Supervisors debate data-center and battery-storage rules; no moratorium adopted
County planning staff explained that data centers are not a listed land use in much of rural Mills County, while supervisors raised emergency-response and safety concerns about battery-storage facilities; the board discussed symbolic moratoria but decided current non-listing and case-by-case review should remain the primary control for now, with ordinance work possible if proposals arise.
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Supervisors spent substantial time discussing community requests for a moratorium on data centers and battery-storage facilities and received a planning update explaining the county's current regulatory posture.
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