The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners and staff recently started taking another look at the possibility of having a county ordinance regulating data centers that would be something other than an outright ban. To be clear, the county government’s moratorium prohibiting zoning for data centers anywhere in county’s unincorporated area, previously extended to Dec. 31, remains in effect. As indicated with the item on their Aug. 18 agenda, the elected commissioners took no action on data centers that day. But they did hear and discuss a presentation, led by county Planning & Development Director James Pope, about a potential zoning ordinance amendment on data centers. Aug. 18 was the same day that Statesboro’s mayor and City Council, by a 3-2 vote that evening, approved rezoning a 26-acre site in the edge of the city limits for a data center proposed by developers. As may need emphasizing during the ongoing controversy about this topic, the city and county governments are separate, especially in regard to their zoning and development rules. “The intent is just to continue this ongoing discussion that we’ve had about data centers,” announced county commissioners Chairman David Bennett. “When we started our moratorium almost six months ago, one of the things that we asked Mr. Pope and the planning and zoning staff to do was start looking into some zoning regulations that we could put in place to make sure that we are protecting the people of the county, but we’re making a clear…
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