Candidates split on data centers; supervisors call for updated comprehensive plan

Oct 15, 2026

Data centers emerged as a focal issue: some supervisor candidates want to ban them as a land use, others favor ordinance‑based regulation; multiple candidates also called for updating Dubuque County's comprehensive plan (last revised 2013).

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Data centers repeatedly came up as a dominant county issue, with sharp differences among supervisor candidates about how to respond and repeated calls to update the county comprehensive plan.

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