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The debate over how to implement regulations for data centers continued at the City Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday (March 24) as some residents pushed for a permanent ban. Commissioners voted to defer making a zoning recommendation to the New Orleans City Council until late April.
City residents began urging local officials to pass regulations on data centers after talks of a potential development in New Orleans East. At its Jan. 28 meeting, the City Council passed a temporary zoning ordinance to ban data centers for a year, and asked the planning commission to recommend new zoning rules for the controversial tech projects in the future…