This story was originally published by Kentucky Lantern, an outlet of States Newsroom.
Woodford County has approved an ordinance this week to permanently ban data center construction, the first Kentucky county to do so and among a handful of local governments across the country to take such a strict stance against the power-intensive operations.
The ordinance passed by the Woodford County Fiscal Court on Tuesday bans the construction of landfills, data centers and large battery storage systems — which are often paired with hyperscale data centers — within the county…