The county Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission will hold a joint public hearing on October 17, 2023, to discuss new rules on where the server farms that power the internet should be located in the county. Data centers are built on large campuses that take up acres of land and use excessive amounts of electricity to power the servers, and water to cool them.
The county has seen three major applications for new data center complexes -- one by Stafford Hospital, one near the county landfill on Eskimo Hill Road, and another in Falmouth. The county Planning Commission, along with data center operators like Amazon Web Services and Stack Infrastructure, spent three months examining where data centers should go.
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