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Holyoke ordinance committee asks legal to draft data-center ban, seeks study
Summary
After debate, the Ordinance Committee asked legal staff to draft ordinance language to prohibit commercial data centers citywide while the city commissions a study to define acceptable uses. The Planning Board recommended a temporary ban pending research; committee asked staff to ensure grandfathering of the existing high-performance computing facility.
Holyoke — The Ordinance Committee advanced a motion on April 14 to request legal ordinance language to add a use definition for “data center” and to clarify that commercial data centers should not be allowed in any zoning district while the city studies the use and its impacts.
The Planning Board unanimously recommended a ban pending further study, citing the need for parameters—particularly around power consumption, noise and siting—that a broad text change would lack. “Not…
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