AI Data Center Moratorium Text Amendment
Description
A one-year moratorium on large-scale AI data centers while staff drafts data-center-specific land use rules. Recommended approval, 4-0.
Impact summary
Blocks new large AI data centers for a year while permanent rules are developed with public input.
Applicant
- Name
- City of Panama City
At a glance
- Hearings
- 1
- Public comments
- 3
- Total mentions
- 1
Last vote · Planning Commission
A recommendation, not a final decision. The council decides next.
Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Sep 14, 2026.
Meeting timeline (1)
Related issues (2)
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One-year moratorium on large-scale data centers
Large-scale data centers are now on a one-year pause while the city rewrites its rules. A veteran who spoke urged denial, warning it deters investment; the Commission passed it unanimously anyway.
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