Cave City council agrees to delaying discussion of data center zoning changes

The Cave City Council has enacted a one-year moratorium on discussions regarding data center zoning regulations, a decision made after a heavily attended planning commission meeting. The council chose this pause over advancing proposed zoning amendments tailored for data centers. This development follows an intervention by Kentucky Industrial Alliance LLC, which called on Cave City officials to investigate potential ethics and disclosure issues related to the ongoing discussions about the proposed data center text amendments and regulatory shifts. The debate over data centers is widespread across Kentucky. In April, Franklin Citizens for Responsible Development, Inc. initiated a lawsuit against the City of Franklin Planning and Zoning Commission and several unnamed development entities involved in a data center project in Simpson Circuit Court. Additionally, in Northern Kentucky, an undisclosed company reportedly offered $26 million for approximately 900 acres near Maysville for a large data center campus.