The Center for Biological Diversity sued the city of Pittsburg, California, on Monday for approving a technology park last month that will most likely include a data center.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Contra Costa County Superior Court, says Pittsburg’s City Council violated the California Environmental Quality Act on Nov. 4 when it approved the environmental impact report for the Pittsburg Technology Park, a 76-acre development in the southern part of the city.
The proposal from Pittsburg Data Hub, a subsidiary of Avaio Digital, a data center developer, would build out the project site in three phases. The first phase is assumed by the environmental impact review to be a 347,000-square-foot data center, commercial switching yard, backup diesel generator and Pacific Gas & Electric substation. Phases II and II would involve over 760,000 square feet of warehouse development.
The lawsuit says the project failed to adequately assess how the development, including the data center, would affect greenhouse gas emissions, water usage and harms to surrounding wetlands and wildlife, including the special-status Cooper’s hawk and white-tailed kite. It also says the city failed to consider how the project would affect traffic and noise, and asks that the project not move forward.
