A meeting to hear community opinions regarding the Woodbury County moratorium on data centers will take place Monday evening in Moville.
The Woodbury County zoning commission will hold the second of three set listening sessions, at 7 p.m. at the Moville Community Center.
The county zoning commission is studying data centers, to give administrative support in 2027 to the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors on how to potentially proceed once the 12-month moratorium ends.
In June, the board of supervisors approved a one-year moratorium on data centers in unincorporated areas. The county board has a goal of getting a fully researched look at all issues associated with data centers.
The first meeting a few weeks ago was well attended at Sloan, Iowa, and the third one next month will be in Salix.
Lots of counties in the three Siouxland states are passing moratoriums concerning the placement of data centers in their counties.
Separately outside any county governance, the Salix City Council declined to place a moratorium on a possible data center in town.
Google, which has many data centers across the nation, announced in early August that the company is in the early stages of evaluating a Salix site for a data center.
