The Town of Holly Springs has approved a one-year pause on data center development in the town. During a Town Council meeting on Tuesday, Holly Springs officials voted to approve the moratorium for one year.

Local Impact

Other local leaders across more than 10 counties in central North Carolina are having similar discussions over data centers. Wake, Chatham, and Orange counties have each put one-year pauses in place. The City of Durham extended its initial 60-day pause by 10 months at its council meeting on Monday.

Data center developers are increasingly running into hostility and facing rejection from municipal boards that oversee zoning applications or construction permits. Large-scale data centers use massive amounts of water to operate. In Person County, clean-water advocates have raised skepticism about Microsoft’s plans for a new data center.

Original reporting: WRAL Raleigh — read the source article.