Los Angeles – Last week, in a massive victory for the dedicated community members who opposed it, HMC Capital withdrew its application to build a data center project in Monterey Park.

Food & Water Watch Los Angeles Organizing Manager Andrea Vega released the following statement:

“This is a monumental moment for the community members who made it perfectly clear that Californians don’t need or want these hyperscale, water intensive data center projects that will only raise our electricity bills and threaten our climate goals,” said Andrea Vega, Los Angeles Organizing Manager. “We are proud of and inspired by our fellow Angelenos who made this happen and we urge our leaders to listen to the growing calls across the country to halt the buildout of these hyperscale data centers.”

Food & Water Watch led a sign-on letter from California based organizations calling on the Monterey Park City Council to reject the data center last month.