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Denver committee forwards one‑year moratorium on new data centers to study water, energy and community impacts
Summary
Council sponsors presented an ordinance to pause new data center approvals for one year while a broadly representative working group studies energy, water, noise and siting impacts. Committee advanced the moratorium to full council and asked staff to finalize the working‑group makeup and timelines.
Councilmembers Paul Cashman and Daryl Watson introduced ordinance 260431 to place a one‑year moratorium on new data centers in the City and County of Denver and to convene a working group to study whether and how the city should regulate future data center development.
Cashman said the moratorium is intended to pause new site development plan and site development plan amendment approvals so the city can evaluate the impacts of a newer “breed” of data centers that require large amounts of electricity and potentially significant water…
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