DEQ positions itself as an authority on environmental health and quality across the commonwealth. They set the standards on pollution prevention and reduction, erosion and sediment control, stormwater management and a host of other efforts to maintain our health and environment. However, enabling data centers to operate diesel fueled generators would completely go against everything DEQ positions itself to do. These generators would pollute our air, water and land and have lasting damages ti our health for generators. Instead of being a leader in environmental quality, Virginia would become ground zero for the unregulated effects of AI and its expansion. DEQ should have the strength of its convictions and defend the health of Virginia instead of conceding to the data centers.