suggest instead of this.

And it's not my or it is not the goal of the planners of this to, suggest support for or support against.

It's to help people understand the potential health impacts and for people to use that to inform their decision making.

The Enviro Institute plans to publish a collection of the materials and data from the Data Center 101 webinar that will be available online, and this topic will be our conversation Monday night on Kentucky tonight.