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Put Data Centers Elsewhere by Scott Levy Lewiston Tribune, July 20, 2025

To Donald Trump shooting across my bow: "Stopping Radical Environmentalism to generate power for the Columbia River Basin" (Presidential Memorandum, June 12, 2025).

So what you are saying, sir, is that we should allow southern resident orcas to starve into "bright extinction," allow the extinction of Idaho's salmon and steelhead (once among the largest runs in the world), collapse an ecosystem, starve Idaho's Salmon River forests of marine nutrients and thereby lose natural carbon sequestration equivalent of about 90 million metric tons per year, so data centers can locate in the Pacific Northwest.

I say, "Let them locate data centers elsewhere. Stupid is what stupid does."