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Mega Or MDC-IL4 Beit Shemesh

Beit Shemesh · Mega Or / Nebius · under construction

Independent observatory

The five pillars behind the grade

Energy 1 of 6 measures ·
Water 0 of 4 measures –
Land & biodiversity 2 of 7 measures ·
Local impact 1 of 7 measures ·
Transparency & governance 0 of 2 measures –

A pillar with no letter rests on too few measures to defend one. We publish the count rather than a letter we could not stand behind.

The points that will decide

Energy

Local grid carbon intensity : 492.69 gCO2e/kWh

To ask for : What PUE is announced, and measured how? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun

Land & biodiversity

Overlap / distance to protected areas : protected natural area 1–5 km away
Soil status (artificialized / natural / agricultural) : previously developed land

To ask for : What ground footprint, and on which parcels? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun

Local impact

Absorption capacity (project size vs municipality) : 0.2895 MW per 1000 inhabitants

To ask for : How many permanent jobs after construction, and of what skill level? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun

What this looks like from the street

Noise — continuous, day and night

Cooling runs permanently and standby generators are tested on a schedule. What is regulated is not a distance but how far the noise rises at the neighbour's.

We hold neither a nearest-dwelling distance nor an acoustic study for this site. Both are obtainable: the study is a document in the file.

Standby generators and their fuel

A facility like this keeps standby generators and the tanks that feed them. They are what gets tested, what gets smelled, and what triggers its own permitting. Their number, their fuel and the volume stored are in the file where one exists.

We measure no health effect and we do not claim to. We publish what is in the file, and what is not.

What we have not measured

Grid connection capacity / proximitynot yet collected by us
Grid congestion / connection queuenot yet collected by us
Heat-network connectabilitynot yet collected by us
Local water stressverified absent from the file we read
Water body statusnot yet collected by us
Basin withdrawal pressurenot yet collected by us
Ecological corridors (TVB)verified absent from the file we read
Municipality socio-economic profilenot yet collected by us
Technological hazard / nearby Seveso sitesverified absent from the file we read
Observed level of oppositionverified absent from the file we read
Elected officials' position (voted facts only)verified absent from the file we read

These gaps are ours, not the developer's: they say where our measurement stops, and they do not penalise the site.

Where the procedure stands

announced
under review
under construction
operating

The permit falls under this country's own law, which we have not yet read.

The measures on the technical sheet, however, are taken the same way everywhere: they compare with any other site in the corpus, whatever law applies.

Ask the authority handling the file two things: where the file can be consulted, and until when an observation can be added to it.

What to get written into the approval

To ask for : What PUE is announced, and measured how? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : Will the waste heat be recovered, by whom, and from which phase? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : Which cooling technology, and how much water a year? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : What ground footprint, and on which parcels? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : Which avoidance, reduction and offset measures? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : Is the land already designated for development in a supra-municipal plan? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : Does the planning document have to be changed for this project? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : How many permanent jobs after construction, and of what skill level? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : What tax revenue for the municipality, over what period, with what abatements? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : What consultation is planned, on what date, and who answers it? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun
To ask for : Is the full file open to consultation, where, and until when? to demand under the operating conditions: the permit is granted, work has begun

Commitments that are not in the approval cannot be enforced: what is not written cannot be demanded later.

↔ Technical sheet — the measures one by one, their values and their sources