We live here too.
My brother and I, along with our family, have owned and operated the Mountain Branch property in Joppa for years. We intend to remain part of the ownership group. We are not outside developers passing through. We live with the consequences of what happens here.
That is why we did not take a standard data center blueprint and try to force it onto Joppa. Knowing the concerns our neighbors have raised, we engineered this campus from the ground up around strict, enforceable environmental and community standards. Every major technical decision was designed to protect the residents who live here.
We are asking the County Council to do something a moratorium cannot do: actually write the strongest data center rulebook in Maryland. We will be the first project to live under those rules.
I created this website because Harford County residents deserve a clear, honest source of information about what we are actually building here — and about what is at stake beyond this single project. The future of the AI economy is being decided right now, in counties like ours, by decisions that will set the terms for the next thirty years.
Politicians on both sides of this debate know what is at stake. Many are privately supportive of responsible AI infrastructure but publicly cautious — afraid that a small, well-organized opposition will dominate the conversation while the silent majority of residents worry quietly at home and never get a hearing. That is not how Harford County should make a generational decision. Read what we are proposing. Ask hard questions. Show up at the May 19 hearing. Put your voice on the record.
Ask your politicians to create standards that protect and enhance your life — not moratoriums.