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Industry outreach prompts early planning for data‑center and geothermal ordinance
Summary
Commissioners asked staff to draft ordinance targets for data centers and continue geothermal ordinance work; TLS Geothermics attended public comment offering technical and stakeholder support.
Commissioners directed staff to add data‑center regulation to a future agenda and flagged geothermal policy as an area needing careful legal and permitting work. Commissioner travel to an Oregon data‑center tour prompted discussion of the infrastructure and resource implications (electricity, water) that data centers raise.
Rusty Muscarella, stakeholder engagement officer for TLS Geothermics, addressed the board during public comment and offered to work with county staff on ordinance development. "TLS is a French company ... we have 15 employees and 11 of us are PhD geoscientists," he said, offering technical assistance and noting TLS had met with federal land managers and local staff. Commissioners asked staff to gather model ordinances and potential ordinance targets and to bring back legal recommendations for draft language.
