Ed Driggs
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13,582 appearances
62 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
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They had some basis for considering data centers before, and now they introduce these regulations.
Could that be interpreted as a down zoning of whatever they were using prior?
All right.
I'm interested that there is nothing in the pipeline at all.
With this boom going on in AI and data center demand everywhere and the projections of growth, why isn't there anything in the works that we should be thinking about?
Exactly.
What does the moratorium, when does the moratorium bite?
There are different stages in this process.
We have a moratorium, and that says that for this period of time, we will not do what?
Approving or accepting applications?
Right.
If there's a data center under construction and they're subject to site plan inspections, would anything that's currently underway get stopped?
So on the legal point,
Our ability to give land use permission cannot be changed according to state law.
But can we come up with new policies about the kind of pollution impacts you can make and so on, but they couldn't be part of the decision process about the land use?
Is that the way that would work?
Because those would then also be applicable to existing or other facilities.
And we do have latitude to make policies like that.
But I think the critical thing is that the state should understand we do not intend to get really tricky about our compliance with state law.
We're considering what policies are available to us away from the approval of a rezoning
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