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Edgefield County discusses draft data-center ordinance, aims to limit siting to industrial areas and require decommissioning bonds
Summary
Council members and staff discussed a draft ordinance to regulate data centers and crypto-mining operations, focusing on industrial siting, noise and water use limits, power infrastructure impacts, and requiring decommissioning plans or bonds. Staff warned state legislation could pre-empt local rules.
Edgefield County Council on April 14, 2026, discussed a draft data-center ordinance that county staff and the planning commission prepared to guide the siting and operation of data centers and related high-energy activities such as cryptocurrency mining.
County Administrator David Caddell and planning staff told council the ordinance aims to require data centers be located in industrial zones, reduce noise and aesthetic impacts near housing, require recirculating (not…
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