(The Center Square) – Dane County in Wisconsin is stopping the clock on large artificial intelligence data center projects.
The county board last week approved an 18-month pause on large data center projects. That pause involves a stop order on all zoning permits for large projects for the next 18 months.
“Following review by the Zoning and Land Regulation Committee, the resolution was narrowed to apply only to hyperscale data centers, defined as facilities that use at least 5,000 servers and occupy at least 10,000 square feet of floor space,” the county said in a statement. “Smaller data center infrastructure is not affected.”…