The Reno County Commission scheduled possible action on data centers for a Tuesday, June 9, meeting after hearing from seven county residents during public comment during the commission’s Wednesday, May 27, meeting. Susie Ratzlaff of rural Buhler presented the commission with a petition she said had 875 signatures requesting that Reno County establish a moratorium on data center and battery energy storage system (BESS) development. She also cited a national poll conducted by Gallup in March in which 71% of respondents said they opposed the construction of data centers for artificial intelligence in their area. Ratzlaff asked commissioners to give the Reno County Planning Commission direction to begin work on regulating data center and BESS development.
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