Some communities in the Mountain West are saying ‘yes’ to new data centers, while others are hitting the brakes.
In Denver, there’s now a one-year moratorium on data center development. City councilors also apologized for allowing a data center to be built in an already polluted neighborhood.
Other communities nationwide, from Oklahoma City to Huron County, Michigan, have also recently pressed pause on data center development. In recent years, Kootenai County in Idaho, plus Logan and Larimer counties in Colorado, have joined the line up…