Local officials urge zoning guardrails after state data-center bill
Members warned that a state data-center bill’s thresholds could leave gaps; Wilson County said it is drafting its own zoning standards and urged local guardrails while the legislature debates guardrails for utilities and major electricity consumers.
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A committee member raised concerns about a recently introduced data-center bill, arguing that facility-size thresholds (for example, the bill’s 50-megawatt threshold) are too blunt and could allow many smaller but still substantial facilities to avoid stricter standards. The member said local zoning should set more precise guardrails to prevent clustering and to protect electric infrastructure.
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