Coffee County, Tennessee, has updated its zoning rules to keep farmland separate from data-center development.
In a unanimous 16-0 vote, county commissioners closed a zoning gap that might have allowed large-scale digital facilities onto agricultural land.
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An Instagram post from Localize (@localizefood.app), citing the Tullahoma News, said Coffee County commissioners voted 16-0 to block data centers and crypto mines from agricultural zones. The result was to steer those operations away from farmland and into a much smaller industrial area.
“A Tennessee county just zoned data centers out of every acre of its farmland,” the caption read.
The vote set a clear countywide limit around agricultural land. That means such projects remain possible in the county, but only inside a single industrial district that had already been designated for quarries and adult businesses…