The Lake County Board voted to pursue a temporary data center moratorium in unincorporated Lake County during its meeting earlier this month. The T5 Data Center Campus in Grayslake, which was approved last year by the Grayslake Village Board but has not been built (rendering pictured), has sparked criticism and caused debate about data centers in Lake County. | Provided Photo
By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner
The county board has voted to temporarily ban new data centers from being approved in unincorporated Lake County, with one board member saying they bring “serious concerns” and a regulatory review is needed.
The Lake County Board approved a resolution earlier this month to hold a public hearing related to data centers in unincorporated Lake County.
The resolution directs the Lake County Zoning Board of Appeals to conduct the hearing, which will be used to discuss proposed amendments to the Code of Ordinances that would both define data centers and establish an eight-month temporary moratorium on data centers.
Data centers are not currently specifically defined or regulated under county ordinances.
The county board’s action earlier this month did not actually impose the eight-month moratorium, which will take several weeks to several months to complete the actual text amendment process.
The board’s approval of the resolution did authorize the Lake County Planning, Building and Development department to pause review of data center applications for a period of up to four months.
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