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Eco-Yotta representatives gave a two-hour presentation to the Oneonta Town Board on December 9. It included a floor plan of the barn, pictured, with the green representing space to be used for hydroponics. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)

Eco-Yotta Presents Business Plan to Oneonta Board, Criticizes Process

Community Resistance Grows More Organized Ahead of New Board Swearing-in

By ERIC SANTOMAURO-STENZELONEONTA

Eco-Yotta Inc. executives Prashanth Gorantala and Tirusha Dave offered their most comprehensive presentation yet to Oneonta’s town board last Tuesday, December 9, hoping to earn requisite support for their controversial proposed artificial intelligence research center. Some board members expressed appreciation for the new depth of detail.

The specially scheduled meeting for the presentation, which did not include public comment and lasted around two hours, covered some site plans, cash flow estimates, electricity and water usage, technologies that will be used, local partnerships, changes over the proposal’s history, and more. The presentation came after more than half a year of community resistance, exchanges between the town and developers, and several project revisions.

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