The developer of a proposed $3.1 billion data center in St. Louis, Missouri, has sued a board that handles city zoning after the five-member panel required the company to supply renewable energy on-site.
David Lambiaso, a partner at data center developer TerraWatt, claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the St. Louis Board of Adjustment imposed illegal conditions when it upheld a permit for the 120-megawatt facility in July, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which reported on the filing.
The lawsuit argues that requiring his company to supply a minimum of 2.4 megawatts of renewable energy at the data center exceeds the board’s authority…