The City of Pasco Council, Washington, has approved a six-month moratorium on development permits for data center construction by a unanimous vote of 6-0, to come in with immediate effect.
Pasco is a municipality in Franklin County in the southwest of Washington State.
– City of Pasco
The municipal council had previously discussed imposing a six-month moratorium to allow time to develop data center-specific land-use regulations as a result of concerns around data center demand for energy, land, and cooling infrastructure.
The moratorium will pause development and construction of new data centers, blockchain computing facilities, AI computing facilities, cryptocurrency mining facilities, and other high-density computing facilities.
