Data Centers in Aurora Colorado The Public Was Not Warned or Educated About Consequences

Location of data-center Near Intersection of I-70 & Toll Road E-470 corridor Exact Location 1160 N Gun Club Rd, Aurora, Colorado 80018 Planned 160 MW+ of critical power capacity 65 total acres of owned land enables growth capacity.

Why is NO One Talking About The Negative Effects of Data Centers?

Educational Resources Below & Article Below.

QTS-data-center-website

https://q.com/data-centers/denver/

365 Data Center in Aurora Colorado Behind Fire Station #12

3431 N Windsor Drive Aurora, CO 80011

https://365datacenters.com/aurora-data-center/

Western Resource Advocates (southwest advocates educational video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq3qckz3sME

Economy Media How Data Centers Are Wiping Out Our Drinking Water

https://youtu.be/ipPwt1hyvV0?si=mOYba5p6aJjpNxEI

Business Insider Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion

https://youtu.be/t-8TDOFqkQA?si=ITDX4cwEYlHa9nal

Sentinel Article May 18, 2016

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora-oks-tax-waiver-bid-land-chase-data-center/

The city is working on a tax incentive plan that would refund about $11 million in tax revenue for the company as long as they meet certain employment requirements. Wendy Mitchell, executive director of the Aurora Economic Development Council, said the project is an important one for the city.

Despite its hefty $11-million price tag, the incentive package sailed through council. Not only did it pass with unanimous support, but council discussed the matter in an open meeting for just a couple minutes before signing off.

Aurora Colorado Federal, State & Intergovernmental Relations Policy Committee Friday, August 15, 2025, 11:00 a.m.

https://www.auroragov.org/common/pages/GetFile.ashx?key=p6U%2FAWdb

Planning and Economic Development Policy Committee November 9, 2022 8:30 am

https://www.auroragov.org/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=19080586

Planning and Economic Development Policy Committee February 8, 2023 8:30 am

https://www.auroragov.org/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=19322342

Videos of the Aurora Data Centers on My Social Media Channels Links on Home Page

Update: April 8, 2026

I received the meter readings from Aurora Water Department for the QTS Data Center. Picture above. I appears to be on a monthly basis and they are billed on the 8th of the month. Unit of measurement is KGAL which equals 1,000 Gallons. So the highest usage amount in 1 month was in January 2026 which was 72,000 Gallons of water! I am going to get the water bill for the "365 Data Center".

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Update: April 9, 2026 I got the meter readings for the 365 Data Center behind fire station 12. Near Walmart on Tower & I-70. Address 3431 N Windsor Drive Aurora, CO 80011 The 365 data center is using an extreme amount of potable water from Aurora. For the month of August 2025 the data center used over 2 million gallons of water. I do NOT believe that the QTS data center is operational or active because of the low water use. I attended a Ward 2 Meeting and asked Amy Wiles if the QTS Data center is active? Amy stated that she did not know. But she told me after the meeting that she lives right by the data center. How do you not know if the data center is active but you are on city council and live near it? The Second part of the story is my report of the Ward 2 meeting and the conversation I had with Amy Wiles. Video of the meeting will be on YouTube Soon. Subscribe and hit the like button.

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I have uploaded the 365 data center water meter document to Internet Archive where you can download it for FREE. I am having trouble uploading documents to Odysee at the moment.

https://archive.org/details/365-Data-Center-Water-Meter-Readings-Aurora-Colorado-USA

This story is about the two data centers in Aurora, Colorado, USA. Why is their little to NO information about them? How data centers have been a big issue in small towns, small cities, big cities in America, and how people are fighting back against them. But most importantly, how little information there is online are made available to the public by the city of Aurora, Colorado. When something this big is kept so quiet, it makes me think that there may be corruption within the government. How educated were the people of Aurora, Colorado Educated about data centers, or were they even notified about the data center before it being built in Aurora, Colorado? Data centers use massive, massive amounts of water, potable water, and electricity. And these two energy resources we struggle to obtain in Aurora, Colorado. Electric prices go up, are going up. We have frequent power outages. Currently, it's April fifth, twenty twenty-six, and the city of Aurora is in a drought, a very serious drought. I believe they are going to start restricting residents' water usage, especially when it comes to lawns. Let me look this up. Aurora, Colorado is also in a high state of alert for fires. Anyways, more about the restrictions later. There are two data centers in Aurora, Colorado. There's one by a fire station. It is not that big. It is about the size of a small, I'd say a medium-sized warehouse facility. Small to medium-sized warehouse facility. There is no, uh, visible words on it indicating that it is a data center, yet it is located in a very, uh, high traffic industrial area. It is near the major at intersection of Tower Road and I-seventy. It is right di-directly behind Fire Station number twelve. The name of it is three sixty-five Data Centers. It is on Windsor Drive. It's very quiet in the immediate area around that data center. So it is water-cooled. So it is being... Our water, Aurora's water, I'm sure of it, is being used to cool that data center. In, uh, data centers in the Southwest get a lot of complaints from nearby residents because of the very loud volume, the loud noise coming from the data centers. That is because they are air-cooled, from what I learned. They are air-cooled, uh, uh, data centers because, you know, water is very scarce in the Southwest. Um, Southwest, uh, you know, like Phoenix, Arizona area and such, you know, They have very limited water. I, um, I did look at the data center. It's still, even though it's not that large, I'm pretty sure that it's taking up a lot of electricity and water usage. Now, I did see the bigger data center, and that really shocked me how massive that data center was because it... I had only seen, you know, Google, uh, Images online, satellite images. Uh, Google hasn't updated the satellite image, so it only showed the construction process. And then I seen some pictures online of it. Very few pictures of it are online. That-- But when I physically visited the location, it was shocking. I'd have to say sh- very shocking how big it was. And the power lines that go to it, it has its own electrical substation there. I believe that is the, uh, correct terminology for the, uh, that, uh, facility that's nearby it. It has its own... It's, uh, it's near the major intersection of E-four-seven-nine-zero South, so it's like a, a small highway. Toll-- It's called a toll road and I-70. It's specifically on North Gun Club Road. It's in an industrial area. Uh, there's not a lot of development around there. Well, actually, no, I take that back. Uh, I did not... Now I can see there is actually a neighborhood right by it, and there's a school, Vista Peak Exploratory School. There's a youth football field out there, Vista Peak Community Garden. So there's a, a housing development out there. I'm assuming it's called Vista Peak. So there's not a whole lot of people living up there. Across the toll road is a Horizon Uptown, I believe, apartments or real estate developer. The specific address of this QTS data center is one one two zero North Gun Club Road, Aurora, Colorado, zip code eight zero zero one eight. The name of it is QTS, and their website is qtsdatacenters.com. If you go to their website, it specifically sh- states how much electricity they use. It, it is, uh... They say it's called a critical campus capacity, a hundred and sixty megawatts. Right now, it's planned at a hundred and sixty megawatts of critical power capacity. Sixty-five total acres of owned land enables growth capacity. Now, I visited the site. The building... They're, they're build-- They're, they're starting to build another building. It's not, not complete at all. It's, it's just the shell pretty much. They have concrete walls up, um, but you can see inside the building 'cause there's no windows. Um, they have the, uh, steel beams, every... That's all, uh, complete. But I believe that the, the main... the one that's finished, the building that's, is finished, at least at in the exterior, it is already up and running. That's what I... I'm assuming that, but I will figure this out. Um, but this is... It is disturbing on how large that facility is. It was massive, extremely massive. Um, I don't even know if... Let me try this through Google Street View. Nope. Google, Google won't even allow it, actually. It's weird because, you know, when you pick up the little guy in the bottom right-hand corner and you drag him over to the, uh, to the road, s- and the, and the roads will highlight to show where you can drop the guy, it won't, it won't go anywhere near that data center. That is shocking. It almost... I speculate that Google may have some kind of, uh, agreement with, uh, data centers or certain data centers to not show them from Google Street View. Why else would they not? And that Google Street View is not even updated. It's before there was anything built out there. I'm kinda curious. Now I wanna see the other one.Oh, it works for the, uh, smaller data center, the one behind the, the fire station number 12. But yeah, if you drive by that smaller data center, it's behind fire station number 12. It's just a blank warehouse. There's nothing, no signs, no logos, no nothing on it. There's a lot of trees by it. It-- there's a bike path that actually goes behind it on the other side of the, uh, the ditch or creek. But, but yeah, these, these data centers can use, um, a lot of, a lot of water, very large amounts of water. And right now... So Aurora's at-- we have watering restrictions. It says today is, uh, Sunday, April fifth, twenty twenty, uh, six, and it is-- I'm on the Aurora, Colorado's website. It is says, "Despite the nice weather, you should still wait to turn on your sprinkler system. Weather in Colorado can be fickle, and eighty-degree days can still turn into below freezing temperatures and snowstorms, damaging your sprinkler system. Aurora Water advises that you wait until May fifteenth to turn on your sprinkler system." It says... Oh, actually, it says, "Aurora is on normal watering restrictions." It says, "So you can water no more than three days per week. Failure to comply with these regulations can result in warnings and/or fines. Water use restrictions may change in the event of a water shortage or emergency. Please check back periodically for updates." Well, according to, uh, multiple news sources, they're saying that, um, someone who's in charge of the water department, I forget the, uh, specific, uh, um, chain of command wording or terminology for that chain of command, but they are advising the city of Aurora that we need to be on a very high alert and strict water restrictions. Yet, nobody is talking about the data centers and how much water they're using. When everybody else in the country, in hundreds of cities, or I li- I believe... There's gotta be a-- I've seen so many stuff on the internet lately. I've seen so many stuff, s-so much content on the internet, especially on YouTube, about citizens upset over data centers and very investigative reporters looking into data centers. This is the result, direct result of the AI boom, artificial intelligence industry. It takes massive amounts of electricity to supply this demand, and what they use is data centers. Data centers are like servers, server racks, basically computers, just big industrial computers. In layman's terms, for those who are not computer savvy, to, in order to compute, in order to process these artificial neural networks that mimic a human brain. Like I said, I searched online. I searched on the Centennial Newspaper, and it doesn't address anything. No, I couldn't find anything. I only found... Actually, I found maybe two articles. I don't believe there was, uh... But they don't, what they don't talk about, those two articles that I found, was how much energy consumption and how much water consumption that data centers consume. So the only articles that I found when I type in Aurora, Colorado data center was directly from the, the small data center, which is, uh, Three Sixty Five Data Centers. They have... It shows up at the top of the search engine. You have some, a news, uh, news organization called The Colorado Sun s-states that Aurora's data center is to become one of Excel's biggest customers.The QTS hyperscale data center. So that-- they're, they're addressing the, the very large one. So the Colorado Sun covered it, but they only talk about how much electricity that they're going to use, but they don't talk about the water. You know, I'm not shaming the reporter. I haven't heard about the Colorado Sun. S-Centennial doesn't have anything about it. I searched directly on their website. So far, I couldn't find anything. And usually, they are, uh... Well, they're supposed to be on top of everything. I'm not saying they are. I do not like that paper. Mm, I could, I could say some things right now, but I'm gonna refrain. But I don't like that pile of shit newspaper that I use to wipe my ass with. But yeah, nobody's talking about how mu- how much water these things are t- can take. And like I said, I, I... That's a very massive facility. Oh, it's wow. I only saw the west side of the building. The west side where I can directly see the substation, the electrical substation, and also the new building that they're, they're working on. I was trying to confirm if it was owned by QTS, but then I got closer to the building, and I saw a sign, QTS, on, uh, the, um, that new construction facility. So they do own that, and it is massive. It is extremely massive. They have very big power lines going to that sub- going to that data center. You're talking like big power lines that are meant to power neighborhoods. So I'm going to confront the city councilor who has that data center in her district. Uh, I believe it's a female. Ward two. The data center, QTS data center's in ward two. So is also the oth- the 365 data center. The city councilor for ward two isAmy Wiles. I've met her before. She seems to be a very good person, and I hope she is. But the weird-- the shocking thing was she had taken a very strong stance against a car wash in her community. I don't understand what the big issue was or why it was such a big deal for a car wash, car wash. So I'm kinda confused. A data center would be a bigger issue than a car wash. S- Which... Yeah. A c-- the, a data center would consume hundreds of times more than a car wash would, probably even thousands more. I'm using AI for some of this. But the amount of energy that data centers use, whether it's this, this numbers may be accurate or not, is an exorbitant amount. An exorbitant amount of electricity. So what I'm reading is hyperscale facilities are the largest consumers, typically drawing 100 megawatts of power, enough to supply... 100-plus megawatts of power, enough to supply electricity to roughly eighty thousand to four hundred thousand homes, depending on the specific facility and year. AI-driven workloads are the primary driver of this surge, with AI-optimized server racks requiring forty to sixty-plus kilowatts. So, the AI boom is also causing, uh, an, a, uh, a GPU shortage, causing GPU... So computer parts. These are-- What I'm talking about right now is computer parts. Even consumer computer parts, causing them to rise. I know this 'cause I, I, I watch some tech channels. You're talking about, uh, graphics cards, also known as GPUs. They are also causing RAM prices to go up, random access memory, computer parts prices to go up. And, uh, I read something recently that said something about that, uh, memory storage, so like SD cards, certain things are gonna-- prices are gonna go up. So it just, it's really putting a strain on everyday consumers versus big i- big business. The scary thing... The thing that scares me most is that people are not educated. The, the city of Aurora is not doing enough to educate people about data centers. I don't believe that they even warned them about this data center or had a citizen input about the data center before it was even built. That's something that I wanna find out. And if you're reading this and you live in Aurora, Colorado, please reach out and tell me. Reach out to your city councilor. Reach out to all the city councilors. It doesn't matter if it's in Ward 2. It doesn't even matter if you do live in Aurora, actually, because it'll still affect you. We have the-- Denver uses the same utility company. Even though the rou- surrounding cities in the Denver Metro use the same utility company for electricity, Aurora has its own water. But still, we are very interconnected with surrounding governments, cities. ThisIs an issue I wanna look into. Since the city of Aurora owns its own water supply, I'm going to try to put in a public records request to get the water bill or water con-- and also the water, amount of water consumption by the data center on a monthly basis and see what is, what is the result. It's been a lot of da-- lot of blackouts since I moved here. I lived in Green Valley Ranch before living in Aurora, and it's right next to Aurora, uses the same Xcel Energy. And we-- I, I was shocked at the amount of blackouts that occurred. I don't-- I've never lived in a city with that much, that many blackouts. That many power outages. I, I, I felt like it was in a third world country. It was insane. And I believe that the data center may have been a big part of that. Spoke with the, uh, chief battalion of one of the fire, uh, the Aurora Fire Department. Went to a, uh, Ward Three meeting and s-some of the power outages are caused by the electrical utility company actually sh-- intentionally shutting down power lines, specifically during windy weather, because if a power line falls down, it can ignite a brush fire and then cause a, you know, a, a major fire. So sometimes the electrical companies shut, intentionally shut down the power because for safety reasons. But a lot of these power outages did occur, or some of them did occur without high winds. The cost of electricity is going up and all over the country when these data centers pop up, a direct result is that electric-- the price of electricity will increase because there is more demand for the supply. And who ends up paying more? It's this consumer, the little guy, the everyday Joe Schmo. And in some cases, these data centers pay a cheaper rate for the electricity because they are purchasing it in bulk. Some of you may shop at Costco or Sam's Club. Why are the prices cheap? Because you're buying it in bulk. The same can be applied or applicable to electricity. That is a very scary reality when you have a data center in your backyard, and you may not be well off financially. Even if you are very well off financially, you may not respect the fact that you have to pay a higher rate of electricity. I first learned about the issue of water consumption from Ruben Medina because a resident was asking if they are going to build more housing for people. Ruben Medina stated, "We wanna build more housing, but we don't have the water for it. We need the water infrastructure, and we need the water. We have to take that into consideration before we approve any more housing/development." If housing is such a big issue because of the water consumptionThen why was a data center built when a data center can use the same amount of water consumption and electricity as thousands of homes? Like I said, very little information is found online about the data centers. There's no information that I could find on the Centennial newspaper about the QTS data center. A big red flag. My goal is to go to a Ward two meeting, film it, and directly ask the city councilor about it to find out if, if the local residents were educated about it or had any input about it before it was built. I don't know when construction was finished, but I'm gonna find out. I know the... Well, I have met... Personally, I've met the county assessor for Arapahoe County. More coming soon. I have uploaded a video on Odysee, YouTube, and the Internet Archive of both data centers, the QTS data center and the 365 data center. Thank you very much. Subscribe. Email me if you have any questions or leads. 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