Policies & Impacts

More Local Governments Across America Move to Pause Data Centers

Local officials in Kansas, Indiana, Ohio, and Maryland are the latest to place moratoriums on data centers to gather more information on their effects.
Google LogoMark Us Preferred on Google
More Local Governments Across America Move to Pause Data Centers
In an aerial view, an Amazon Web Services data center is seen in Stone Ridge, Va., on July 17, 2024. Nathan Howard/Getty Images
Bruce Parker
|Updated:
0:00

Local governments increasingly are halting data center development to protect farmland and research their effects on land and water resources.

Last week, Saline County, Kansas, joined a handful of other local jurisdictions in pressing the pause button on data centers.

Google LogoMark Us Preferred on Google
Bruce Parker
Bruce Parker
Author
Bruce Parker is a business reporter for The Epoch Times. He has more than 20 years' experience as a journalist covering business and state government topics for Watchdog.org (now TheCenterSquare.com), Cengage Publishing, and, most recently, American Coal Ash Association's ASH At Work Magazine.