If the Dane County Board of Supervisors this week OKs a moratorium on hyperscale data centers, the fast-growing county around Madison will become the latest member of a quickly growing cadre of Wisconsin communities seeking to hit pause on the developments.
The county’s zoning and land regulation committee unanimously passed the 18-month moratorium in a May 26 vote, with the full board set to consider the proposal this week.
Dane County Board Chair Patrick Miles said the moratorium would give an advisory committee set up in the fall time to complete research into the benefits and pitfalls of authorizing the developments for the more than two dozen communities under the county’s zoning authority…