Cascade Township leaders have approved a temporary moratorium on data centers, pausing permits, licenses and approvals for six months — with a six-month extension if necessary — while officials gather more information and consider updates to the township’s zoning ordinance.
The Cascade Township Board voted Wednesday night to approve the measure. The move comes as a growing conversation about data center development has spread across West Michigan, with some neighbors saying the township lacked specific protections against them.
“To actually see what has been done and where there are issues that have come up in other states, before we allow them in our township, would be a good thing,” one Cascade neighbor said…