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Recent data-centers coverage from The Sidekick network, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
Staff presented Ordinance 1594 as an urgency measure to give the city time to study potential public-health effects and land-use rules, but the available meeting record does not clearly establish the ordinance’s final status.
The city is pausing new data center proposals for 45 days as staff and the city attorney draft more specific local standards for the use.
The City Council’s Sept. 1 agenda includes Bill No. 1061-C.S., an urgency ordinance moratorium on data centers, but the agenda does not show what happened at the meeting.
Council members discussed a possible short-term moratorium while staff studies how the city should regulate data centers.
AB 1577 advanced 48-11 as lawmakers also moved companion bills on data centers’ water use and utility impacts.
June 22 meeting materials show the commission approving or advancing a cluster of large demonstrations aimed at grid controls, load planning and industrial decarbonization.
The June 22 agenda includes an EPIC grant for a project to test a solid-state transformer and flexible-load tool for grid-connected data centers.