Dear Mr. Napier, let's talk about your project

Lanham Napier chairs Borderplex Digital Assets, which proposes to build a huge data center campus in Santa Teresa .

Dear Lanham:

I am glad you favor “putting communities first,” that the Jupiter Project is “deeply personal to me. … I’ve dreamed of improving lives,” and that you say you aspire to doing this “the right way.”

But you are an intelligent, thoughtful fellow. You know that climate craziness threatens a draconian future for our children and is already wreaking havoc. You know that our county is within one of the four areas on Earth now suffering from a “Mega-drought.” You know that such a data center not only can threaten water supplies, but demands huge amounts of power comparable to a modest city.

Particularly here, it should be a rebuttable presumption that any big new ins