EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)–After months of discussion, the El Paso City Council has voted 5-3 to develop best-practice guidelines for future data centers that may come to El Paso.<\/p>\n
The decision comes as construction plans move forward for a new Meta data center in northeast El Paso. While that project is already approved, city leaders say the new framework will help guide similar developments in the future.<\/p>\n
Mayor Renard Johnson has directed the city manager to establish a framework in the coming weeks. The guidelines are expected to address infrastructure needs, resource strain, environmental impacts and long-term community costs associated with data center projects.<\/p>\n
District 4 City Representative Cynthia Boyar Trejo said community input will play a key role in shaping the policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is both needed and necessary to have this discussion to carefully consider the direction of data center development in El Paso,\u201d Boyar Trejo said. \u201cBefore bringing this item forward, I met with members of the community, business community, residents, activists to gain a holistic perspective of opportunities, concerns and the broader implications of this industry. Through these conversations, it became clear that there were some misunderstandings and misconceptions on multiple sides.\u201d<\/p>\n
City leaders say additional public feedback will be considered as the framework is developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)–After months of discussion, the El Paso City Council has voted 5-3 to develop best-practice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-170497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}