Commissioner Land urges data-center workshop after Suwannee Valley site plan

Jul 22, 2026

After residents raised concerns about a tenant plan on a Suwannee Valley parcel, Commissioner Land and public commenters urged a county workshop to study data-center impacts, zoning and infrastructure before any future proposals proceed.

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Commissioner Land told the Suwannee County Board that a 26-acre Suwannee Valley-owned parcel in Louisville has a site plan from a tenant proposing small solar fields with on-site battery storage and so-called "cold storage" units, not an active data-processing campus. "It is not a data center," Commissioner Land said, adding the company will operate small solar fields, store energy in batteries and lease cold-storage units that he described as backup memory storage.

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