An Alachua City Commission meeting Monday erupted into chaos after a passionate discussion about data center development in the city.
At the beginning of the discussion on data centers, Alachua Vice Mayor Jennifer Ringersen made a motion for a 12-month pause on all data center development within the city, meaning no new permits would be issued to developers looking to build data centers during that time.
The purpose was to give the city time to study the impact of data centers and enact rules and regulations to govern them, she said…