Komor Considers Challenging Disqualification - Seeks Carbon-Removal Pledge From Weiser and Marx

Ten days, two questions: Is Independent Candidate Christian Komor still in the Governor's race? Will either major-party nominee commit to a Colorado Energy Office feasibility study on whether recovered data-center heat can support atmospheric carbon removal?

DENVER — Dr. Christian Komor is asking Phil Weiser and Victor Marx to commit, if elected, to directing the Colorado Energy Office to conduct a feasibility study of whether recovered data-center heat can support atmospheric carbon removal — and is offering his public support for that commitment.

Komor says the Secretary of State's office did not certify his write-in candidacy for governor, a delay he attributes to postal delivery of a required affidavit. Under Colorado law, write-in votes are counted only for candidates who filed the affidavit of intent by the deadline. Given the impact withdrawl of his candidacy may have on Coloradan's climate change survival the campaign is reviewing its options.

Whatever the outcome of that review, the climate question Komor raised as a candidate does not disappear — the next governor will face it regardless.

So Komor is putting that question directly to the two nominees who will appear on the ballot: will you commit to an independently reviewed feasibility study, conducted through the Colorado Energy Office, evaluating whether recovered data-center heat can support solid-sorbent direct air capture — covering technical feasibility, cost, energy and water requirements, and net carbon accounting?

"Colorado is absorbing a major data-center buildout," Komor said. "The next governor decides whether that buildout becomes a climate opportunity or just another load on the grid. A feasibility study is how you find out."

The commitment Komor is asking for is narrow: not an endorsement of his platform, not new spending beyond a study, and not a position on his ballot dispute.

If either nominee commits to the study in writing within ten days, Komor will publicly support that commitment and communicate his recommendation to his supporters. If both commit, Komor will recognize both commitments. If neither responds by the deadline, that will be published as well. [Rule for both-commit case to be approved by candidate before distribution.]

Written responses will be published in full at k4gov.com. Candidates may support the request, raise substantive objections, or propose an alternative mechanism — any documented position counts as an answer.

The request is grounded in a technical preprint published on EarthArXiv in September 2026, which frames the data-center-heat-to-carbon-removal question as testable. The preprint does not claim demonstrated performance.