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Board discusses SEIRPC contract to draft data-center ordinance amid public concern about lifting moratorium
Summary
Supervisors reviewed a contract (not to exceed $12,000) with SEIRPC to draft a data-center ordinance; public commenters urged keeping the moratorium in place, citing energy and water concerns and unfulfilled job promises.
The Board held a work session after the regular meeting to review a proposed contract with the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission (SEIRPC) to draft an ordinance regulating data centers. Land Use Administrator Zachary James said the process would follow the county's prior wind-and-solar ordinance work; the contract lists services at a cost not to exceed $12,000 and copies were provided to members of the public present.
Earlier during public input resident Jean Ewinger urged the Board not to rescind the county moratorium on data centers, arguing that such facilities can "use as much power as 100,000 households" and could strain the regional aquifer and fail to deliver the employment promised. The Board discussed the legal and factual groundwork for any regulatory framework and directed staff to continue the ordinance-development process with SEIRPC in a manner similar to prior zoning work.
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