Sometimes one gets so sad they just write what comes down.  I got that way reading Delaware Way which alerted me to the fact that Newark City was told the ancillary power plant would be very small,  the size for an IKEA….

It is really a gigantic contraption that will be the 5th largest power generator in the state.  It will run 24/7 under the pretense of keeping the data center running.  It will produce 248 MWh and will use 1MWh to power the accompanying data center, and will spin 50 MWh to the City of Newark for its power., which leaves it 197 MW to sell to the grid…

That is a lot of power.  According to Delmarva Power, it would cover 69% of  Delaware’s combined Residential, Small Commercial and Industrial customer’s electrical needs.

So by attaching a data center, Delaware gets to build a new power plant, this one built 200 feet from the nearest homes and neighborhoods, that operates 24/7.  No power plant attached to the grid, ever operates 24/7.  They all have downtime, but this one, because of the data center attached, will be allowed to operate at full capacity 24/7…. an investor’s dream.

So as I look back at Markell’s legacy across 5 years…  I see Fisker, Bloom, Delaware City refinery, and now the data center….  The Fisker was a bad deal.  In his defense, no one knew how bad.

But the Bloom deal with its attachment to our electric bills, the back-room manipulations regarding the Coastal Zone Act with the refinery, the medical facility outside of Middletown,  the snow job on the Kinder Morgan’s acquisition of the Port, and now lying in regards to this data center, make it look like the only way Markell can bring jobs into Delaware, is to trick the public into accepting it…..

There is a definite trend.  Very much like keeping the details of common core out of sight until too late…

Sadly openness and honesty do not abide here.

And that is just really sad.  Why do we have to trick everyone and why are we only getting shady offers to begin with?  Are we selling companies as a positive, our current administration’s ability to trick everyone?

It seems so long ago, I can’t even remember who said… “sunshine is an amazing disinfectant.”