I live near Ashburn's Data Center Alley, where the presence of so many data centers has already altered our climate, severely damaged our local ecosystem, and poses a growing health hazard to families forced to live near them. Encouraging use of diesel generators would endanger the health of everyone in the community, filling our air with toxic substances that threaten our kids and older members of the community. 

The DEQ can't look to temporary "band-aid" solutions that patch the symptoms, but have to instead look at the bigger problem. There are already too many data centers forcing residents to take the burden of paying for their construction and power while getting negligible benefits that do nothing to make up for the space and safety we've lost. Instead of speeding up the suffocation of our communities by industrial infrastructure that should've never been here in the first place by letting them burn fossil fuels and worsen our atmosphere, we need to look for better solutions.