To the editor: Visitor contributor Dean Florez’s proposed neighborhood profit commonplace wants a funding backstop (“Data centers consume like cities. They should contribute like cities as well,” Oct. 13).
An obligation can survive a property sale on paper and nonetheless change into nugatory if the corporate accountable goes broke. Earlier than development, builders ought to present monetary ensures for promised public enhancements and their long-term repairs by means of pay as you go funds, efficiency bonds or related safeguards.
Take into account a water-reuse system or a cooling-center battery. Who pays for upkeep, repairs and alternative if the information middle closes? Native companies ought to have secured funding and a transparent working plan earlier than accepting both as a public profit.
As a Temecula resident, I need synthetic intelligence funding to strengthen our communities with out leaving households with one other invoice. California ought to make monetary safety a part of the cut price earlier than residents commit land, water and energy.
The servers might transfer or shut down. The neighbors will nonetheless be right here.
Rohan Sharma, Temecula
This author is the creator of “AI and the Boardroom: Insights into Governance, Technique, and the Accountable Adoption of AI.”
