Salisbury Planning Board recommends data center moratorium

The Salisbury Planning Board recommended a one-year moratorium covering applications for and the construction, installation and use of new data centers in Salisbury, Massachusetts. The proposal would amend the town’s zoning bylaw and add a formal definition of a data center.

The recommendation responds to growing local and national concern about the resource demands of large data centers. The article does not indicate that the full town government has adopted the moratorium.