Resident proposes agrivoltaics, urges moratorium on data centers
At public comment, Tanner Nielsen proposed agrivoltaics—elevated solar panels allowing grazing—as a low-impact revenue option for Rangely and urged transparency, recusal protocols and a temporary moratorium on data center development pending long-term studies.
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At the public-comment period, resident Tanner Nielsen urged the council to consider agrivoltaics—solar panels elevated to allow sheep or cattle to graze beneath—as an alternative revenue source to data centers and recommended stricter transparency protocols for data-center proposals. "I would even go further and push for a moratorium on all data centers, and development until we have long term ecological, financial, or demographic studies," Nielsen said while distributing slides on agrivoltaic models.
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