In 2025 the Calvert County Commissioners entered into a legally binding NDA with an unnamed party on the subject of data centers. They claimed the NDA “[was] not with a data center company.” Calvert residents have spoken out against it since the quiet rezoning ordinance that went into effect March 1st of 2025 and have been repeatedly told that our fear, our rage, was misplaced.

Earlier this month, Amazon posted a job listing for a Data Center Construction Manager in Lusby MD. Despite the fact that Calvert residents were told that, not only would we be made aware of the decision to build a data center prior to moving forward with construction, but we would be given specific details as to the direct impacts on our county, immediate and long term.

Use this form to email the county commissioners and demand that they do their jobs, and put the well being of their constituents and the environment ahead of corporate greed.

We do not want to experience the effects of Loudoun County, Virginia, or Memphis, Tennessee that we can see so plainly as it unfolds in real time. We do not want backdoor deals. Do not vote for the men that have lied in our faces and signed NonDisclosure Agreements against our interest. Do not vote for the men that sold our county out to Amazon.

• Amazon as a whole used 10.5bn gallons (39.7bn litres) of water in total in 2021, more than 95,000 US households. This is only their direct water consumption.
• In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed enough water to supply all of the state's residential users for five days. This is, again, only direct water consumption.
• Data centers are filled with PFAS(forever chemicals) and there is no long term testing done to support data center manufacturers’ claims of minimal pollution.
• In states with a high concentration of data centers like Virginia, electricity prices have increased by up to 267% over the last five years. The electricity costs put on data centers is not rising nearly as quickly, which means almost all the increase in consumption is being put on the residents to offset, rather than the actual users of all that extra electricity.