The Lafayette City Council voted to approve an 18-month moratorium on data centers, echoing decisions in other Colorado communities as policymakers scramble to create regulations around the energy-hungry infrastructure.
City officials said imposing the temporary ban on applications for building new data centers will give them more time to consider permanent regulations and to research potential impacts on Lafayette’s resources and the environment.
“We don’t know what we don’t know, and we’ve got to get into it,” Councilmember Annmarie Jensen said at a meeting this month, where the City Council voted in favor of the ban…