Overview
- County commissioners voted 5-1 Wednesday night to deny the developer’s request to expand Project Tango into a hyperscale AI data center after a nearly 12-hour public hearing.
- The denial was made without prejudice, which means the developer can revise the plan and resubmit it later under the county’s permitting process.
- Existing entitlements granted in 2016 for more than two million square feet of warehouse and smaller data-center buildings remain valid so some construction could still proceed.
- County leaders have placed a temporary moratorium on large data-center applications and will draft new regulations to address concerns about water use, power demand, heat and noise.
- Hundreds of residents, teachers and local groups drove the opposition by raising risks to nearby wells, Saddle View Elementary School and neighborhood quality of life, reflecting a wider national trend of communities challenging large AI data centers.