<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">marko.spasojevic--- via Edge-all</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:edge-all@lists.ucr.edu">edge-all@lists.ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 11:42 AM<br>Subject: [Edge-all] Data center ban in Riverside<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:edge-all@lists.ucr.edu">edge-all@lists.ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-3496825886452704854"><div lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-3496825886452704854WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The city of Riverside is currently considering a ban to data centers within the City of Riverside. We at the EDGE institute have put together a letter in support of that ban as data centers have enormous environmental impacts and building data centers in Riverside make little sense. The full justification for our support of the data center ban in is the letter which you can read and sign here (<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlYPyvcwueGS3EHQp87wzGa9y1gg-i1cpVco6gj0PxfdXr2w/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103995052099029206657" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlYPyvcwueGS3EHQp87wzGa9y1gg-i1cpVco6gj0PxfdXr2w/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103995052099029206657</a>). <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">More information on the data center ban can be found here <a href="https://www.raincrossgazette.com/a-citywide-data-center-ban-could-be-coming-to-riverside/" target="_blank">https://www.raincrossgazette.com/a-citywide-data-center-ban-could-be-coming-to-riverside/</a> and <a href="https://www.raincrossgazette.com/council-approves-veterans-tech-training-deal-with-data-center-piece-scrapped/?ref=the-daily-gazette-newsletter" target="_blank">https://www.raincrossgazette.com/council-approves-veterans-tech-training-deal-with-data-center-piece-scrapped/?ref=the-daily-gazette-newsletter</a>  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Thank you for considering supporting this cause and please feel free to pass this along to anyone else at UCR you think would be interested in signing. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Marko<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Marko J. Spasojevic<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Associate Professor<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Environmental Dynamics and GeoEcology Institute<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">University of California Riverside<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Riverside, CA 92521<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Phone: (Office) <a href="tel:(951)%20827-9541" value="+19518279541" target="_blank">951-827-9541</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://wildriverside.ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://wildriverside.ucr.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="https://mspaso.wixsite.com/traitecology" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">traitecology.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">He/Him/His<u></u><u></u></span><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