Boone holds walkthrough on potential data center
LightEdge is considering a 10-acre data center within the city of Boone, Iowa, and held a community Q&A and walkthrough. City leaders support the potential investment, while some residents say they were left out of the conversation; a separate one-year Boone County data center moratorium does not apply to city-owned or city-controlled property.
LightEdge is proposing a relatively small, 10-acre data center in the city of Boone, Iowa. The company held a walkthrough and question-and-answer session as local officials promoted the project as a potentially wise investment.
Some community members expressed concerns that they had not been included adequately in discussions about the proposal. Boone County previously approved a one-year moratorium on data centers while it considered whether to allow such development, but the restriction applies only to areas under county jurisdiction and not to the proposed city project.