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Planning commission continues review of proposed data-center ordinance, seeks BPU input on energy and water standards
Summary
Commissioners reviewed a draft ordinance for data centers and cryptocurrency-mining operations, discussed sound, water and energy requirements, and recommended staff incorporate Brainerd Public Utilities feedback and delay a public hearing to allow more revisions.
The Brainerd Planning Commission continued its review of a proposed data-center ordinance that would regulate sound mitigation, electronic-waste handling and renewable-energy offsets for data centers and cryptocurrency-mining operations.
Director James Krombick presented a revised draft that moves data centers to conditional use permit review, adds design requirements for sound mitigation and would allow the city to request a third-party noise study once per year if complaints arise. The draft also would require operators to post a facility liaison and provide contact information to owners within 500 feet; it would require electronic waste to be hauled by a…
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