Across Connecticut, anxiety fuels data center backlash
Local officials in many parts of Connecticut are not waiting for the national data center boom to come to them.Earlier this month, for example, the East Lyme Zoning Commission voted unanimously to ado Local officials in Connecticut are increasingly concerned about the potential for a national data center boom due to environmental concerns. The East Lyme Zoning Commission recently voted unanimously to impose an indefinite ban on all data center development, one of the first blanket prohibitions in Connecticut. This decision came before any plans were announced for a data center in the coastal town. East Lyme is one of around half a dozen municipalities that have taken preemptive action to block data center developments, either through temporary moratoriums or a complete ban. Subodha Kumar, a professor of statistics, operations and data science at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, said that in Connecticut, political pushback has formed well ahead of actual development. The Department of Economic and Community Development overseeing the data center tax incentive program has reviewed only two applications since it began and none this year.
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Local officials in many parts of Connecticut are not waiting for the national data center boom to come to them.
Earlier this month, for example, the East Lyme Zoning Commission voted unanimously to a... [18484 symbols]
