Regional commission backs county moratorium on large-scale computing facilities
The commission approved forwarding a Hamblen County request for a one-year moratorium on High-Intensity Electrical Load Facilities—defined as facilities with peak demand of 5 MW or greater or those that require dedicated electrical infrastructure for industrial-scale computing—so county staff can draft land-use regulations.
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The Morristown Regional Planning Commission voted July 14 to forward a Hamblen County request for a temporary one-year moratorium on High-Intensity Electrical Load Facilities to the Hamblen County Commission. Josh Cole, Senior Planner, presented the request and read the definition used in the moratorium petition: "Any facility with a peak electrical demand of 5 megawatts (MW) or greater or that requires dedicated electrical infrastructure primarily for industrial-scale computing operations."
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