Champaign County task force debates draft data center ordinance: renewables, storage, enforceability and decommissioning
Task force members and residents debated a draft ordinance that would require renewable energy and storage from large data centers, weighed on-site versus off-site 'deliverable' renewables, discussed a proposed ban on small modular reactors, and raised enforceability limits because the county is not home rule.
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The Champaign County Data Center Activities Task Force spent much of its July 6 meeting debating a draft ordinance that would impose energy‑use and grid‑impact conditions on large data centers proposed for unincorporated parts of the county.
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