Columbia County commissioners approved a zoning ordinance to govern data centers, over residents’ objections to both the ordinance and a massive development project that the new law anticipates.
The board’s unanimous vote Tuesday enacts limits on data centers intended in part to limit their impact on surrounding property.
But residents in rural Columbia County who prefer peace and quiet say they’ll get neither if plans advance to bring an 8.1-million-square-foot data center to White Oak Business Park near the Interstate 20 exit at Appling-Harlem Road…