CHICAGO–State lawmakers and local governments responding to the national backlash against data centers should proceed cautiously before imposing moratoriums, a panel of legislators, construction trade representatives, and utility executives warned during the first day of the July 27–29 National Conference of State Legislatures’ (NCSL) 51st annual summit.
“Data centers are ubiquitous to everything we do in life, like, period–full stop. They are not going away,” Washington state Rep. April Berg said. “There’s no world that we’re going to live in, that or our kids are going to live in, or our grandkids are going to live in, that will not include data centers.”…
Lawmakers, Local Governments Warned Against Adopting Blanket Data Center Bans, Moratoriums
