Eco-Yotta Inc. executives Prashanth Gorantala and Tirusha Dave offered their most comprehensive presentation yet to Oneonta's town board last Tuesday, December 9, hoping to earn requisite support for their controversial proposed artificial intelligence research center. Some board members expressed appreciation for the new depth of detail.
The specially scheduled meeting for the presentation, which did not include public comment and lasted around two hours, covered some site plans, cash flow estimates, electricity and water usage, technologies that will be used, local partnerships, changes over the proposal's history, and more. The presentation came after more than half a year of community resistance, exchanges between the town and developers, and several project revisions.
The following day's regularly scheduled town board meeting—the last of the year—was canceled due to snow. The same day, December 10, Eco-Yotta wrote to the board requesting they schedule a special meeting before the end of the year to take the next procedural step, noting "serious concern" of "bias" from January's incoming town supervisor, Will Rivera, who has advocated against data centers coming to the area.
At press time, a town board special meeting agenda for December 17 did not include the Eco-Yotta project.
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