Following a handful of other Bay Area cities, the Oakland City Council approved a 45-day moratorium on new data center projects Tuesday.<\/p>\n
With a 7-0 vote, the council approved Councilmember Carroll Fife\u2019s proposal to enact a pause on all approvals related to data center development so the city can draft regulations that take into account potential impacts of such projects, according to a report from Fife\u2019s office that was presented to councilmembers.<\/p>\n
\u201cData centers<\/a> differ from traditional office, industrial, warehouse, or research and development uses because they consume significant amounts of electrical power and water; require extensive mechanical cooling infrastructure; rely upon diesel or other fossil-fueled backup generators, battery energy storage systems, transformers, and fuel storage; generate persistent noise, heat, and vibration; and are associated with increased energy and water consumption, among other environmental impacts<\/a>,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n The goal of the moratorium is to give city staff and council members some time to draft planning and land-use regulations that take such impacts into account.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s vote follows similar moves by other Bay Area cities, including San Francisco<\/a>, Gilroy, Richmond and Oakley. Hayward is also considering its own data center moratorium.<\/p>\n The post Oakland becomes latest in Bay Area to enact moratorium on new data centers<\/a> appeared first on Local News Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a handful of other Bay Area cities, the Oakland City Council approved a 45-day moratorium on new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-490118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}