GEORGETOWN, Ky. (LEX NEWS) — The City of Georgetown has extended its data center moratorium through June 30, 2027, following a vote by city council during Monday's meeting. The city has also started drafting legislation that would ban hyperscale data centers citywide. Georgetown's…
The Grand Junction City Council voted 6-0 on Wednesday night in favor of an ordinance that blocks development and pre-development steps for large data centers in town for up to the next year, as municipal officials rush to address the buildings…
According to the Coloradoan, l https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/fort-collins/2026/10/21/fort-collins-city-council-oks-6-month-data-center-moratorium/92358161007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z114501p119850l003750c119850e114250v114501d--30--b--30--&gca-ft=155&gca-ds=sophi The Fort Collins City Council voted unanimously on October 20th to enact a temporary six-month moratorium on new data center developments. According to the Coloradoan, local officials requested the pause to give planners time to…
My Opa, a Vietnam War veteran who celebrated his 84th birthday this year, shared a similar sentiment years ago when I interviewed him for a video project about Durham. “Progress is that a city will change,” he told me. I have…
In light of recent consideration by a local developer to construct a 400-megawatt data center at the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command near Old Town, Mayor Todd Gloria Friday signed a moratorium on any such facility in the city. The…
The Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Trustees postponed several pending matters and heard a resident’s concerns about streetlights during a relatively brief meeting Wednesday, Oct. 21 while announcing an upcoming Halloween celebration on Bond Street. Mayor Ted Rosen and…
A group of right-wing nuts tried a few weeks back to intimidate a political gathering at the public library in downtown Winston-Salem. Local activists wasted no time massing outside the Forsyth County Public Library to act as a counterweight to…
Local authorities are underfunded and ill-equipped to deliver essential services, prompting a lawmaker to push for a legally binding funding model from the national budget. Swapo member of parliament and former Kunene governor Marius Sheya has given notice of a…
Michigan City residents continued to voice their concerns about data centers as the city council mulled a resolution looking at a moratorium on the hyperscale facilities. The ordinance, if passed, would put a moratorium on any new data center developments…
Two ordinances related to Defiance’s data center debate were approved by city council Tuesday, one placing a related ballot issue before voters this year, the other establishing a moratorium. In all, council handled four legislative items during its regular session.
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