{"id":432540,"date":"2026-10-20T01:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432540\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:04:25","slug":"leon-county-commissioners-approve-data-center-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432540\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County commissioners approve data center moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEON COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Commissioners unanimously approved an 18-month pause on new, large-scale data center applications on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The moratorium puts certain development applications for data centers and other facilities with major utility demands on hold. <\/p>\n<p>Leon County commissioners approve data center moratorium<\/p>\n<p>County officials say the pause, which only applies to unincorporated parts of the county, gives staff time to study the impacts and develop new regulations around the controversial centers. <\/p>\n<p>No large-scale data center applications are currently pending, according to county officials. <\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEON COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Leon County Commissioners unanimously approved an 18-month pause on new, large-scale data center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,509,1289,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-432540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-big-bend","tag-leon-county","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432540","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=432540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}