BALANGA CITY: Former senator Loren Legarda, who is seeking a new term in the legislature, on Thursday, March 17, favored the recommendation of Gov. Albert Garcia that the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong town be converted into a cloud computing facility.
The Senate candidate said the suggestion of Garcia on the cloud computing facility was good. She said that as the principal author of the Innovation Act passed before the pandemic, she believes that cloud computing, cloud storage, and the like, are the way of today and the future.
Cloud computing is an application-based software infrastructure that stores data on remote servers which can be accessed through the internet.
“The BNPP facility is old and it has not been used for so long and it has major safety concerns. We need to further discuss the issue of nuclear energy because we do have existing energy sources like renewable energy,” Legarda said, stressing that “if nuclear energy will be explored, it must be of the latest technology.”
Garcia said there are already many modern technologies that are safe which can be considered.
“The leaders of this province are appealing to those concerned if they are to use nuclear energy, use that of the latest and more advanced and not the 50-year-old facility that we now have,” Garcia added.
The local government unit recommended converting BNPP into a cloud computing facility if the province of Bataan is to be an information center hub in the country.
“What can be more secure for a data hub than the foundation of the dome of a nuclear power plant,” the governor said.
Vice Gov. Cris Garcia and other provincial officials are supportive of the governor’s recommendation.
Legarda was in Bataan with the UniTeam led by presidential candidate former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. where they were welcomed by thousands of supporters.
She was the author of converting the Bataan Economic Zone, formerly the Bataan Export Processing Zone, into the Freeport Area of Bataan.
