Waterville Township OKs 12-Month Data Center Moratorium
Citing concerns about the drain on the electrical grid and water supply, as well as the impact on quality of life, Waterville Township trustees voted unanimously on Dec. 17 to impose a 12-month moratorium on issuing permits for data centers.
“We don’t want to be behind the eight ball, scrambling to come up with conditions,” explained trustee Julie Theroux, who introduced the moratorium language as written by the Columbus law firm hired by trustees.
The year-long moratorium will give trustees a chance to consider the pros and cons and understand possible impacts in order to better prepare conditions if a data center developer applied for a conditional use permit to operate on agriculturally-zoned land…