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Coweta County commissioners continue data center ordinance hearing after hours of public comment
Summary
County planners presented a draft data center ordinance that sets siting, lot-size, setback, noise and environmental review standards; residents pressed for larger buffers, lower height limits and decommissioning bonds, and the board voted to continue the hearing to Dec. 16 for further staff work.
County staff presented a draft ordinance intended to regulate data center development countywide and the Board of Commissioners recessed a multi-hour public hearing and voted to continue the matter to Dec. 16 to give staff time to incorporate commissioner guidance.
The presentation, delivered by a county planner, defined a data center as a building up to 500,000 square feet and described zoning rules that would require many data centers to locate in industrial districts, connect to public water and sewer, meet minimum lot standards (25 acres), observe setbacks and buffer requirements, and submit environmental impact assessments and written utility capacity verification. The draft also prohibits open-loop cooling, limits…
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