JANESVILLE – If some residents and Rock County supervisors seek to implement a countywide moratorium on data centers, their goal might not be a quick or easy one to reach.
In a long and meandering discussion that rolled out through a two-hour Rock County Board meeting this week, Rock County Planning Director Andrew Baker and others explained the county’s somewhat unique position: It lacks overarching zoning authority on land use.
This is the short answer to a push by county board members including Supervisor Philip Gorman, a town of Beloit resident, to enact an 18-month county moratorium on data centers, alongside other measures that would slow development conversations on the mega projects…