{"id":832067,"date":"2026-07-28T19:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832067\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:50:20","slug":"councillors-in-rural-county-bordering-calgary-vote-to-pause-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832067\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillors in rural county bordering Calgary vote to pause data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/295C66BC0238A65F2E838ADA3B3CE47A5257104FF723BF6B7023C0C212772E6C\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fcp_finance_889%2F8bd3c8784b75e616c3705460b918ff30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-j98iil loader\"\/><\/a> Fans that are part of a cooling system are seen on the roof of a data center, Monday, April 27, 2026, in Hillsboro, Ore. (AP Photo\/Jenny Kane) &#8211; The Canadian Press           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">BALZAC \u2014 Councillors in a rural municipality bordering Calgary have voted to temporarily pause new data centre proposals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The motion passed last week at a Rocky View County council meeting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The moratorium is to be in place until the county establishes regulations for such developments, expected in the coming months.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Coun. Alison Whiting, who brought forward the motion, told the meeting that the data centre landscape has changed dramatically over the last year, and the county can get questions answered during the pause.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Rocky View County forms a horseshoe around Calgary&#8217;s northern, eastern and western limits, and it has been attracting strong interest from data centre developers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The municipality has approved zoning for a Beacon AI Centers project in the hamlet of Indus, but last year council voted down another proposal from Kineticor near Balzac.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 28, 2026.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The Canadian Press  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans that are part of a cooling system are seen on the roof of a data center, Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[290556,49,2798,48,14372,290555,944],"class_list":["post-832067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-alison-whiting","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-data-center","tag-rural-municipality","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}