Kentucky’s two largest cities took action Tuesday afternoon to begin considering zoning regulations to control — or potentially ban — power-intensive hyperscale data centers.
On Tuesday, Lexington Urban County Council suspended legislative rules to enact a moratorium on applications for data centers through Oct. 31 and work on zoning amendments to regulate data centers.
Lexington council member Emma Curtis told the Lantern concern surrounding a data center developer buying a local data center property, with intentions to expand the data center’s footprint, led to the council swiftly passing the moratorium…