A City Planner's Perspective on Data Center Bans
AndyMasley · x · 2026-07-08
The author had an unstructured conversation with Curtis, a friend and former city planner for Holyoke (a city that recently passed a data center construction ban), discussing how to approach data center development. The author notes that the perspective of city planners is often missing from the data center debate.
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