Montgomery County passes 18 month pause on data center development | NBC4 Washington
In Washington, District of Columbia (DC), Washington City Council and local residents debated municipal data center siting, utility infrastructure load, water consumption, and zoning rules during the June 15, 2026 session.
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Washington City Council · June 15, 2026
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- Clip 1 · 0:20 Washington City Council Applicant and Economic Development Presentation Developer Representative In support auto captions, uncheckedWater Power & Grid Zoning Tax Abatements
Substantive hearing record before Washington City Council regarding data center siting, utility capacity, and community impacts.
"And it passed unanimously. >> The Montgomery County Council banning new data center development for the next year and a half. >> Nothing will happen until we answer all the questions our community deserves. There are a lot of questions about what happens to the water in the Potomac River, what happens to our utility"
- Clip 2 · 0:48 Washington City Council Official Deliberation Elected Official Questioning auto captions, uncheckedWater Power & Grid Zoning Tax Abatements
Substantive hearing record before Washington City Council regarding data center siting, utility capacity, and community impacts.
">> The vote was a compromise after some council members pushed for a longer moratorium to give the county time to figure out a comprehensive way to deal with hyperscale data centers in the future. >> What we did was personally merge them. And uh we compromised, and we went from 6 months to 2 years, and the compromise was 18 months. >> No data center, no data data center."
- Clip 3 · 1:22 Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
Substantive hearing record before Washington City Council regarding data center siting, utility capacity, and community impacts.
"is doing a comprehensive study on the impacts of data centers. That report is due sometime in September. >> There was a time when data centers received tax incentives to come. Now we're we want to make sure because of the energy usage uh that there's adequate public benefit in addition to protecting our community, and we need to work with the state uh and with this body to make sure that that happens."
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