New Castle County Council tabled an ordinance at its Nov. 18 meeting seeking to regulate data centers.
Several Councilmembers raised concerns about the bill’s constitutionality, particularly relating to sections permitting retroactivity. If passed with that language, Project Washington, a proposed 6 million square-foot data center, would have to follow rules that didn’t exist when its developers first began planning.
The county’s Land Use Committee meeting earlier this month saw heated debate on Councilmember David Carter’s ordinance, which seeks to regulate data centers in numerous ways, including requiring they be built at least 1 thousand feet from residential communities and abide by water use rules…