Corunna City Council Advances Data Center Ordinance Proposal

Corunna City Council advances data center ordinance proposal

CORUNNA — The Corunna City Council Monday, July 20 took preliminary action to ensure it has parameters in place should a prospective developer want to bring a data center to city limits.

Jersey City Moves to Join Municipalities Statewide in Banning AI Data Centers

Mayor James Solomon and the Jersey City Municipal Council have introduced an ordinance that would ban data centers from operating on industrial land. If the ordinance is adopted, Jersey City would join two dozen other New Jersey municipalities that have already instituted such bans. Ordinance 26-057 was introduced after months of increased national demand from […]

Data center ordinance awaits Board action

By Randy Bell        More than three months after Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a $1 billion data center investment in Clinton, a proposed City ordinance to deal with any similar facilities in the future has been drafted, but the Board of Aldermen has not yet discussed the proposal or voted on it.    In May, the Board approved changes to Clinton’s existing zoning ordinance to specify that data centers may be allowed only as a conditional u…