Commissioners debate data-center operator rules and consider moratorium while ordinance is refined
After staff presented a model operator-focused data-center ordinance, commissioners and counsel questioned enforceability, preemption and proprietary limits; several members expressed interest in pausing new applications (a moratorium) while staff drafts amendments and explores legal constraints.
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The board took up a staff-provided template ordinance from the National Association of Data Center Readiness that would add operator-focused rules to the county's existing data-center framework. The template addresses topics from infrastructure readiness and environmental sustainability to independent monitoring and operational performance, but commissioners and legal counsel disagreed about what the county can lawfully regulate.
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