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Zoning authority could be the answer to data center woes, as San Marcos becomes the first Texas city to ban data centers

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  • San Marcos councilors have approved new zoning laws that ban data centers
  • The same zoning laws could be used by 352 cities across Texas
  • But there are a few hurdles to jump through before anyone can celebrate

San Marcos may have just answered the main question surrounding data center construction in US cities - how do we prevent it?

Well, it turns out that simply defining what a data center is and then excluding their construction from zoning codes may have been the answer cities across the US have been looking for.

That is exactly what the San Marcos City Council did, voting 4-3 on June 16 to ban the construction of data centers within the city limits on the basis that they would deprive the local population of water and energy resources.

San Marcos bans data centers

The San Marcos City Council feared that new data centers would encroach...

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