Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and 10 alders are moving to place a year-long moratorium on zoning certificates for data centers. If adopted, the moratorium would be a first-of-its-kind move for the state.
Rhodes-Conway tells Isthmus that the proposed moratorium, which she plans to introduce tonight at the city council, is needed because the city does not “have a defined use of ‘data center’ in our zoning code right now.”
Some smaller communities around the country have enacted moratoriums on data center construction, but, if adopted, Madison would be one of the nation’s largest cities to enact such a ban. The moratorium could be lifted sooner pending enactment of a zoning ordinance that would address data center properties…