Louisville is debating the future of data centers right now.

Will there be a moratorium for how long and what lasting regulations will come out of City Hall?

Our June Lefler has more on that.

Ten public meetings into the topic of data centers and Louisville.

Billions are still outspoken as ever.

If the data centers are utilizing a lot of our resources, our infrastructure is already underwater.

They want the damn data center.

They are in that area and a long time long road.

We can't even get a grocery store.

All of our Metro Council representatives who decided to go along with especially the hyperscale data center, might as well resign your positions.

This was the final public meeting on proposed data center regulations.

A draft came out in June.

And I understand the Planning Commission is trying to revise the, planning code or the land development code, but the regulations still don't go far enough.

The buffer zone is woefully insufficient.

It's only 500ft away from the structures.

That's nowhere near enough.

They still aren't making these companies, bring their own power.

And so today, I was watching someone talk about this.

It would be as if you had the biggest appliance ever that you could even imagine.

And you just took it and plugged it into your.

Somebody plugged it into your kitchen.

A zoning board of the mayor's appointees has held these public hearings.

I think generally what they have probably been doing is, you know, as people have come up and made comments about the different testimony, or provided their testimony, then they've kind of made notes about, you know, what have been some of the common themes.

And so, it'll be up to the planning Commission to, determine if they want to make any amendments to the draft that is, been proposed to them.

However, these regulations will not stop a project that's already been approved.

The proposed regulations ban hyperscale data centers larger than 500,000ft².

Despite that, data center three times that size is set to be built in southwest Louisville, where residents have long lived with industrial pollution.

Forcing a data center into our backyards.

And then justifying it with the fact that the area is already zoned for heavy industrial use is a textbook case of environmental racism.

That's right.

Our neighborhoods should not be treated as a default sacrifice for corporate data processing.

Louisville City Council is also considering a 180 day data center moratorium, which could be voted on Thursday.

For Kentucky edition, I'm Jen Leffler.

Data centers have gotten political in Louisville.

Mayor Craig Greenberg has caught the ire of activists for his ties to a data center developer.

Recently, the mayor has come out in support of a moratorium and regulations.