Perris’ City Council voted on Tuesday night to direct planning staff to draft an ordinance to ban data centers citywide. The decision comes as cities across Southern California initiate their own bans and moratoriums.
Councilman David Starr Rabb asked planning staff in January to research data centers. Perris’ planning services department provided an overview during the meeting of the different types of data centers, including their size, purpose, potential land use designations, economic benefits and environmental impacts.
Rafael Garcia, a planner with the Perris Planning Division, said most of Riverside County’s data centers are small-scale facilities of less than 40,000 square feet that provide data services to regional businesses. According to Garcia and city staff reports, Riverside County does not currently have any large-scale data centers…