Pasadena Lacks Zoning Rules and Grid Capacity for Data Centers, Committee Learns

The city of Pasadena, California lacks the necessary zoning rules and electrical grid capacity to handle a large-scale data center, according to a briefing presented to the Municipal Services Committee. A single hyperscale data center could consume over a third of Pasadena's current electrical load, but the city has no policy framework or zoning category for data centers. The committee called for immediate action to address these gaps.