Edgerton Voters to Decide on 10-Year Data Center Ban
Edgerton residents will vote in a March special election to determine if the city should implement a 10-year ban on new data centers.
Voters in Edgerton, Kansas, will decide in a March special election whether to implement a 10-year ban on new data centers within the city. The Edgerton City Council approved the election after residents launched a petition drive to block further industrial expansion of this type.
The vote comes as DAMAC Digital proposes an $860 million project to convert an empty warehouse into a 400,000-square-foot data center. The facility is designed to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing services.
Edgerton, a community of approximately 1,700 residents, has a history of using the petition process to force public votes on infrastructure projects. Previous efforts have targeted the implementation of battery energy storage systems.
