Alamance County’s leaders have decided to give themselves a year-long breather from data center proposals in order to draft a set of regulations for these high-tech leviathans outside the county’s cities and towns.
The county’s board of commissioners voted 5-to-0 in favor of this 12-month moratorium on Monday after a protracted public hearing that drew repeated demands from the audience for a “pause” of one to two years in new data centers within unincorporated parts of the county.
Although the county’s rural reaches have yet to attract so much as a whiff of this sort of facility, the proliferation of data centers in other parts of the state has prompted a growing number of jurisdictions to pump the brakes on the construction of large server farms…