Developer asks court to force Springfield to review data center plans
A developer is asking the court to allow its proposal for a data center to follow the ordinary review process at the city despite Springfield's administrative delay on such projects. After a hearing Friday, Nov. 6, the judge took the matter of a preliminary injunction under advisement, promising to rule on the matter as quickly as possible. Springfield has had an administrative pause in place on all data center proposals since late June. NSI A.1 LLC, managed by Trent Overhue, filed a lawsuit in September against the city claiming the moratorium is invalid and, if found to be valid, does not apply to any ordinary preliminary activities for the project proposed as they are not part of any formal application process. Overhue, who is involved in a number of other data center proposals around the Ozarks, owns the property at 2900 S. National Ave. through the LLC. He has proposed a basement-level "high-performance computing data processing facility" in the larger of two buildings at the location. While the property is zoned for a planned development that allows "data processing services" under the use for Administrative and Professional Offices, differences emerged between Overhue's interpretation of what this would allow and the
