Clackamas County commissioners have set in motion a temporary ban on new data centers, overriding a staff recommendation to wait for the Legislature and aligning the Portland-area county with a growing bloc of Oregon jurisdictions moving to slow the power-hungry industry. The Clackamas County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 11 directed county staff to begin drafting a moratorium that would freeze new data center development and block new land use…
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