Commissioners add data-center noise-control request to legislative agenda
Commissioner Hale asked legislators to consider giving counties noise-control authority after citing continuous data-center noise; the court voted to add a Collin County noise authority resolution to the 90th legislative agenda.
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Commissioner Hale told the court he added a Collin County noise-control resolution to the 90th legislative agenda to ask state lawmakers to consider giving counties authority similar to city noise ordinances. Hale said data centers in unincorporated areas can emit continuous sound that travels into adjacent cities and that current state penal-code thresholds (85 decibels) are too high to address persistent noise issues.
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