Allegheny County Council unanimously bans large data centers on county property

Data centers drawing 25 megawatts or more of electricity are no longer allowed on Allegheny County-owned property.

County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to prohibit the construction, operation or establishment of large-scale data centers — and the infrastructure built specifically to support them — on county-owned land and in county-owned buildings.

The measure does not restrict data centers on privately owned property, leaving those land-use decisions to individual municipalities…

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