Public Health & Environment Committee
TL;DR
Baltimore City Council held an informational hearing on data centers to understand their potential impacts on city infrastructure, environment, and communities. The council requested multiple city departments and state agencies to provide information on best practices for zoning, use standards, and ways to mitigate public health and environmental effects from data center facilities.
Key Decisions
- Informational Hearing on Data Center Community Impact and Use Standards Hearing held; departments directed to appear and report
Agenda
- CALL TO ORDER
- INTRODUCTIONS
- ATTENDANCE
- ITEM SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARING
- 26-0050R Informational Hearing – Data Centers – Community Impact and Use Standards FOR the purpose of inviting the Office of the People’s Counsel and the Public Service Commission and requiring the Department of Planning, Law Department, Department of Finance, Health Department, and the Department of Public Works to appear before the City Council to discuss: (1) the impact a data center may have on Baltimore City’s infrastructure, environment, and its community as a whole; (2) best practices for data center zoning, use standards, and other development standards; and (3) which techniques and technologies are available to limit the public health and environmental impact of these increasingly common facilities.City Council Resolution
- ADJOURNMENT
- THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC