Commissioners defer data-center rules; ask for study and clearer definitions

Dozens of residents, business representatives and developers used the public-comment period to press the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners on data center policy, urging either a strict local regime or an outright ban. Commissioners debated whether to wait for pending state and federal scrutiny or to commission a local independent health and environmental study now. The board voted to defer the study-resolution to Nov. 10 with a prior stop in PECS on Oct. 27, asking staff to make the study’s scope and the proposed definition categories more explicit.