Data centers and large loads items in Chatham County, between 12 Oct 2025 and 12 Oct 2026
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| Data centers and large loads | 44 |
| Environment and sustainability | 20 |
| Zoning text amendment | 9 |
| Water and sewer | 5 |
| Litigation and settlements | 2 |
| Tax rate and revaluation | 2 |
| Economic development incentives | 1 |
| Intergovernmental agreements | 1 |
| Land conversion and large development | 1 |
| Parks and recreation | 1 |
| Schools and education | 1 |
| State legislative agenda | 1 |
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Old Business 1 Update: Data Centers and Judge's RulingAn update on data centers and a judge's ruling, listed with two questions: what the county's response is, and the status of draft data center regulations. The agenda does not name the case.
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Time reserved for further discussion of the data center text amendments.
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The board continues the line-by-line review of the data center redline from Section D, noise mitigation standards.
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An update on the committee's meeting with Duke Energy about data centers, and what it should do next.
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The chair set out the task: specific ordinance changes that address the concerns raised about data centers, built from public comment and the board's own research, within the commissioners' direction to regulate rather than prohibit.Procedural Data centers and large loads
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Two changes to how data centers are permitted: replacing the special use permit with a conditional use permit, and ending by-right approval where public water and sewer are used.Both sent forward, 7-2, and referred to the county attorney for a second opinion on Senate Bill 382
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A line-by-line review of the redline draft, covering definitions, hazardous materials, generator testing and noise.Reached Section D, noise mitigation standards; continued to 8 September
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The committee's recommendation for an extended moratorium on data centers, submitted to the planning department.Reported as submitted
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Discussion item Data centers and large loads
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Staff set out two timelines, a longer one finishing recommendations for potential approval in January and a shorter one, and reviewed the legal constraints.
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Speakers asked the board to recommend prohibiting data centers outright rather than regulating them.Public hearing Data centers and large loads
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VII.1 Board Discussion: NoiseWhether to write new noise limits for data centers or keep the county's existing ordinance, and how to handle low-frequency sound and infrasound.A motion to leave the dBA standards as written failed 2-7
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Back-up generators, including how many hours a year they run and what tier of diesel engine they use.
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The planning board has received the committee's core principles and guidance for regulating data centers. The committee discusses revisiting the by-right permit criteria in the zoning ordinance, and what Nash, Warren and Edgecombe counties require.
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The proposed 28-mile pipeline through the county, which members connect to the data center development planned at Moncure. Affected landowners are seeking legal representation.
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Staff pointed the board at Section 17.9 of the zoning ordinance, written during the fracking moratorium, which lets the county require a special study by a jointly chosen consultant at the applicant's expense before deciding whether a use meets the ordinance's findings. Adding data centers to the uses subject to it wo…
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Four members formed a subcommittee to draft criteria and best practice for a county data center ordinance and to work with planning staff after the planning board's June 2 meeting.
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Michael Smith, president of the Economic Development Corporation, on what data centers would mean for the county's tax base.
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County staff on data centers, the uses that come with them, and their impacts.
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Discussion item Data centers and large loads
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Discussion item Data centers and large loads
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The State Energy Conference in late April, and the planning board's 12 May special meeting on data centers.Procedural Data centers and large loads
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Two members reported from the planning board meeting where staff presented on data centers: energy use, water use, environmental effects and regulatory problems. The planning board asked this committee for the principles behind its recommendation to the commissioners.
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Research assignments before the planning board's May 12 meeting: power sourcing including air emissions and emergency generators, and tax treatment including equipment assessment and state legislation. Members questioned whether the development ordinance addresses data center water and energy use at all, and noted Cha…
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The chair sets out what the board has to settle before the moratorium ends: water use, energy costs on households, and noise.Discussion item Data centers and large loads
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Several months of staff research on data centers, drawn from other county departments and community stakeholders.
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Discussion item Data centers and large loads
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Discussion item Data centers and large loads
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A joint working group on data center impacts with the environmental review committee and the planning board, with one member representing this committee.Approved unanimously
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The Town of Siler City presents its 2026 legislative priorities.
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Implementing the development ordinance under Senate Bill 382, the 16 March public hearing items, School of Government training for planning board members, and an update on the data center moratorium.
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Staff or committee report Data centers and large loads
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A resident asked the board to strengthen wastewater standards for private package treatment plants in unincorporated subdivisions, building on the county's data center moratorium approved February 11.received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
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Public hearings segment.Public hearing Data centers and large loads
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Legislative public hearing and vote on a 12-month moratorium on permitting data centers, data processing facilities, and cryptocurrency mining operations in unincorporated Chatham County, under N.C.G.S. Section 160D-107. The ordinance instituting the moratorium was adopted.approved · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Franklin Gomez Flores, seconded by Commissioner Katie Kenlan, that the Ordinance Instituting a Temporary Moratorium on the Permitting of Data Centers…Public hearing Data centers and large loads
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The moratorium, and a proposed gas drilling site and data center near the county line: what regulations apply, what the effects might be, and what controls the county has.
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received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filedProcedural Data centers and large loads
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Board votes to hold a February 11, 2026 public hearing to begin considering a moratorium on new data centers and crypto-mining facilities in the county.approved · Pass · A motion was made by Commissioner Karen Howard, seconded by Vice Chair Franklin Gomez Flores, to hold a special meeting at 4:00 p.m. on February 11, 2026 in the Historic Courthouse…Discussion item Data centers and large loads
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