(Greenfield, IA) — The Adair County Supervisors are in the middle of considering an ordinance on regulating data centers and at Tuesday’s meetings they heard from representatives from Mid American Energy.
Currently, the power company operates 36 different data centers and they said there are some common mis-conceptions about them. One is that they would increase the utility rates of residents nearby
It was suggested by the supervisors that they could put a cap on data centers power usage but the Mid American Energy reps says that would be a warning sign for any data center to come to the county
Other concerns were water consumption and noise issues with data centers. Supervisor Jodie Hoadley seemed to think that in general, data centers in Adair County will be a hard sell
It was agreed that there is a lot of misinformation about data centers and the discussion with the Mid American Energy representatives helped in that regard.
The Supervisors have another public hearing on data centers on December 2 at 6:30 pm at the Adair County Courthouse.
