SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 The debate over data centers popping up here in San Antonio and all throughout Texas has prompted calls of regulation from city leaders and the community.<\/p>\n
Tonight District 6 Councilman Ric Galvan hosted a town hall meeting to hear from the community before city council votes on two proposals to regulate data centers.<\/p>\n
Proposal 1 will automatically permit new data centers as long as they are within certain zoning districts that are at least 500 feet away from residential homes, schools, daycares, assisted living facilities, and hospitals.<\/p>\n
Proposal 1 would not require a vote from city council; however, Proposal 2 would require a city council vote. Proposal 2 would also give the community an opportunity to make public comments before the data center would be approved.<\/p>\n
Public commenters at Tuesday\u2019s town hall meeting voiced their concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter hearing what everyone said today it sounds like Proposal 2 needs to be implemented. We have three hospitals in this area. What\u2019s going to happen to the ICU when the electricity goes out, and their generators are not enough?\u201d<\/p>\n
Councilman Galvan says he is also advocating for data centers to only be allowed to use recycled water. The District 6 Councilman says he supports Proposal 2.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think primarily what we should be looking towards is that every data center that comes to San Antonio goes before City Council for a full vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
City Council will vote on the two proposals on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 The debate over data centers popping up here in San Antonio and all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-465640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465640","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=465640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}