Plans for a data center in Montana have been dropped ahead of a potential moratorium.Data center developer Krambu had been looking to develop a facility at the Bonner Mill Industrial Park in Bonner, Missoula County.The project, located at 9314 Bonner Mill Road, could have totaled up to 29MW at full build-out, with the first phase offering 7MW.The company was looking to place the data center within the former United Forest Products’ Edge Prefinished building along Highway 200, which closed last year after just five years.However, Mike Heisey of Bonner Property Development, LLC, which owns the building the proposed data center would be hosted in, has dropped his support for the project."After hearing from the public and understanding what the concerns are, I have decided to withdraw my signature from the Krambu special exception application,” Heisey told the county, which published his comments in an announcement this week. “Bonner Property will not be moving forward with the data center proposed by them. We appreciate the public's feedback and will continue to actively pursue clients for the mill site."Missoula County said the news means the project will not move forward.Krambu is yet to comment on the news.Missoula County has been considering the adoption of a moratorium on data centers while the county develops updated zoning regulations to mitigate the potential impacts of such developments.“I was surprised they decided to withdraw their application,” county planner Jennie Dixon told the Missoula Current. “I was encouraging them to stay the course, because wouldn't it be fantastic if Missoula could be the poster child for how to do a data center the right way? That's our goal with this interim pause, to figure out how to be the example for the country on how to do these the right way.”First announced last year, a Change.org petition against the development has gathered more than 48,800 signatures at time of writing. Missoula County’s population totals around 118,000, according to the 2020 census.Founded in 2017, California-based Krambu says it offers Nvidia-based GPU hardware and servers from Supermicro, in addition to colocation and cloud services. It says it can offer 250kW rack densities via direct-to-chip liquid cooling.On its website, Krambu lists a 10MW, 8,000 sq ft (745 sqm) site in the Newport area of Spokane, Washington, that is ‘available now’ and used by the company for R&D, as well as a 6MW air-cooled site in Oregon.As well as the abandoned Montana development, the company also lists plans for a 30MW greenfield project in Pennsylvania, though few details are available. Announced last year, the company is partnering with Paradox Data on the project.Future pipeline projects reportedly include a 100MW development in Montana, a 299MW project in Ohio, a 400MW project in Illinois, and three projects (18.5MW, 95.7MW, and 200MW) across Alberta, Canada.