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Commission adopts data-center ordinance with referral to planning for tighter energy, water and transparency rules
Summary
The commission approved a data-center text amendment and sent it back to the planning commission with seven specific special‑use criteria — including annual energy and water reporting, power-allocation letters, clustering limits, community benefits agreements and decommissioning/recycling plans — to strengthen transparency and environmental safeguards.
Athens-Clarke County commissioners voted April 7 to approve a text amendment regulating data centers as an industrial use and to immediately refer the ordinance back to the planning commission with directions to add seven specific criteria to the special‑use review process.
Commissioner Melissa Meyers read the seven requested additions into the record: (1) an energy‑consumption plan and annual reporting (including peak demand, renewable-energy sourcing and backup generation disclosure, plus a power‑allocation letter from the provider);…
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