Data Centers

There are no planned data centers in Hillsborough County right now, but the city of Auburndale in Polk County has one in the works.

Commissioner Gabriella Passidomo Smith said that a new state law “made it clear that large load customers must bear their own full cost of service without shifting those costs to other ratepayers.”

Wednesday's vote came a day after commissioners killed a similar rezoning request for the same project with a split vote.

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According to Planning Director Derek Kilborn, data centers are neither permitted uses nor eligible for special exceptions.

County staff will use the year to consider things like the consumption of electricity and water, noise abatement, environmental impacts, and defining data center uses.

The law mandates that Florida utility customers won’t bear the additional costs brought by new large scale data centers.

Secret meetings, messy voting procedures, and an undisclosed project beneficiary: transparency concerns about a controversial artificial intelligence data center project in Western Palm Beach County unnerved opponents. A look back at the land's complicated history tells where the trust gap came from.

Orange County is on track to join the growing list of Florida counties and municipalities hitting the brakes on water- and power-guzzling AI data centers.

Grassroots opposition to AI infrastructure because of its huge demand on local water supplies and the electrical grid had been growing more pointed since early this year, turning into an issue David Jolly and the Florida Democratic Party are using to attack Republican Byron Donalds in the Florida gubernatorial race.