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After spending years as one of the nation’s biggest data center supporters, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has issued a hollow executive order calling for guardrails that would do far too little to protect Louisianans from the impacts of the very centers he has been courting.
In response, Sierra Club issued the following statements:
“Gov. Landry wants to have his cake and eat it too, but it’s totally out of touch to welcome this massive data center boom and expect concerned Louisianans to go along with it,” said Angelle Bradford Rosenberg, Chair of the Sierra Club Delta Chapter. “We know what we stand to lose: reliable and safe water and affordable bills. Landry’s rose-colored glasses for wealthy tech companies forsake the kind of scrupulous decision-making that our people deserve. Secretive nondisclosure agreements abound in his administration. Meanwhile, neighbors to some of Landry’s favorite data centers contend with futures where promised jobs never materialize, loud humming keeps them awake at night, pollution makes them sick, water runs out, bills skyrocket, and farmland disappears. There is a path to reduce many of these terrible impacts, but Landry is miles away from it.”
