<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4Sy05K_1Gi1euFu00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4Sy05K_1Gi1euFu00" width="1280" height="720" >AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — The Aurora City Council was unable to pass an indefinite moratorium on data centers last week.The council is now scheduled to vote on the issue again at its Nov. 9 meeting.If the moratorium does not pass, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman said he plans to pursue another strategy at the council’s Nov. 23 meeting.“I want to put some pressure on the council,” Coffman told FOX31.Coffman said his proposal would prohibit the city from accepting new data center applications unless developers provide a letter from an electric utility stating it will serve power to the project.“I think that would be added protection, but this is really about buying time to get our new regulations in place,” Coffman said. “The will serve letter is just a mechanism to buy time that’s definitive. That says, okay, unless this occurs, we’re not going to take your application.”The debate over data centers intensified after residents living near East 48th Avenue and Tibet Road learned that Vantage Data Centers is planning a facility near their neighborhoods.Violet Brooks, who lives in The Reserve at Green Valley Ranch East, said she was caught off guard by the proposal.“Oh, I feel overwhelmed,” Brooks said. “No one ever informed me that there was an industrial zone and that there could be a data center put in.”Brooks said she is part of a group called Join Unite that is working to stop the proposed project from being built near the 55-plus community.“We are going to keep fighting until Vantage decides either to move,” Brooks said. “Then we will start looking at our next steps, which could be retaining legal counsel.”Coffman said he is also trying to persuade Vantage to consider a different location while its application remains under review.He told FOX31 that if those efforts fail, the company would likely have to challenge the city in court.</div></body>

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AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — The Aurora City Council was unable to pass an indefinite moratorium on data centers last week. The council is now scheduled to vote on the issue again at its Nov. 9 meeting. If the moratorium does not pass, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman said he plans...

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