As a proposed artificial intelligence data center continues to worry residents who live nearby, the developer is hosting a second neighborhood meeting around the project.  

Raeden, a California-based company, announced plans roughly a month ago to build the data center roughly a month ago in an old Intel microchip manufacturing facility off Garden of the Gods Road.  

The company is hosting a second meeting at the Marriott at 5580 Tech Center Drive. It will last from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., according to a city webpage.

The proposed AI data center has sparked protest from residents, many of whom live within 1,000 feet of the large structure at 1565 High Tech Way. Along Chesham Circle in the Chelsea Glen neighborhood, signs proclaiming “no data center” dot front lawns.

Many in the area and throughout the city are worried by the power requirements of the data center, its water use and the noise a series of industrial chillers –– needed to cool the 200,000 gallons of water circulating through a closed loop cooling system –– will generate.

They remember when a cryptocurrency mine operated out of the building, generating what they believed to be unacceptable noise levels. Some improvements were made but the company, 3G Ventures, went out of business in 2020, The Gazette previously reported.

Raeden conducted a noise impact study and said the noise that it would produce would fall within the city’s limits. Residents remain unconvinced.

The Colorado Springs City Council is unable to comment on the data center as it is “quasi-judicial,” staff said.