{"id":232931,"date":"2026-04-15T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:39:28","slug":"nassau-county-considers-moratorium-on-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232931\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassau County considers moratorium on data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nassau County is considering putting a pause on data center development projects within its borders.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting Monday, the Nassau County Board of County Commissioners directed County Attorney Denise May to draft an ordinance that would place a one-year moratorium on the development of data centers within the unincorporated county boundary.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed moratorium comes after Miami-based <a href=\"https:\/\/nextnrg.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NextNRG<\/a> issued a news release announcing it had secured a long-term lease option on an unspecified property in <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/01\/26\/habitat-puts-nassau-county-couple-into-affordable-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nassau County<\/a>. The company outlined plans for a 200-megawatt smart microgrid on roughly 1,200 acres near Jacksonville International Airport, with the remaining 400 acres described as \u201cideal\u201d for hyperscale data center development, citing access to power, water and fiber internet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/apr\/14\/nassau-county-pursuing-12-month-moratorium-on-data-center-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nassau County is considering putting a pause on data center development projects within its borders. At a meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-232931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}