HENRIETTA, N.Y. — The Town of Henrietta is holding a public hearing on Wednesday to discuss proposed restrictions on where large-scale data centers can be built.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at Henrietta Town Hall. The town board will discuss proposed zoning restrictions on data centers, which are increasingly being built to keep up with the massive amount of computing power that AI chatbots need. The meeting comes amid a one-year statewide pause on large data center construction that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed.
As News10NBC has covered, data centers have raised criticism because they require large amounts of energy to power thousands of computer servers, and large amounts of water to keep the computers cool. Henrietta Town Supervisor Stephen Schultz has said he’s not against data centers, but wants them to be built sustainably…