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Council includes data‑campus drilling setback in consent approvals; distance not specified
Summary
Grand Prairie staff described an amendment to gas drilling and production regulations that would create a setback from data campuses (clusters of data centers). The council approved the related agenda item as part of the consent agenda March 18; staff did not state a setback distance during the presentation.
Grand Prairie — The Grand Prairie City Council approved a change to the city's gas drilling and production regulations in the consent agenda March 18 that establishes a setback from “data campuses,” staff said — though the precise distance was not read into the record.
Why it matters: The change seeks to limit how close operators can place drilling activity to clusters of data centers described in the ordinance as “data campuses.” Data centers house servers and critical…
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