[Opinion] IN BRIEFPlanning Board Seeks Public Opinion on Data Centers - McPherson Sentinel
André Carrel says new rules should be built into the Official Community Plan before councils try to zone data centres.
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IN BRIEFPlanning board seeks public opinion on data centers - McPherson Sentinel
The McPherson County Planning Board will take comments from the public for regulation of data centers, battery energy storage facilities, and hydrogen energy facilities, at… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
Data centres require close regulation
City council’s decision to explore the feasibility and implications of regulating data centres as a separate and distinct class of land use is commendable. If anything, council’s observation that data centres “have characteristics that may have impacts materially different from any conventional light-industrial uses,” is an understatement. ‘Data centre’ is an umbrella term embracing a wide range of electronic data related operations such as cryp…
Data centers require environmental planning that takes into account the capacity of the territory, water availability, energy consumption and biodiversity conservation, as the cloud has a physical footprint that demands huge amounts of energy and water, and can generate impacts on high environmental value spaces The cloud is not in the air. Behind every search on the internet, every artificial intelligence application or every digital service th…
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