Planning commission debates stance on data centers amid infrastructure concerns
Commission members flagged data centers as a potential new land use, voicing concerns about energy, water and noise demands and asked staff to consider whether the town should prohibit them or craft detailed code and performance standards.
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The Coventry Planning Commission spent a significant portion of its Sept. 23 meeting weighing whether the town should take a regulatory position on data centers, an increasingly controversial land use. The commission's staff raised the item as a rising national issue and asked whether the town should prohibit data centers, treat them as a special use or draft new code to define them.
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